Ask HN: Logging infra usefulness on public cloud

Dev/Sec/Ops here. Small-sized MSP using GCP & AWS across multi-cloud regions, and using AWS CloudWatch & CloudTrail logs, Stackdriver for logging, alerting, errors, etc. We're finding limited usefulness of this logging infrastructure. Wondering if its just me!

As DevOps, I really find StackDriver logging UI not much useful to scroll through. For one thing, it is really slow. Secondly, I find service name & service acronyms very annoying. Not just StackDriver, but AWS too.

- Other than debugging, what purpose do logging serve?

- What are some tools that you use to dice & slice logging data to make some meaning?

- How do you extract actual errors while alerting?