Scuba kinda sounds like what Loki and other “modern” log aggregation tools do: A message field and lots of metadata that is efficiently stored so queries are fast. I do understand the poster’s frustration with the “three pillars”, and agree that Open telemetry feels over-engineered at times (seriously… what’s “baggage”?). But the three pillars really do all have a place! While we absolutely can generate stats from logs, the storage improvements alone from leveraging a TSDB are worth it as we scale. And tracing gives incredibly unique insight into the path a request takes through our systems.