> Sometimes when browsing documentation for a service or API you will find that the old way is deprecated, but the new way that they recommend you use is still in beta or alpha (!).
Familiar.
Familiar.
There is a terrific explanation of the difference between Alpha, Beta, and Stable in the Istio project [0].
Istio was started by GCP, so while this isn’t officially Google’s definition I imagine it’s peobably the same.
It basically says, Beta is mostly usable in production, but things might change in the future that require work from you to upgrade.
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.
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).