In my last post I talked about why modern observability has become so expensive. At the end of the post I posit a question: What if by default we never send any telemetry at all? In this post I’m going to talk specifically about the perceived need of storing all possible telemetry data. Is this a real need? Or is this an idea that has been drilled into us for so long that we think there’s no other possible way of doing it? If we can break away from the disconcerting idea that all possible teleme...