> for example, there's no way to easily answer questions like "How many requests did server X generate between 1pm and 2pm and how many of them were served by s

> for example, there's no way to easily answer questions like "How many requests did server X generate between 1pm and 2pm and how many of them were served by server Y?" There's many ways to answer that using data streamed over Kafka - ingest it into your preferred query engine, go query it. Kafka is a distributed log, that's it.