Allow me to view log lines nearby a specific line that showed up in a search, kind of like grep -C n. Use case is that I’m seeing HTTP 500s from my web service. I can isolate the log lines for those requests, but if I want to see the extra lines (perhaps for a crash) that led up to it, I have to remove my search filter and manually set a time range that’s small enough that it returns fewer than 1000 lines.

That, and retention policies. I just had a disk fill up because Loki keeps saving data.

That said, I’ve been using Loki for several months and I love it. Keep up the great work!

Reading up on Loki, it seems it lacks full-text search, prefering something called 'distributed grep'.

I'm also looking at sonic, which is a new full-text search engine in rust with less overhead than Elasticsearch. It's lacking a gui focused on log search.

Could they work together somehow, maybe as an alternative backend to you distributed grep?

Sonic does not store the original content, so it could store a reference into your compressed chunk.

Hi! Any plans to release binaries? If I am currently using 1% of ELK features (I use it for simple log aggregation of servers), but not k8s, would you still recommend loki?

Yes we do! Plan on cutting v0.1 in the next week or so, kubecon kinda got in the way... I’ll work on adding some binaries to that - what platform you looking for?

Not the OP but in the same situation. I run Debian 9 on my servers, would be great to have some debs to try it out.

Thanks!

Great, thank you! I look forward to testing it. I also use Debian 9 (or stable, slowly moving towards Debian 10 which will soon be released).

+1 RedHat 7 and 8.

Alerting on certain log entries, please :)

Even a simple label match would be a good start.