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I expect it would be far cheaper to scale up tempo/loki than it would be to even run an idle kafka cluster. This feels like spending thousands of dollars to sav

I expect it would be far cheaper to scale up tempo/loki than it would be to even run an idle kafka cluster. This feels like spending thousands of dollars to save tens of dollars.

neetle 3y ago
Tempo can still buckle under huge bursts of traffic, and you don’t need the retention to be in the hours
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pranay01 3y ago
Querying in Tempo/Loki does seem to not scale particularly well, and Loki has known issues with high cardinality data, so...
ankitnayan 3y ago
When handling surges of the order of 10x, it's much more difficult to scale the different components of loki than to write them to Kafka/Redpanda first and consume at a consistent rate.
Spivak 3y ago
Where are you finding such an expensive Kafka cluster? Kafka can run on 3 VPS's in a trenchcoat.