Log pipelines, cost and retention
Move logs from containers to storage without losing data or money: collectors (OpenTelemetry Collector, Fluent Bit, Vector), storage choices (Loki, OpenSearch, ClickHouse), redaction at the edge, sampling, tiered retention, access control and deletion, with config sketches and a cost model.
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You now emit one clean JSON event per request (structured logging). The next question is where those events go: how they are collected, scrubbed, stored, searched, kept and eventually deleted, without becoming your biggest infrastructure bill or your biggest privacy risk.
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