Nicholas Thomson and Edith Méndez discuss the challenges of managing growing log volumes and the need for modern, cloud-native log management strategies. Organizations are shifting away from legacy solutions due to concerns about migration costs, security risks, performance impacts, and incompatible data formats. Modern solutions offer flexible retention policies, real-time analytical tools, role-based access control (RBAC), and adherence to compliance frameworks. These features help teams reduce costs by selectively keeping essential logs queryable while routing others to long-term archiving. Additionally, modern log management options provide tools for faceted search, real-time search, or analytics that require little or no technical experience, improving collaboration across teams and enabling faster issue resolution. The authors also explore the importance of targeted insights for faster incident response and security vulnerability detection. To successfully migrate logs, teams must segment data sources, enforce compliance with sensitive data redaction, and unify log formats through standardization techniques. Finally, Datadog Observability Pipelines provides a cost-efficient and disruption-free migration solution that simplifies log migration and enables teams to configure log collection, transformation, and routing without disrupting existing workflows.