Allow me to view log lines nearby a specific line that showed up in a search, kind of like grep -C n. Use case is that I’m seeing HTTP 500s from my web service. I can isolate the log lines for those requests, but if I want to see the extra lines (perhaps for a crash) that led up to it, I have to remove my search filter and manually set a time range that’s small enough that it returns fewer than 1000 lines.

That, and retention policies. I just had a disk fill up because Loki keeps saving data.

That said, I’ve been using Loki for several months and I love it. Keep up the great work!

Reading up on Loki, it seems it lacks full-text search, prefering something called 'distributed grep'.

I'm also looking at sonic, which is a new full-text search engine in rust with less overhead than Elasticsearch. It's lacking a gui focused on log search.

Could they work together somehow, maybe as an alternative backend to you distributed grep?

Sonic does not store the original content, so it could store a reference into your compressed chunk.

Hi! Any plans to release binaries? If I am currently using 1% of ELK features (I use it for simple log aggregation of servers), but not k8s, would you still recommend loki?

Alerting on certain log entries, please :)

Even a simple label match would be a good start.