This place is yours to build and make better Spot-on remark. This exactly the feeling Lemmy gives me. It’s new and growing but definitely searching it’s position. There is more of a learning-curve than reddit, but the more I learn, the more I like it. I quit reddit cold-turkey and never looked back, never had regrets.
I found graylog and the likes nice but as you said heavy on resources. I now have a central rsyslog server (on debian 12) that first does some filtering of log lines I don’t care about and then stores log in postgress. Grafana lives on that same host and I’m very happy with it. It performs quite well with just a fraction of resources graylog had as bare minimum. (The server has 4 sockets and 8Gb mem, storage to SSD while 4 firewalls, 3 switches, 4 AP’s and 20 servers logging to it) In the proxmox console I see 2Gb mem is used and the cpu is bored (<5%)