### CloudWatch is a valuable tool for monitoring and logging AWS workloads, but it has limitations such as cost, retention, and only supporting AWS services. To extend log analytics beyond CloudWatch, teams should centralize data across clouds, collect and analyze all log data, store data efficiently and cost-effectively, fine-tune alarms, and make log data actionable with more powerful tools like ChaosSearch. By doing so, they can achieve a complete log analytics and cloud monitoring strategy that offers features like multicloud support, sophisticated alert configuration, storage flexibility, and more.