
Extracting maximum value from your logging platform today requires the ability to act on data without incurring high costs associated with indexing and retention. MyDecisive’s SmartHub stands out by fundamentally separating Action/Alerting from Storage/Analysis.
Traditional logging platforms necessitate ingestion, indexing, and payment for all log data before any basic actions, such as alerting or filtering, can be executed. This method is not only costly but often depends on static filters that are incomplete and discard data indiscriminately at the source.
In contrast, SmartHub employs in-stream, full-scale processing to facilitate immediate, programmable actions like real-time alerting, automation triggers, or PII redaction on log lines. Once actions are taken, these log lines can be directed to the most cost-effective storage for long-term analysis or discarded entirely. This approach ensures you do not pay to index and store irrelevant data just to alert on a small fraction of signals, offering unparalleled control and real-time response at the lowest total cost of ownership in the market.
Meeting compliance regulations like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or SOX necessitates retaining log data for extended periods, often up to 7 years. This often leads to significant costs due to per-GB ingestion and storage fees charged by SaaS observability vendors.
The SmartHub's log routing capability addresses this challenge by enabling organizations to enforce retention and access policies tailored to the type and sensitivity of the log data. This ensures compliance while managing costs effectively.
| Log Category | SaaS Vendor Destination | Low-Cost Destination |
|---|---|---|
Operational/Debugging Logs | YES. Required for real-time indexing, alerting, and rapid troubleshooting like HTTP errors, application traces. | NO. High volume, low long-term retention value. |
Security/Audit Logs | YES (Short Term). Needed for immediate security incident detection and correlation like failed logins. | YES (Long Term). Required for 7-year compliance archives. Log is routed to both destinations. |
PII/PHI Logs | NO. Logs containing sensitive data (unless fully redacted) don’t enter third-party platforms. | YES (Securely). Routed only to an internal, encrypted, cost-effective storage for compliance and audit-only access. |
Pure Noise Logs | NO. High volume, low signal-to-noise. | NO. Discarded entirely in-stream to save all costs. |
Pay your SaaS vendor only for the high-value logs necessary for active indexing and action (alerting, dashboards). For long-term compliance archives stored internally on S3, you only incur costs of cents per GB.
Log filtering and redaction modules ensure that logs containing sensitive information are excluded from the third-party vendor, significantly reducing risk exposure.
Now you can avoid a vendor's arbitrary retention window, which often lasts from 90 days to 1 year. Instead, you can easily manage compliance archives within your own S3/storage bucket for the full required duration.
Route logs directly to cold storage, effectively bypassing the costly cycle of Ingest → Index → Store that is common in legacy solutions, ultimately reducing compliance costs.
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