Sazabi Manifesto - Logs Are All You Need

Takeaway

  • Core claim: logs alone can reconstruct metrics and traces — three pillars for the price of one
  • AI makes this viable now: LLMs can extract structure, detect anomalies, and derive metrics from raw logs automatically
  • “Monitoring is dead, agentic anomaly detection is the future”
  • Basically the same thesis as Wide Events (ref 06) and O11y 2.0 (ref 07), but packaged as a product pitch
  • Registered “LOGS ARE ALL YOU NEED” as a trademark
  • For LAPP: validates the direction — if a funded startup is betting on “just logs + AI”, the approach has legs