[mikeshi42]

Nope! We're virtually schema agnostic, you can map your custom schema to observability concepts (ex. the SQL expression for TraceID, either a column or a full function/expression will work).

We don't have any lock in to our ingestion pipeline or schema. Of course we optimize a lot for the OTel path, but it works perfectly fine without it too.

[atombender]

Very happy with CH, but I'm sadly disappointed with HyperDX:

* Not possible to reorder columns?

* Not possible to wrap cells?

* The doesn't seem to be a concept of "field popularity" as Kibana has (where you can also "pin" fields)?

* The log view's chart is very simplistic. No breakdown. Time selector is very primitive. Look at Google Cloud's log view if you want to see something good here.

* No field value autocompletion when using the query builder?

* Live view is annoying as hell. It scrolls to the top every few seconds even when there is no need data.

* Chart view is nearly useless. I tried to create a chart showing two time series calculations, average and P95 of a metric, and it doesn't draw it correctly, and the series get messed up, and overall I think it's not usable. Happy to explain further, but even a cursory test should reproduce this. Fortunately Grafana can access CH data and do a much better job here.

* The drill-down sidebar doesn't seem to have any idea what's important or not, so some fields I will never want to filter on are high up in the list and others are further down. I can't rearrange the fields?

* Lots of other nuisances.

Overall I found it much, much weaker than Kibana for both logs and charts, and Kibana is already pretty atrocious at both, so.

I can probably live with it because I'm desperate to replace Elastic with CH, but I think I will kiss the functionality of the Kibana UI.

[mikeshi42]

This is really helpful feedback, a few notes:

- Reorder columns: You should be able to do so by modifying the order of the SELECT statement at the top.

- Wrapping: totally agree - this is something we're adding in, it's on the near term todos.

- Pin fields: you're totally right, you can pin values but that doesn't prioritize the filter in general. I'm getting this one in the queue.

- Time picker: I hear you with Google Cloud's time picker, they did indeed make a really nice one. Though I'm curious to hear more about the breakdown, is it wanting to customize how that chart is grouped beyond log level?

- Autocomplete: We had a regression if you're on v2.0.0 which is what I suspect you're hitting. If you're on v2.0.1 lucene should have field value autocomplete. We don't have it yet for SQL.

- Live View: Can you clarify what is scrolling? Or is this about disabling live?

- Chart View: I just tried really quick and it seems okay to me, do you mind sharing more details?

- Sidebar: Is this related to field popularity to pin fields or something else?

This feedback is all super helpful - you can probably tell we're still early in building out the perfect experience. I'd love it if we could dive in deeper either on our discord (https://hyperdx.io/discord) or email: [e-mail]. Either way this has been exceptionally helpful :)

[atombender]

That's great to hear. I will take a closer look ASAP.