You'd be surprised how many companies with infra that small have CTOs get consultant buzzword pilled into buying every SaaS under the sun nonetheless...

How many servers does Stack overflow run on? It’s not a good measure of data volume or criticality.

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.

But you definitely want to, even if it simple ELK stack