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Metro 2039's return to the underground plays like the sneaky FPS you'd expect, but there are still good reasons to leave the beaten track

Since I’m apparently now RPS’ Radioactive Eastern Europe correspondent , I recently spent a couple of hours in Metro 2039 , the gloom ‘n’ grit FPS sequel that Ukrainian developers 4A Games have explicitly styled as a return to the series’ roots. From what I’ve played, it is in fact as much of a hybrid as the mutated shrimp-insects that lurk in its Moscow sewers, reviving the claustrophobic tunnel…

Metro 2039's return to the underground plays like the sneaky FPS you'd expect, but there are still good reasons to leave the beaten track

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Loki Retention Tuning: 7 Fixes for Runaway Log Storage Costs

Originally published on kuryzhev.cloud Your Loki bill isn't growing because of log volume — it's growing because someone added a trace_id label back in 2024 and nobody ever removed it.

  • Treat retentionperiod separately for different log sources
  • Reduce cardinality by auditing unique label combinations
  • Enable compactor and tune retentionperiod settings

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