At small scale any log store works; at scale the invoice decides, not the feature list. The four dominant logging backends make fundamentally different storage bets that fix their cost-per-GB and what queries are even fast. A deep dive on the index-everything camp versus the cheap-storage camp, and the ingest discipline that beats all of them.
Splunk
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Modern Logging Architecture: Loki, Splunk, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, and the Cost-Per-GB That Decides Everything