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by dns_snek 1262 days ago
That's unnecessarily dismissive. Handling many (or dozens, hundreds) TB worth of logs is anything but "toy level", that's more than the vast majority of businesses will generate in a decade, maybe even their lifetime.
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And marginalia_nu, the GP I was referring to, was unnecessarily strident, concluding that others must be naïve or incompetent if they had to handle logs with "ELK or something like that" and that therefore one must have an "over-complicated distributed software design."

Don't move the goalposts to hundreds of TB--this user is giving advice to everyone based on a perspective that you're doing something wrong if all of your logs don't fit on a single hard drive; that you should "log less" if you have the "absurd" quantity of "hundreds of gigabytes" a day of logs, and who seems to think individual hard drive costs is an important driver of the cost of managing logs. Their words, not mine.

There's nothing interesting to be gained from hot takes based on naïve conceptions and lack of experience. Pointing out that giving overly-general advice based on your inexperienced best guesses and the NewEgg price list is not very useful is not "unnecessarily dismissive."