I think “expensive” here is basically relative to revenue/margin. Where margins are high, spending on Splunk (etc.) isn’t meaningful. Where margins are thin, it hurts.

Basically, the arguments here seem to reflect the markets and business model folks are working under. Some pay, some can’t and some won’t - all valid.

Right tool for the right job. Splunk is for mega-scale setups

I guess you'd appreciate the words easily and bit are doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

This goes with the previous comment:

> And oh yeah, it's totally free instead of costing my company thousands of dollars a year

Unless you work for free, then something you make and maintain is not "totally free".

I havent developed it yet. But my Splunk killer solutions actually scales so big we can use it to walk to the center of the universe. And its only 1 line of Rust and a bash script that runs when ever the Unix clock has 420 in the number string.