Designing Cost-Efficient and Sustainable Log Pipelines With Rsyslog
For readers who prefer a compact Computer Science style model of the concepts discussed, you will find a concise CS summary at the end of this article.
Modern logging pipelines generate far more data than most platforms can process cost-effectively. Commercial SIEMs, cloud logging services, and large-scale analytics backends typically use pricing models tied to events per second (EPS) or ingest volume. Every unnecessary log message therefore increases cost, CPU load, network traffic, and energy consumption.
Rsyslog provides a flexible architecture that helps control these effects long before data reaches expensive systems. This article explains how rsyslog can be used to build leaner, cheaper, and more sustainable log pipelines without losing the visibility required for operations or compliance.
