[regnerba]

We run a full Grafana stack (Loki, tempo, Prometheus, alloy agent, Grafana) and back out with self hosted S3 (we are all onprem physical hardware).

While I do like the stack we have, it is a lot of components to run and configure. Don’t think we have ever had any issues once it was up and running.

Does anyone have any thoughts about how this compares? We don’t have a huge amount of days, 1 month of metrics is about 200GB and logs isn’t a whole lot more, less than a TB I think for 2 weeks.

[valyala]

200GB of metrics and 1TB of logs can be efficiently processed by a single-node observability solution optimized for metrics/logs (for example, VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaLogs), which runs on a low-end computer such as Raspberry Pi. There is zero sense in complicating the system with clustering, micro-service architecture and object storage for such a small-scale workload :)