Compliance requirements increasingly affect a wide range of industries, leading companies to retain extensive digital transaction records, which can be costly when using traditional Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms. These platforms not only demand significant staffing and infrastructure expenses but also incur high licensing costs, impacting the total cost of ownership (TCO). To address these challenges, companies are diversifying their log management strategies by using multiple platforms tailored to specific tasks, such as employing Grafana Loki for non-SIEM logs. Grafana Loki offers a cost-effective solution by indexing only key fields rather than full-text logs, reducing the index size and, consequently, the TCO. This allows organizations to allocate resources more efficiently, focusing on cybersecurity investments amid geopolitical tensions, while maintaining compliance through scalable and flexible log management. Despite its advantages, Loki is not ideal for SIEM-style lookups, so companies often integrate it with SIEM solutions via Grafana dashboards, offering a unified interface to manage compliance and security needs effectively.