System Requirements
- Reliable backpressure-safe log ingestion agents
- Log indexing with configurable retention tiers (7 days hot, 90 days warm, 1 yr cold)
- Real-time alerting triggers on error spikes
- Full-text log search with filtering by service, trace ID, and log level
Graded Constraints
01Cost under $8,000/month
02Message queue buffer (Kafka) to decouple producers from indexing speed
03Log processing / enrichment worker nodes
04Search Engine cluster for fast querying
05Object storage for cold log archival
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