[flaminHotSpeedo]

The whole point of wide events is recording an arbitrary set of key value pairs. How do you propose storing that in a columnar datastore?

[phillipcarter]

I can't speak for others, but at Honeycomb that's what we do. There's some details in this blog post that might be interesting: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/why-observability-requires-dis...