[remus]

> but I'm regularly forced into what's apparently called "Google Cloud's operations suite" to grovel through logs

Is this google cloud logging? If so, personally I quite like it, especially for looking through logs from multiple sources at the same time. Being able to put all your logs through there, and then search them with a simple query language, feels very convenient.

[pas]

it's ridiculously slow. and compared to how expensive it is ... it's robbery in daylight.