[lillecarl]

I think what you're saying is that you can make a logging system LARP metrics. At the end it's logging on fd 1 and 2 and metrics are usually over http, but ofc you can dump "metrics" into stout, it's not as practical with what tools are built for what.

In my local fun projects that run on my machine I might dump metrics into the logs because it's practical, but it doesn't make it "right".

[danpalmer]

I log over RPC and send metrics over RPC, thinking about logs being to a file descriptor and metrics being over HTTP is focusing too much on a particular implementation and not enough on the concepts.

Also it's not about logs role playing as metrics, I'm saying you can literally turn one into the other, in both cases, and there are valid use cases for that.