[jon-wood]

This is exactly what I do, currently my main coding project at work is a library to improve our tracking of system level metrics across applications. If I get some time I can add a few more things that suddenly get tracked across multiple projects, making debugging easier in the future, and if I don't nobody really notices.

[WrtCdEvrydy]

If you can hook into one of your upstream, this becomes even easier.

We call this the '@companynamespace' layer, includes wrappers for internal APIs, and additional sugar we use everywhere (AWS, status, metrics)

[jon-wood]

That's much what I'm doing, a standard set of utilities that any service can depend on and use without thinking too much about it.