rsdbdr203

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by rsdbdr203 3y ago
I disliked a lot of things about working at Meta, the monorepo was not one... it was truly amazing, and very well done.
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by rsdbdr203 3y ago
I was very impressed by Scuba's ability to ingest and search data... and very unimpressed by the interface. I found it terribly unintuitive, and often didn't get you what you wanted without having to run multiple queries. Phabrica
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by rsdbdr203 3y ago
This isn't a great argument... sure, Splunk "saved the day" because it caught that really bad security thing... but what other tools, at half the cost, could have also "saved the day"? If most of them could have
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by rsdbdr203 3y ago
100% this... profit, or it's not worth it
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by rsdbdr203 3y ago
>Their feature flagging system was also on point. Which one... there are like 3 (or more)? The ones I worked with were the single biggest cause of SEVs. I wrote some tooling around trying to make it better, but it honestly needed to be c
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
This is exactly why I build log-store. Can easily handle 60k logs/sec, but I think more importantly is the query interface. Commands to help you extract value from your logs, including custom commands written in Python. Free through &#
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
https://log-store.com - Going for a low-cost alternative to Splunk. Everyone seems to love Splunk, except for the price. My goal is to replicate 75% or so of the most-used features, but at a dramatically reduced price (currently
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
I asked a slightly different question, but I'd love to hear about your experience running Splunk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34412176
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Ask HN: What features do you like most and least (besides cost) about Splunk?
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
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 ho
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
Only binary. Ultimately I would like to sell it, but just looking for feedback at the moment.
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
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
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
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.
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
I've been working on one: log-store.com It has a DB built-in that is schema-less, but it's really the frontend I've been trying to focus on, as I think the interface to Kibana is poor.
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
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 ap
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
I hypothesize it's not useful because you're using grep. If you use a tool that can show you multiple lines all tied by a request ID, it becomes much more helpful.
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
Agreed! Centralizing logs is so helpful, but you don't know it until you've done it. Too many people rely upon grep, when a handy tool is just a download away. Plug for said too: https://log-store.com
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
Working on a startup to basically be 75% of the features of Splunk at 50% the cost: https://log-store.com/ Right now it's 100% free, because I'm just looking for user feedback. I think/hope there is an openin
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
I'm working on a startup that ingests logs, and you can easily consume them via API as that's how the GUI works. Shoot me an email if you'd like to know more... no charge if you find it useful w/out the GUI.
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
I posted above, but starting log-store.com so I'm trying to promote it in threads without being too pushy :-) It's in beta and free. My plan is honestly to have my pricing be free for small amounts of data, and then 50% the price
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
Would love to know more about specific use-cases you've been talking to Datadog about. I'm starting a company (log-store.com) that I pitch to people as 75% of the features of Splunk at 50% the price. Right now that 75% is probably
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
No Splunk[1]? They're the defacto enterprise log platform. [1]: https://www.splunk.com/
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by rsdbdr203 4y ago
I've been working on something similar as I dislike ES's JSON DSL or Kibana's interface: https://log-store.com/ It's not open source but old skool '90s-style freeware. The current single-node versio