I’m assuming neighboring nodes. Now you’re basically designing replicated (best effort), distributed index - a mini version of google search. This is a clever design but number of companies that can diy it with sufficient quality I can probably count on one hand

For the price of even a modest splunk enterprise setup you can hire half a dozen top notch backend/distributed systems engineers. That’s the opportunity cost of a setup like the one in the article.

Right if talking top notch that’s 3-4M/y alone. Admittedly I’m completely unaware what the splunk’s ballpark rate is (i heard it’s quite high) but still I doubt that very many companies are at that scale. Also in the current market convincing execs to save on something that doesn’t translate directly to cogs can be a challenging proposition =)

I’ve heard this before and it sounds like Splunk’s margins are just way too high. Why doesn’t someone sell a logging platform that’s cheaper than writing your own at scale?