prabhatsharma

You should try OpenObserve. It combines logging, metrics and dashboards (and traces) in one single binary/container

We actually started with go initially. Then we chose to use a different approach to building it (brute force vs inverted indexes) and tested both rust and Go this time. Found rust to be 2x faster for same loop. We knew at this point that we had to choose rust.

Hey folks,

Today we are launching OpenObserve. An open source Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative written in rust and vue that is super easy to get started with and has 140x lower storage cost. It offers logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, functions (run aws lambda like functions during ingestion and query to enrich, redact, transform, normalize and whatever else you want to do. Think redacting email IDs from logs, adding geolocation based on IP address, etc). You can do all of this from the UI, no messing up with configuration files.

OpenObserve can use local disk for storage in single node mode or s3/gc/minio/azure blob or any s3 compatible store in HA mode.

We found that setting up observability often involved setting up 4 different tools (grafana for dashboarding, elasticsearch/loki/etc for logs, jaeger for tracing, thanos, cortex etc for metics) and its not simple to do these things.

Here is a blog on why we built OpenObserve - https://openobserve.ai/blog/launching-openobserve.

We are in early days and would love to get feedback and suggestions.

10x easier, 140x lower storage cost, high performance, petabyte scale - Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative for (logs, metrics, traces).

Now what are the real alternatives to wordpress in 2023? security issues area. nightmare.

not ghost - too clunky to use. what else?

We need to update the website. A lot of ES APIs are now compatible.

It is definitely super easy to deploy and run compared to ES. You can get up and running in less than 2 min. And you are right, messaging needs to be better.

And yeah, We definitely need a better query language. We are working on it.

Zinc is a little too early for performance benchmarks (Still not at 1.0). fluentbit, logstash, filebeat can be used as is with ZincSearch. Kibana is not yet supported but you could use the UI of Zinc (Still in very early phase) which is embedded and you don't have to install separately.

Elasticsearch and ZincSearch both are general purpose search engines based on inverted indexes that can be used for app search as well as log search. In my stint at AWS I found that most companies used elasticsearch and anecdotally 90%+ users used it for log search. Log search was also the use case that I had in my mind when I built ZincSearch for my own needs and I found ES to be lacking. Here is a blog that I wrote on my motivation around building ZincSearch - https://prabhatsharma.in/blog/in-search-of-a-search-engine-b...

@draerossman. Thanks. Yeah, indeed we have pretty decent compatibility with ES.

(Am from ZincSearch team) Here is a list of supported languages - https://docs.zincsearch.com/api-es-compatible/index/analyze/...

Sure. Thanks for the feedback. Will start with a video and then a demo site.