[daurnimator]

I expect it would be far cheaper to scale up tempo/loki than it would be to even run an idle kafka cluster. This feels like spending thousands of dollars to save tens of dollars.

[pranay01]

Querying in Tempo/Loki does seem to not scale particularly well, and Loki has known issues with high cardinality data, so...

[neetle]

Tempo can still buckle under huge bursts of traffic, and you don’t need the retention to be in the hours

[ankitnayan]

When handling surges of the order of 10x, it's much more difficult to scale the different components of loki than to write them to Kafka/Redpanda first and consume at a consistent rate.

[Spivak]

Where are you finding such an expensive Kafka cluster? Kafka can run on 3 VPS's in a trenchcoat.