I made an Enhancement Request about External Logging. This is part of doing DevOps. You monitor your application to see what is happening in your system so you can respond appropriately. Did errors go up after an upgrade or patch? Are there fewer? New ECO changed the run-time of MRP? Circular BOM?
Why external logging? If you blow away a Pilot system or have to rebuild your live, you lose all those event logs. If you are on SaaS, you don’t have access to the System Event logs. Pushing all of the logs into an external system (cloud or on-prem) allows admins to monitor many metrics easily for multiple systems over time to see trends. Monitoring tools are becoming more and more powerful making unstructured data (like JSON) easier to report on.