Integrating Zincsearch/Zincobserve API into Custom GUI

TLDR Vinod wants to integrate zincsearch/zincobserve into an existing application with a custom GUI. Hengfei and Prabhat guided the use of the API and moving away from Elasticsearch.

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Vinod
Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:45:18 UTC

Hi guys, is there a way i can integrate zincsearch/zincobserve in my existing application without using its existing UI as i want to build my own GUI?

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Hengfei
Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:49:48 UTC

of course, we have API, you can directly use it.

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Prabhat
Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:53:02 UTC

Vinod what is your use case? We can better guide you if we understand it

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Vinod
Thu, 16 Mar 2023 14:07:51 UTC

Our customer wants a lightweight engine (does not want to use elasticsearch) that can ingest all kinds of logs (this can be directly fed through our backend apps or the customer can upload it from its existing GUI) along with this he also wants to have a dashboard which u have currently for search but should have the same look and feel as its existing system..the integration should be seemless, should not look like a different app

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Prabhat
Thu, 16 Mar 2023 14:20:06 UTC

As Hengfei mentioned just use the APIs. Check docs for API reference

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Prabhat
Thu, 16 Mar 2023 14:20:54 UTC

BTW, you can replace large ES installations with ZO too

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Vinod
Fri, 17 Mar 2023 05:16:35 UTC

cool; our plan is to move away from ES; i hope we don't regret our decision

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Vinod
Fri, 17 Mar 2023 05:16:40 UTC

:slightly_smiling_face:

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Prabhat
Fri, 17 Mar 2023 05:44:23 UTC

If you are not at least 10x happier (Even 9x) compared to ES, then ping us here. We will be waiting.

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Prabhat
Fri, 17 Mar 2023 05:51:44 UTC

What company are you implementing this at?

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Vinod
Fri, 17 Mar 2023 06:10:01 UTC

cannot disclose the client details :stuck_out_tongue:

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Vinod
Fri, 17 Mar 2023 06:10:20 UTC

but its a pretty big one :slightly_smiling_face: