They have nap pods, full restaurants, and snack bars, and “fun” office spaces so you don’t want to leave the office.

Someone I knew worked there and wouldn’t actually buy groceries. He just at at the office for all his meals. He didn’t own a car. Rode his bike down or used public transportation.

It saved him like several hundred per month.

They know this and will try to use it as a way to suck you in and keep you in the office longer.

I thought Apple lost this war already?

I did previously and had to wait until a weekday to talk to someone. It was a huge pain. Fuck those agencies.

Google Chrome is about to be disabled? Got it.

Poor practices. They focused on shorr term gains over quality.

I like it because I use it for MELT in general. Prometheus generally does metrics and if you want to include logs, traces and events, it becomes more cumbersome. With the Otel collector, I can just update my collector configuration to point to the various services.

I’m not saying OP can’t use what you suggested, just stating what I would use.

I would use OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana…

It definitely has nothing to do with the outrageous starting price range.