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> Then now they figure out this log thing. ElasticSearch is great but try to run it yourself. On a 50 nodes k8s, I bet your first ES config will down after 10mins the first time FluentD come up and send all the log under the sun since the cluster come up

Put a buffer in front of it, pace the initial ingestion and Bob's your uncle. If that was the main problem operating an Elasticsearch cluster it would be all roses.

I like the E?K stack a lot and I admit that operating ES is not exactly easy, but the initial ingestion issue the easy to solve.



That's what I endup doing though. No longer directly write to ES but go into Kafka.

But taking a step back, thinking about how many components you have in the system just to make it work. Compare with Telegraf/InfluxDB/Grafana stack, which is for metrics, operate it is seamless.

That's my high hope for Loki. I hope eventually Loki can just as easy to operate as InfluxDB.




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