IT operations, development operations, and cloud operations engineers struggle to manage complex IT environments, which can impact enterprise productivity. To overcome this challenge, log analytics solutions are essential for analyzing millions of logs describing performance characteristics of IT components. Analytical flexibility is a key criterion for ops engineers to evaluate log analytics products, considering factors such as granular organization, search and query capabilities, support for various use cases, and handling of batch and streaming data workloads. By selecting the right product, operations engineers can create a stable, agile IT environment that drives productivity, whereas failing to do so can lead to decreased enterprise performance.