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Comment by martypitt | Hacker News Reader

> A combination of Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki allowed us to replicate — and in some ways exceed — the visibility we had on AWS

Given these existence of these tools, which are fantastic, I'm often stunned at how sluggish, expensive and how lacklustre the UX is of the AWS monitoring stack.

Monitoring quickly became the most expensive, and most unpleasant part of our AWS experience.

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When I discovered that Live Tail (an equivalent of looking at the logs with `tail -f ...`) is paid, I laughed out loud. The most obvious functionality for everyday looking at logs is not free. CW is pain.

I don't mean that in an offensive way, but if your amount of logs is so small that you can live tail them, you don't operate at the scale that AWS cares about.

It's paid because operating that feature at AWS' scale is expensive as hell. Maybe not for your project, but for 90% of their customers it is.

If you were to divide the AWS customer base into a 10% bucket and a 90% bucket, a 90% bucket would not be the ones needing the infinite scale of AWS.

You can specify filters in Live Tail, if I read the docs right. So seeing live logs from one transaction id or one user should be possible. This is definitely useful. Searching through gigs/s of logs in order to perform that could be expensive - sure. This just feels wrong to me anyway. CW is already pricy.

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