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One thing about grafana, though, is that you get logs, metrics and monitoring in the same package. You can use loki as the actual log store and it's easy to integrate it with the likes of journald and docker.
Yes, you will have to spend more time learning LogQL, but it can be very handy where you don’t have metrics (or don’t want to implement them) and still want some useful data from logs.
After all, text logs are just very raw, unstructured events in time. You may think that you only look into them very occasionally when things break and you would be correct. But if you want to alert on them, oftentimes that means you’re going from raw logs to structured data. Loki's LogQL does that, and it's still ten times easier to manage than the elastic stack.
VictoriaMetrics has its own logging product too, now, and while I didn’t try it yet, VM for metrics is probably the best thing ever happened since Prometheus. Especially for resource constrained homelabs.