Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era.

Platform Engineering

Ran small ElasticSearch clusters on top of k8s ~3 years back and wouldn't do it again :sweat_smile:

(ran medium-sized clusters on VMs also before and after that time)

if you're using it for log analytics / observability and are open to alternatives, check out ChaosSearch (same API/UI, different backend with all data persisted in cloud storage, removing management pain, cost &amp; retention trade-offs esp. at scale). disclaimer: i work there, so feel free to DM if you want to know more

My experience was manage the retention of logs per the need, make/enable the query easier for devs to comprehend, and some enterprise level feature requires you to subscribe for gold license atleast etc