[VBprogrammer]

Metrics are useless in my experience for figuring out a problem. For the most part they only tell you that you have a problem. Being able to slice and dice logs that you have faith in is critical in my experience.

[intelVISA]

problem_counter: 1

[_kb]

days_since_problem compresses better if you have long streams of '0'.

[KaiserPro]

Yeah you still need logs, but as a last line.

Metrics tell you when and what went wrong, but unless you've got lots of coverage, its less likely to tell you _why_