>Looks like a good light-weight alternative for setting up a full elasticsearch cluster for some light log insights.

Exactly! Elastic is a really powerful system but I think there is growing sentiment that its overkill for container logs. This is exactly where we see Loki really helping - almost complimenting Elastic even.

> I've been kind of building something similar myself, but this looks much better.

:blush: thanks! We'd love you input on Loki too...

> The free cloud demo does look it is getting hammered right now ..

Yeah, looks like I'm going to be scaling that all day... Our motivation for over the free service for the next few months is to really battle harden the system - anyone sending us data is really helping us iron out the kinks and improve the open source. Its early days, but expect it to get much better over the next weeks and months..