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Couldn't agree more. Not to mention timestamps that JSON simply doesn't handle and is essential for event data. The raijin database has an clever approach to solving the schema rig…

NXLog - Log Management| DevOps Engineer | Europe | REMOTE ONLY | https://nxlog.co We would like to hear from you if you are interested in building fantastic products in the log man…

I'm running a remote-only company and we moved to GitLab.com last summer from cloud hosted trac+git/svn combo (xp-dev). The reason we picked GitLab.com was because the stack is awe…

We are remote-only now so you can be located anywhere. The company itself is in the EU (Hungary). The careers page is a bit out-of-date, it will be updated soon.

We are also looking to hire a technical writer for NXLog. If you or anyone else is interested, feel free to reach out. https://nxlog.org/contact-us

The linked page already talks about jsonb in postgres. Feel free to read it! :)

Note that this is not PG, Raijin is a new implementation and is not built on Postgres. Otherwise the question is valid. Raijin does not store NULL values though. In the above examp…

Having to work with unstructured datatypes in Postgres and other RDBMS products was quite hard a few years back, now with hstore and JSONB in Postgres this has gotten much better b…

There is disk based buffering in NXLog CE. You might want to check it out with respect to the other woes you have with rsyslog.

You might want to consider NXLog if you need to do transformation at the source. For us this was an explicit design goal. Moreover it is also lightweight and a lot of people use it…

I had a similar "open source burnout" recently. Since you asked for it, there is a blog post I wrote which might be of interest: http://nxlog-ce.sourceforge.net/why-the-gpl-does-no…

> Why would you release something to the public and put your name on it if it's lazily done? No software is perfect. It has either no features in it or has bugs. The assholes will …

Not sure about logstash but a lot of its users use NXLog ( http://nxlog.org ) as a shipper since it has a much lower resource footprint as there is no java and ruby in there. (I'm …

If you open source it, pick a license that's more restrictive (e.g. AGPL). This leaves a chance for you to get lucky and sell it to a company who wants it to use it as closed sourc…

Paid support is already there. There is a "support" menu on the webpage, the issue tracker has a polite note saying that this is available. Some people have been contacted directly…

It's nice to hear about such success stories. Unfortunately most OSS projects never gain such a user base to be able to make a living off of it. I'm currently evaluating changing t…