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by jimbobimbo 848 days ago
It exactly is a structured log or log in open telemetry.

To make it easier for myself, I think of spans also as structured logs with a schema that everyone had agreed on, which make it possible to trace requests across multiple services/clients. It's probably more than that, but I don't need academic precision to see how this is more useful during livesite investigations than simply querying logs with unaligned schemas.
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isburmistrov 848 days ago
Yes, structured log exactly. Why I prefer "wide event" as a term because it has this "wide" component that serves for 2 purposes:

- it highlights the intention of storing as much context as possible - it also hints on the implementation for a system that would serve them. One likely need to use columnar storage to store wide events, there is no way around it

But just a personal preference in the end.

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