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A discussion platform's log volume grows faster than its traffic and now costs more than the compute generating it. What is driving the growth, and what should change?

A platform team stops shipping logs from inside each application process to the log vendor and instead writes JSON to stdout for a node agent to collect. Crash-time logs now survive and the request path no longer touches the network. What has the team given up, and when does that bill arrive?

Your logging bill has tripled alongside traffic growth. Name four changes in order of effectiveness.