I agree that logging suck bollocks, especially when most of the time you really want metrics.

Opentel is great, but sadly A lot of the stuff that I am using doesn't support it.

The thing that made it much more bearable, even easy is loki and a decent log parser.

I know a lot of kids like using SQL to interact with things, loki's explore interface beats the living shit out of SQL (In my opinion) its really simple to just isolate and slice logs interactivly. You can build your query really simply.

It beats splunk/sumo/scuba(facebook's log system) hands down in terms of searchability.