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Why it matters: Dashboard analytics are functional but less polished than commercial observability platforms for executive reporting
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Why it matters: UI performance degrades noticeably with very large trace volumes (millions of traces)
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Why it matters: ClickHouse dependency for self-hosting adds operational complexity compared to PostgreSQL-only setups
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Why it matters: Documentation can lag behind feature releases, especially for newer evaluation and dataset features
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