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That's _exactly_ what I'm trying to build, and you don't have to pay anything. I was frustrated with what I thought was a poor interface for Kibana, and having to deal with schema for Elasticsearch, so I built log-store. I appreciate any feedback!

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I initially thought you were the author of Zinc, but based on your comment history you're trying to build a logging SaaS replacement or something, which based solely upon its documentation is ALSO not ES API compatible, so I don't know how to interpret your reply

I guess I misread your comment... my apologies. What I'm building is more a replacement for Splunk: on-prem log analytics. As you point out, it is not compatible w/Elasticsearch in any way.

> What I'm building is more a replacement for Splunk

Wow, you really are swinging for the fences, then. I wish you all the best, because running Splunk is terrible, and ripe for replacement, but its search featureset and UX are massive so I hope you are laser focused on who the target audience is for your product

Thanks! Would love to know more about your experience running Splunk... Can I reach out to you?

Looking for some small niche... Industrial, automotive, even garbage truck monitoring :-) I'm not looking to build a massive public company or anything either... More a lifestyle business. We'll see.

Sure, just submit a "Ask HN: What is your experience running Splunk?" and point me to it. I'm sure you'll get all kinds of horror stories aside from mine

I asked a slightly different question, but I'd love to hear about your experience running Splunk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34412176

> I was frustrated with what I thought was a poor interface for Kibana

I can't think of a better/more well done user interface than Kibana. Am I missing something?

The interface (GUI) is OK (and looks better than mine honestly), but the usability isn't great. The query syntax is tough to grok IMO. Using the sample dataset it took myself and a friend who knew Kibana like 5 minutes to figure out how to make a pie chart of the various OS types. It's probably that we're just dense and don't know what we're doing, but with log-store you just click the pie chart icon next to the field, and it will update the query and render the chart. I think that's easier to use.

Is source available? Or binary only?

Only binary. Ultimately I would like to sell it, but just looking for feedback at the moment.

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