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Re: Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes

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"Search" feels like a bit of a stretch to me--that suggests that it plays in the same space as OpenSearch or Splunk. There's no index here that I can tell. "Filter" sounds more accurate.

Yes, there's no index. It uses grep (powered by ripgrep) under the hood.

Re: Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes

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Damn, if you took out the “Kubernetes” part, and made it generalized, it looks like you built something that I have wanted to see for a long time. I think log explorers work best as a GUI, and that they need deep integration with structured logs. Basically I just want the DataDog log explorer but locally, and able to simply intake from some files. Some have tried, but they are always too simple, not parsing out prope…

Look into https://logdy.dev . I've played around with it a little bit, but really putting some work into learning it and integrating it with OTEL traces is my next side project.

Another alternative is https://openobserve.ai/ . It needs to run as a daemon to ingest logs (instead of opening a file), but it has a really nice UI.

Re: Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes

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I don't use kubernetes but the GUI looks great, I'm looking for something sililar for heroku (currently storing logs in papertrail but haven't found a great way to search through achieved logs, especially locally).

Great demo video btw. Would you mind detailing which software you used to make it? I'd like to do similarly for some of my projects.

Re: Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes

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I don't use kubernetes but the GUI looks great, I'm looking for something sililar for heroku (currently storing logs in papertrail but haven't found a great way to search through achieved logs, especially locally). Great demo video btw. Would you mind detailing which software you used to make it? I'd like to do similarly for some of my projects.

Thanks! I used Screen Studio for the demos (https://screen.studio). I had to pay for it but I couldn't find the zoom+highlight feature anywhere else.

Regarding Heroku - I loved Heroku the first time I used it so I set up my Kubernetes cluster to work in a similar way (`git push` to deploy to production). I know K8s has a reputation for being useful only for large deployments/large teams but in my experience this isn't true. You can run a single node cluster and use it to host multiple projects all sharing the same load balancer, or you can scale up to thousands of machines with many microservices working together internally. Would it be helpful for you to see a HOWTO for setting up a Heroku-like K8s cluster?

Re: Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes

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My personal preference for log tailing is Stern. It doesn't have a web UI but then I've never felt like I needed one. https://github.com/stern/stern

I was about to comment about Stern. It's an established well known OSS project - I wonder if the author knew about it, and if so.. what was his inspiration for creating an almost identical clone, albeit with a UI on top?

Re: Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes

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Not to be confused with the other kubetail that also does kube log things. https://github.com/johanhaleby/kubetail

Thanks for posting a link to Johan's project. I'm in touch with him to figure out the best way to avoid confusing users.

A good starting point would be to not take over the name of an existing product.

Re: Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes

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I don't use kubernetes but the GUI looks great, I'm looking for something sililar for heroku (currently storing logs in papertrail but haven't found a great way to search through achieved logs, especially locally). Great demo video btw. Would you mind detailing which software you used to make it? I'd like to do similarly for some of my projects.

Thanks! I used Screen Studio for the demos ( https://screen.studio ). I had to pay for it but I couldn't find the zoom+highlight feature anywhere else. Regarding Heroku - I loved Heroku the first time I used it so I set up my Kubernetes cluster to work in a similar way (`git push` to deploy to production). I know K8s has a reputation for being useful only for large deployments/large teams but in my experience this is…

> I used Screen Studio for the demos (https://screen.studio)

Thanks for sharing! The zoom and highlight are so simple but really make your demo pop.

> Would it be helpful for you to see a HOWTO for setting up a Heroku-like K8s cluster?

Sure, I think a lot of people would appreciate that!

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