Yep, if you can afford it make it someone else's problem. No team should need to have dedicated OPs people that are responsible for keeping the logging platform

Yep, if you can afford it make it someone else's problem. No team should need to have dedicated OPs people that are responsible for keeping the logging platform running. This is a solved problem and costs the company more in engineering time (paying a person to do the job) than the Saas solution. E.g. 30K/month isn't much when you compare it to paying a sole engineer 15K/year + cloud costs of hosting your own logging solution + any licenses. There's also a slim chance the home grown logging platform will be as resilient as a Saas product. I for one am very grateful to DataDog's support team as they've been very helpful in debugging logging problems we've had in the past.