[karmarepellent]

As other commenters already suggested I think it just comes down to what your actual day-to-day job is. In some companies you have dedicated data engineers whose job it is to understand these complex logging systems. But despite the complexity they may still derive value from it since they are deeply involved in writing SomeQL queries pretty much all day.

At my place of work we do not derive much value from our ELK installation, because we do not interact with it every day. But since everyone is used to grep, awk to some extent from other activities, these are the tools that are used when incidents/bugs happen and the cause has to be found.

As with all the other stuff out there, ELK etc. may simply not be for everyone.

[valyala]

I actively use grep, cat, uniq, sort, less and other Unix commands every day. That's why I added good integration with Unix pipes into VictoriaLogs, since it may cover missing functionality [1].

[1] https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/querying/#comm...