Distributed logging

Move logs from thousands of processes into one searchable place, fast enough to debug a live incident and cheap enough to keep for months. Getting it wrong is a classic "ignore failure" miss: the logging pipeline is itself a distributed system that buckles under the exact traffic spike you most need it during, and a naive design either drops the evidence or takes down the app it instruments.

When to reach for this

More than one process emits logs and someone needs to search them together; an incident requires correlating a request across services; log volume has outgrown grep on a box; or compliance demands retention. The pipeline buys central search, cross-service correlation, and a durable record decoupled from any single host.