Originally posted in Obics.io If you’re not careful, logging costs can rise up to staggering amounts. Paying 5 or 10 (or more) percent of your cloud host costs for logging is just too much. And let’s be honest, most of the logs are redundant and never queried. But you still need logs just in case, otherwise, you’re blind in production next time there’s an incident. So let’s try to find a middle ground.