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Fwiw, you should able to answer #1 and #2 without hitting the main db if you've got good observability into your system.


Observability data comes from a drumroll database! Most analytics products that can answer these questions are just time series data warehouses.


a database, obviously, but are you really storing metrics and logs next to customer data in the same database, or did you skip over the part where I used the word “main”?




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