wide-events

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name: wide-events description: Conceptual guide to wide events (canonical log lines) for observability. Use when thinking about instrumentation strategy, span annotations, or designing what context to capture.

optimize(querying) ∧ ¬optimize(writing)

annotate(span, context) where context = { business ∪ user ∪ technical ∪ outcome }

high-dimensionality → better-queryability high-cardinality(userId) → acceptable

∀ span → attach(identity ∪ user ∪ business ∪ performance ∪ outcome)

¬queryable → ¬enough-context

Reference: See Article.md for full article by Boris Tane (loggingsucks.com)