- We want to observe our systems. Sometimes we may want a log with messages in it, other times just a metric is fine. BUT the times we want either of these can be arbitrary... don't want to have to make a release of an app just because we're in the middle of an incident and want more detailed logs of something.
- Want to untangle next-metrics from express
- BUT ideally want any new thing to be reasonably backwards compatible
- collects both logs & metrics in a unified interface