Delete Your Log Database
Why the AI era needs cheap, sovereign, scale-to-zero log search and why ELK and Loki can’t give it to you
For years, the smartest thing you could do with old logs was to delete them.
A human was only going to look at the last few hours anyway. Keeping a month of logs searchable meant paying for hot storage and for nodes that almost nobody used. So retention windows shrank to 7, 14, maybe 30 days. The rest went to a bucket that nobody could search, and everyone moved on. It was the rational choice.
It is not anymore. Three things changed at the same time. Together, they turn long and searchable retention from a niche compliance problem into a general engineering problem. And the two default open source answers, ELK and Grafana Loki, are not designed to solve it at a reasonable cost.
Three forces are breaking your logging...
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