> I think some of the posts here miss a little bit of the context as to why things like this happen in the first place. There were always a bunch of bad decisi

> I think some of the posts here miss a little bit of the context as to why things like this happen in the first place. There were always a bunch of bad decisions and a few good one in hindsight. I think it's completely fair to discuss solutions (including more recent tech like ELK) to the problem even more so if the problem still exists. > Yes, SQL's a poor fit for logs, but it's a better fit then a lot of other things, including not logging at all. No I disagree, not logging 40 TB of data to SQL would have been at least an equally good if not better choice, based on the input we have from the blog post. Just keep the past few weeks of raw traffic logs and be fine.