To understand the value of logs in modern enterprises, picture a big puzzle with billions of digital records capturing various events. Data teams collect and normalize logs to correlate events, describe patterns, and identify anomalies, which helps control IT operations, reduce security risk, and enable compliance. However, rising log volumes can overwhelm architectures such as the ELK stack, leading to performance issues and increased costs. To address this, enterprises need more efficient ways to index, search, and query log files, especially for AI/ML algorithms. Log analytics can be used in various use cases, including ITOps, DevOps, security, and customer analytics, but processing data at scale remains a challenge, particularly indexing. New cloud-based platforms can address this by compressing indexed data, allowing for faster analysis and more effective log analytics initiatives.