[dracyr]

I think there's nothing currently that combines both logging and metrics into one easy package and visualizes it, but it's also something I would love to have.

Vector[1] would work as the agent, being able to collect both logs and metrics. But the issue would then be storing it. I'm assuming the Elastic Stack might now be able to do both, but it's just to heavy to deal with in a small setup.

A couple of months ago I took a brief look at that when setting up logging for my own homelab (https://pv.wtf/posts/logging-and-the-homelab). Mostly looking at the memory usage to fit it on my synology. Quickwit[2] and Log-Store[3] both come with built in web interfaces that reduce the need for grafana, but neither of them do metrics.

- [1] https://vector.dev - [2] https://quickwit.io/ - [3] https://log-store.com/

[francoismassot]

Nice experiment.

Side note: it should be possible to tweak some config parameters to optimize the memory usage or cpu usage of quickwit. Ask us on the discord server next time :)

[dracyr]

Thanks!

Yeah, I was a little bit surprised it was so close. And I've been using tantivy (the library which powers quickwit afaik) in another side project where it used comparatively less.

Might jump in there then as an excuse to fiddle a bit more with the homelab soon then :)

[prabhatsharma]

You should try OpenObserve. It combines logging, metrics and dashboards (and traces) in one single binary/container

[prabhatsharma]

https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve

[esafak]

Does using vector commit you to DataDog in any way?

[nullify88]

Not at all.