Also familiar: monitoring frontend is tragic-comic with no units and inscrutable data. It’s cute that the author thinks the internal version must be a lot better!
On the other hand, the article doesn’t mention Stackdriver Profiler, which has an amazing UX. Definitely recommended if you are spending significant money on CPU at GCE.
What’s the long term plan here with StackDriver and OpenCensus?
Are you eventually going to support high cardinality events with the ability to aggregate and then break down (as opposed to say Prometheus which pre-aggregates, so you can’t break down to debug, and doesn’t support high cardinality).
On the other hand, the article doesn’t mention Stackdriver Profiler, which has an amazing UX. Definitely recommended if you are spending significant money on CPU at GCE.