Kubernetes Architect | Integration Expert | TIBCO Guru

Log management and observability are no longer a matter of “storing text and searching it quickly.” In 2026, the real challenge is economic and architectural: ingesting growing volumes, retaining data for months, correlating logs with metrics and traces, and responding during an incident without costs spiraling out of control. For years, Elasticsearch was the dominant option. Then came OpenSearch, Loki, Quickwit and, with significant momentum, ClickHouse as an analytical backend. All of them can solve part of the problem, but they do not optimize for the same things. The senior decision should not be “which one is faster” in the…