Comment by mekster

Are people actually required to use ELK? What are your use cases?

The interface is completely cluttered and it takes loads of resource and it feels like it's waiting to be replaced with lighter and more focused products.

Graylog (though it uses Elasticsearch internally) does a decent job at log handling and creating all the visual items out of logs and Grafana/Loki can do quite good at it as well with a very small memory footprint.

Besides, most of the "business intelligences" aren't actionable but just some visual arts you wouldn't need but to stare at when you're bored.