You get paid for outcomes.

It’s only a matter of time before DataDog builds this into their product, among other logging systems.

I got paid to make a simple tool and some standard conventions to make log wading. Between gateway events with errors in BPMN and correlation ids auto logged in every message, it’s pretty easy to figure out where in 40 services something blew up that failed our process.

Yes, because it's both useful and tedious. If it becomes just useful but not tedious, the price goes down but I'm also free to take on other tasks. If this happens to enough tasks, perhaps there will be need for less of us.

I'm not sure what you're suggesting but it adds no value to the discussion.

So if a fake dog can log dive, does that mean the current log divers are... live dogs?

Now I finally understand why people say SRE is a dog-eat-dog world.