[lelanthran]

> In the end, what's the difference between a log and a metric?

The goals. The goals of the activity is the difference.

The goal of logging is diagnostics and trouble-shooting (when did this break, how often do we see this type of failure, etc).

The goal of metrics is to aid in capacity planning (are we close to running out of RAM, do we exceed 80% CPU too often, etc).

> You and the other commenters have given me the vocabulary to dig more into this area on the internet though.

Read this first; it is a short read (taxonomy of logging, basically): https://www.lelanthran.com/chap10/content.html