I really didn't expect to get this many passionate opinions on the matter. It took me some time to... build up the courage to read through all of your answers,

I really didn't expect to get this many passionate opinions on the matter. It took me some time to... build up the courage to read through all of your answers, and you have been of tremendous help. I've learned quite a lot. Thank you very much! I deeply appreciate it! I'll steer clear of self-hosted ELK, for now, mostly because being the only backend, I can't really take the risk of holding the whole team back while getting it up and running or maintaining it. I'll look into Splunk, Sumo Logic, Sentry & a few others, while keeping in mind the more general guidelines that were laid down here. Also, thank you for the terminology! It's much easier to find the proper resources know that I know what to look for! Edit: I'll also take some time to answer to the different comments; but it really felt rude of me to be procrastinating while you all had taken the time to properly answer