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Discussion on: What tools do you use for monitoring?

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Stefan Dorresteijn

Quick update to this. We're using ELK as well as Timber for our backend logging now.

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jorin

any specific reason why timber was not sufficient anymore?

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Stefan Dorresteijn

We wanted a self-hosted logging solution that allowed us to quickly generate dashboards from our logs.

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jorin

Thanks for the reply1 So it was about not being locked-in to a vendor and/or to be more flexible?

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Stefan Dorresteijn

Yep, pretty much. That and we wanted to own the data entirely without it going to a third party.

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jorin

totally understandable! thanks :)