Log aggregation retention cost conversation
Overview
“Store everything forever” bankrupts—you must tier logs.
Tiers
Hot 30 days full detail; warm 180 summarized; cold archive compliance subset.
Sales talk
“Compliance needs X months of auth logs—not 4K camera JPEG metadata forever.”
Technical
Sample debug logs aggressively in dev environments only.
Review
Quarterly GB/day cost per client; right-size after major app rollouts.
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