> "Beginner tutorial", I'm sorry for not taking your point seriously, but I can't take it seriously.

Well, maybe go observe how a broad array of sites implement it in practice, then you might take it more seriously. Maybe you don't implement it that way, but a lot of people will just follow the tutorials or shortcut their way to something that works (but is brittle).

At any rate, I was responding directly to the claim that "No one has suggested running syslog over unreliable transport" which is obviously untrue.

Yes, go observe a broad array of sites - for someone who says theyre a (non)practicing attorney, you know in environments where logs and audit are considered evidence, to such a degree that they must be reliably transported and immunutable, someone doesn't just turn on UDP syslog to a box and let it sit there. Architecture and implementation happen, where it matters. So what if anyone uses otel or syslog, people can configure em both to be lossy or lossless, I struggle to understand the "gotchas" you point to.

Then I don't know what to tell you. *shrug* I feel like you're arguing just for argument's sake, and I'm not really interested in having a conversation with someone who's not demonstrating open-mindedness or a willingness to learn from others' experiences in the field.