I think any of Logging/Monitoring/Metrics at scale can be thought of as Chicken & Egg problems.
They are important, hard to do well and have a bad habit of only causing issues which swallow engineering time when you are firefighting furiously trying to scale core services.
That's why as someone pointed out separately Spunk is a $5Bn company and people who have had these problems previously are very excited by this news.
(It's also why StatsD&Graphite/OpenTSDB, Riemann/Sensu etc etc are all super interesting)
They are important, hard to do well and have a bad habit of only causing issues which swallow engineering time when you are firefighting furiously trying to scale core services.
That's why as someone pointed out separately Spunk is a $5Bn company and people who have had these problems previously are very excited by this news.
(It's also why StatsD&Graphite/OpenTSDB, Riemann/Sensu etc etc are all super interesting)