For me, I don't use Datadog so it's not that $ParticularTool does not work with logs, it's all stuff I put in my original post, it's a ton of samples, filtering puts heavy strain on the systems and it's extremely brittle IME.
If you have good metrics, you can generally get much further not even logging aggregating outside tossing everything into STDOUT and checking on it when you have alerts.
If you have good metrics, you can generally get much further not even logging aggregating outside tossing everything into STDOUT and checking on it when you have alerts.