2 days ago
Thurs Jun 12, 2025 3:11pm PST
Ask HN: Is anyone doing intelligent tiering for logs?
You might be familiar with Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/intelligent-tiering/. It automatically moves data to cheaper storage tiers when it hasn’t been accessed for a while.

I’m wondering if a similar approach could work for observability data — especially logs. Hot storage is expensive, and much of the data may not be queried after a short period. Moving unused logs to warm or cold storage (or dropping them) could potentially save a lot.

Has anyone tried this kind of tiering or aging strategy for logs or metrics? Would love to hear how you approached it — tools, heuristics, lessons learned. Thoughts and speculation are also very welcome!

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