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When I suggest that people will game whatever metrics we put in place, I'm often met with shocked indignation. We would never game the numbers! And yet we do.

I took my car in for service this morning and I was asked if it was ok that they split the bill across two transactions. "You're being measured on number of cars through?" I asked. The answer was obviously yes, and this way I counted as two cars.

It's not just a matter that the numbers are now wrong, we have now introduced waste into the system. There were two credit card transactions rather than one. Two receipts instead of one. There was additional time for the workers to explain why they wanted to do it this way. Overall, this was complete waste, but because they felt they were being judged on the count of cars through, it was justified.

If people think that they'll be judged based on measurements then they'll game those. The more judgement, the more the numbers will be inaccurate, and the more waste will be introduced into the overall system.

You might think that I'm opposed to measuring anything then but that's not at all true. I'm a big proponent of measuring those things we want to improve. I'm just a realist and recognize that we have to design our measurements very carefully. If we measure the wrong things, or in the wrong way, we'll drive the wrong behaviours and that's our problem to solve.

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“Injuries occur when we make changes in our #running #biomechanics or #training regimen without understanding what each of the #metrics means or how it can impact how your body moves and adapts”

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Good news! After some fiddling and understanding the repository layout I finally have working OpenTelemetry Collector packages for @opensuse!

Packages for the "core" or "classic" collector, the contrib distribution and the otlp distribution are working fine in my tests and have been submitted to the server:monitoring devel project. This includes the packages required to build them.

Here is a vagrant-libvirt setup to play around with the packages (three branches currently).

codeberg.org/johanneskastl/ope
github.com/johanneskastl/opent

Once I find some information on how to use the ebpf-profiler distribution, I will test that package and add a branch for it.

Codeberg.orgopentelemetry-collector_opensuse_vagrant_libvirt_ansibleVagrant-libvirt setup that creates a VM with the OpenTelemetry Collector (using the packages I created for openSUSE)