For pure servers, what you say is easy and yes, almost exclusively, the preferred option. The tricky situations usually occur in CI, where you script together a

For pure servers, what you say is easy and yes, almost exclusively, the preferred option. The tricky situations usually occur in CI, where you script together a lot of weird tools, most of them originally designed to be run by hands on developers workstation, where they want to see local timestamps and never had time to implement log config. Some days you can consider yourself lucky if the log files have any timestamps at all.