Honestly Loki and Promtail are so easy to setup, and jump into not just tailing and searching but incorporating logs into Grafana dashboards (you are using Graf

Honestly Loki and Promtail are so easy to setup, and jump into not just tailing and searching but incorporating logs into Grafana dashboards (you are using Grafana already to monitor host and service metrics, right?), that they make sense to run for everything but the smallest scale deployment (that is, a single service on a single node).