I didn't say such tools don't exist. Honeycomb, mentioned in the post, is exactly Scuba fwiw.
I said that over-focusing on traces / metrics and "logs" (in the classical understanding) hides the true power of wide events, and they're not being used widely.
Also IMO open-ended query language doesn't help in quick exploration, it's a barrier. UI and easiness of use is the paramount for adoption. To achieve arbitrary queries one can dump everything to smth like ClickHouse and query it with SQL. This would be a nice addition to any observability stack, to cover for a small percentage of the very deep explorations.
Also IMO open-ended query language doesn't help in quick exploration, it's a barrier. UI and easiness of use is the paramount for adoption. To achieve arbitrary queries one can dump everything to smth like ClickHouse and query it with SQL. This would be a nice addition to any observability stack, to cover for a small percentage of the very deep explorations.