[Szpadel]

what are tested and fairly lightweight alternatives for Loki?

elastic stack is so heavy it's out of question for smaller clusters, loki integration with grafana is nice to have but separate capable dashboard would be also fine

[valyala]

VictoriaLogs - https://www.truefoundry.com/blog/victorialogs-vs-loki

[prabhatsharma]

OpenObserve would be the simplest and most performant