Discussing Features and Compatibility of Log Processing Component

TLDR Tony queried about Log processing component, comparing it with Loki/Elastic/Splunk. Ashish clarified its usage and planned updates. Tony also asked about Grafana compatibility, which Prabhat confirmed. last inquired about storage setup, and Prabhat described available modes.

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Tony
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 02:05:31 UTC

I see: "You should give a time range for each query or it will scan all data, it is a very expensive operate. So it seems like the Log processing component is more like Loki than Elastic/Splunk that supports inverted indices?

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Ashish
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 02:43:50 UTC

We don't use inverted index...rather while searching we use brute force search as you mentioned

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Ashish
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 02:44:30 UTC

We use data partitioning to reduce scan volumn size based on time range for query

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Tony
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 02:44:33 UTC

Yeah same with the people who all use Clickhouse :slightly_smiling_face:

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Tony
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 02:44:45 UTC

reasonable approach

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Ashish
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 02:45:01 UTC

We also support custom partitioning keys

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Ashish
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 02:45:30 UTC

We will be adding adaptive partitioning based on query usage in future

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Ashish
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 02:46:46 UTC

Do let us know any feedback or suggestions

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Ashish
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 02:47:03 UTC

Also if you face any issue ..we would be glad to assist

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Tony
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 02:51:07 UTC

Does it work with Grafana?

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Tony
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 02:51:12 UTC

I am currently using Prometheus + Loki

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Prabhat
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 04:22:43 UTC

There is a plug-in for grafana that u can use. you don't really need it though. You can configure Prometheus to send metrics to OpenObserve and build all your dashboards there

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last
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 04:58:17 UTC

what kind of storage is used ? (i see in readme its using object storage) i was doing a setup from source dint require any database setup could you provide more detail on storage

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Prabhat
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 04:58:59 UTC

You can either use local disk storage in single node mode or s3 in HA mode