[bbrazil]

> I can understand the reasoning behind them building for a single node. Building distributed systems is hard, not everyone is capable of building these systems. They also require languages and frameworks suited to working in clusters. Golang might not scale too well, but its great for the simple things.

I'd say we're up to it, and Go is a great language for this class of system. We're however wise enough to know that even with the best people and tools this would take years to get production ready.

> So if your "network falls apart" you have no historical data? I guess thats fine if you're not alerting on data trends, and also have 10 minutes for your graphs to render.

Yes, you'd lose access to historical data (typically more than a few weeks ago). But everything else works, which should include the vast majority of your alerts.