[redleggedfrog]

You're proving my point. None of those bullets are even considerations - they're problems in search of money. The initial solution was implemented by someone who didn't bother to notice everything else on this system was using scheduled tasks (or services and Quartz) to do their work. The didn't bother to notice that there was already Serilog setup to do reporting to another system that the customer was already using to monitor processes. They didn't bother to look for the local storage that was available. Instead they purchased a Kafka instance at the company's cost and threw tech at it. Oh, and then quit and got a different job, before writing any docs.

My solution integrated with current tech, didn't have any of the problems outlined in those bullet points, and has required 0 maintenance and or updates for over 4 years. I don't want to even think about how many Kafka and couch releases there have been since then.