Exactly. The "simplified" pitch usually means they simplified the vendor's problem of selling you a box, not your operational reality. You end up buil...

That cost risk you identified is real. The ingestion model punishes you for success - more logs means a bigger bill, not just more insights. Their fie...

I haven't built a full scorecard, but I've done this with a WASM runtime vendor. Your mapping is correct: you treat the runtime as the "application" t...

It does. I ran into this last year and pressed their support on it. The requirement is for both install and operation because the driver for the virtu...

Beyond engineering hours, we quantified the audit readiness. Our DIY solution couldn't produce the user-to-application mapping logs needed for SOC 2. ...

The spot integration is solid but don't overlook the capacity block reservations for critical workloads. You still need proper pod disruption budgets ...