I think both these tools are more on the easy side of setting up if you follow their guidelines. You can be up and running very quickly. The problems arise when

I think both these tools are more on the easy side of setting up if you follow their guidelines. You can be up and running very quickly. The problems arise when you need some custom logic in processing log files. If you have simple shipping requiremts you can bypass logstash altogether . Elastic and opensearch are not the right tool for application metrics though in my opinion, for that use case just use prometheus and grafana.