Why build in this age when too many open source solutions backed by opentelemetry standard are available. Use fluentbit/vector/otel-collector to capture data and send to some open source solution.
Because I find all that stuff to be even more mental overhead to learn and work with, and super annoying to deploy and manage. It would literally take me longer to get one of those kinds of tools to work on my data the way I want it than it took me to make my own tool that does exactly what I want, exactly the way I want it, where it's incredibly trivial for me to add new kinds of logs or anything else.
When you have a hugely complex, made by committee, enterprise-grade generic system/protocol like opentelemetry that does anything and everything, at any scale, it's always going to have huge amount of excess complexity when you are trying to do a specific simple thing well and quickly. It would be harder to figure out the config files for that stuff than it was to just make my own system.
