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What do you like best?
Logz.io provides a varity of different ways to ship your logs. They have log shipping options in the form of SDKs, log shipping daeoms, and cloud integrations, particularly with AWS. These optios are very robust and make it pretty easy to leverage Logz.io with your application. They documentation is also very helpful and does a good job clearing up any confusion or uncertainty. They've also release a limited Terraform provider for their platform which is super helpful if you are leveraging Terraform for any of your cloud resources. They support staff are top notch and get back to you very quickly. They have builtin parsers for many popular applications such as Nginx or MySQL which saves you the work of having to build a parser yourself.
What do you dislike?
While Logz.io has very competitive pricing, it required you to purchase average daily log volume. If you exceed that log volume for a 24 hour period, you are unable to ingest anymore logs for the remainder of that 24 hour period. I would much rather pay for log volume on a continous usage or just pay an addition amount for the excess log volume. I feel like most users wouldn't be happy with having a tempoarary loss of logging.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would check their documentation and see what SDKs and application integrations they provide. Changes are they provide a method for shipping logs that is compatiable with your current use case. They are pretty easy to get up and running with.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
I using Logz.io for application logging of a micro-service platform. It makes logging and monitoring containerized applications very easy. This has been vital for both rutine operations and for debugging during development activities.