HyperDX
Infrastructure
observability
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4 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.
Design: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Fast search and easy setup compared with Grafana and Google's suite
From 3 comments
It is actually really great! Works out of the box, does it with a single-page UI, and it is not slow. It's very close to a log viewer I always dreamed of. The UI is much better…
zX41ZdbW on HNA happy HyperDX customer here. Can't recommend it enough. We wanted something good for tracing and logs, without the price tag we were used to from datadog. We've been pleasantly…
lunarcave on HNWe use HyperDX for our observability! We had been using google's observability suite before, because we're using GKE anyways, but HyperDX's search over traces is just waaaay…
maxthegeek1 on HN
Better UI than Grafana for logs
From 1 comment
It is actually really great! Works out of the box, does it with a single-page UI, and it is not slow. It's very close to a log viewer I always dreamed of. The UI is much better…
zX41ZdbW on HN
Objections
Not a true one-to-one Kibana replacement; less approachable for non-technical users
From 2 comments
Hmm, this is not the "Kibana" alternative I imagined. Kibana was supposed to be an easy UI. You go to Discover, and the data automatically shows in chronological order, I can…
est on HNI think your project needs a 'Comparison to Kibana' section. Sell your project to me: I am currently using Kibana, why should I switch?
mathfailure on HN
Concern that the company may later change licensing
From 1 comment
Whats hilarious is that Kibana started out as a Open Source. Hard to trust anything released as OSS these days that hits this site run by a for profit company.. Its all destined…
miah_ on HN
Requests
Support for other backends such as VictoriaLogs
From 1 comment
HyperDX looks great! Are you going to add support for other backends (aka data sources) in order to become "Grafana for logs" solution? For example, I'd be glad to see the…
valyala on HN
Documentation on full-text search indexing
From 1 comment
Can you clarify: Does the full-text search for logs linearly search all logs like Loki does, or can it speed it up with an index? The docs at https://www.hyperdx.io/docs/search…
nh2 on HN
Updated Cloudflare Workers OTel docs
From 1 comment
Neat! I was looking to replace DataDog with an open source alternative. I'm collecting the logs and batch sending them to DataDog using their batch http-intake API. I'm looking…
lpammant on HN
Questions
Does full-text search use an index like bloom filters?
From 2 comments
Can you clarify: Does the full-text search for logs linearly search all logs like Loki does, or can it speed it up with an index? The docs at https://www.hyperdx.io/docs/search…
nh2 on HNYou'd generally add an index to your logs in Clickhouse to do searching (via ngram or token bloom filters typically:…
mikeshi42 on HN
Does it set up recommended indexes automatically and replace Grafana plus Loki?
From 2 comments
Thanks! When using full open-source HyperDX (beyond the Kibana part), inclusive of your choices of ingestion and controlling Clickhouse, does it set up the recommended indexes…
nh2 on HNyes! the full stack includes our recommended schema which has the indexes set up - it's a drop in replacement for anything that would ingest Otel-based telemetry! If you already…
mikeshi42 on HN
Does it work with S3-backed ClickHouse storage?
From 2 comments
Do you support when using S3 object storage as a backing for Clickhouse? One of Grafana's advantages is its very low cost of running because you can send everything to object…
ChocolateGod on HNYup! We're agnostic to the storage medium underneath as Clickhouse's interface doesn't change based on the disk layout backing the table. In our hosted version we use S3 as well.…
mikeshi42 on HN
Alternatives named
Grafana with ClickHouse plugin
From 2 comments
Very interested - I'm currently toying with Grafana set up in the same way, i wonder how this compares?
akdor1154 on HNIf you're using the Grafana Clickhouse plugin - a number of things we do differently to them today: - We support Lucene-based search, which means it's a lot easier to find the…
mikeshi42 on HN
Elastic Kibana
From 2 comments
I think your project needs a 'Comparison to Kibana' section. Sell your project to me: I am currently using Kibana, why should I switch?
mathfailure on HNTotally fair! Here's a few on the top of my head, they're mostly about Elastic really but of course Kibana is only really useful on ES: 1. At my last job we were running some of…
mikeshi42 on HN
Grafana with Loki
From 2 comments
Can you clarify: Does the full-text search for logs linearly search all logs like Loki does, or can it speed it up with an index? The docs at https://www.hyperdx.io/docs/search…
nh2 on HNThanks! When using full open-source HyperDX (beyond the Kibana part), inclusive of your choices of ingestion and controlling Clickhouse, does it set up the recommended indexes…
nh2 on HN
VictoriaLogs
From 1 comment
If you want fast searching for some unique word or phrase across terabytes of logs (aka "needle in the haystack" type of search), then take a look at VictoriaLogs [1] (I'm the…
valyala on HN
Quesma
From 1 comment
You can also use Quesma and real Kibana with ClickHouse too. Disclaimer: Co-founder of Quesma.
jakozaur on HN