While I myself use Loki for log aggregation for a small web service that I run, and have gotten a lot of value out of it, I agree with the author that the produ

While I myself use Loki for log aggregation for a small web service that I run, and have gotten a lot of value out of it, I agree with the author that the product is not friendly to use. It's notoriously difficult to know why ingestion of certain logs failed, to the point where I run a staging monitoring environment to debug issues like these.