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I’ve recently added telemetry to some “toy” apps at my house because a power outage or other unforeseen issue has caused things like my Siri enabled garage doors to stop working. Now I get alerts through grafana and telegram for basically free which comes in handy.





A garage door is a security concern.

For a game, a solution that simply restarts the container if it’s down solves the issue. You can mount game logs in a volume if you want, and you can see resource usage in container host dashboard. What value do detailed system metrics bring?

Furthermore, you don’t care what software you run to make your garage door system Siri-enabled, as long as it does its job and is not vulnerable; whereas with a game that adds new gameplay features multiple times per month, you do want to update it frequently. Babysitting a snowflake server makes it way more difficult than it should be.




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