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Logz.io
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Logz.io is the company blog at logz.io, writing about systems and data. Since 2015, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “Fluentd vs. Logstash: A Comparison of Log Collectors”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Logz.io's blog for practical guides on logging, ELK/Elasticsearch, OpenTelemetry and observability, and for posts on the Elastic and OpenSearch licensing debate.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Stop chasing alerts. Logz.io's AI-powered observability platform unifies logs, metrics, and traces to cut MTTR, automate root cause analysis, and get ahead of issues before they impact users.
Most-linked posts?
- Fluentd vs. Logstash: A Comparison of Log Collectors3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-11-18
- Technical Debt Is a Good Thing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-25
- How to Use ELK to Monitor Performance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-30
- Logstash pitfalls need to know2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-20
- /blog/deploy-elk-production/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-24
- /blog/open-source-elasticsearch-doubling-down/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-21
What Hacker News says?
SSPL is NOT an open source license. OSI (Open Source Initiative) released a statement to clarify that, and also respondED to Elastic's claims. https://opensource.org/node/1099 The community has invested in Elasticsearch and in Kibana, and we need to keep it open source. really open source. Check out this initiative: https://logz.io/blog/open-source-elasticsearch-doubling-down... (disclaimer: I'm a developer advocate…
Comment linking /blog/open-source-elasticsearch-doubling-down/
on “Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing”Submitted Should You Become a Full Stack Developer? as a story · 11 points
HN discussionODFE has a security plugin and supports auditing, RBAC and support for node to node encryption[1][2]. The security plugin is based on Search Guard[3].I have run Elastisearch clusters using both the Elastics Co opensource versions as well as ODFE and have personally found the security plugin of ODFE preferable to Elastic Co's X-pack. ODFE also has some additional features included like PerfAnalyzer and SQL interface.…
Comment linking /blog/open-distro-for-elasticsearch/
on “AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering”Submitted Technical Debt Is a Good Thing as a story · 10 points
HN discussionHi snewman, I am currently using logdna as my splunk alternative, but it's not very good. Why should I try scalyr next, over the other alternatives ? My main constraint is the solution should be at least half as good as splunk, and cost less than $50 a month (I generate less than 1G a day). Your pricing seems to be reasonable. But how do you compare to splunk on features ? Here are the other tools I am considering t…
Comment linking /pricing/
on “Build versus Buy”Submitted The Beginner's Guide to DevOps as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThere's been some comparisons in the past. http://logz.io/blog/fluentd-logstash/ https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20150807-fluentd-vs-logsta... http://jasonwilder.com/blog/2013/11/19/fluentd-vs-logstash/
Comment linking /blog/fluentd-logstash/
on “Distributed Logging Architecture in the Container Era”Submitted The Complete List of 250+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2016 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionYears ago, ELK was the thing for log files. logstash. https://logz.io/blog/server-log-analysis/ loki is indeed what I ended up with and it was a mostly easier install process (despite the missing easily installed debian packages). The next problem being that Graphana is actually quite terrible at rendering log files. It seems the log file usecase just isn't that popular.
Comment linking /blog/server-log-analysis/
on “Elasticsearch is dead, long live Open Distro for Elasticsearch”Submitted The Definitive Guide to AWS Log Analytics Using ELK as a story · 6 points
HN discussionlogz.io does not appear to support TLS on their homepage. I'm getting mixed content errors that are preventing stylesheet loading. So, correct link may be http://logz.io instead of https://logz.io
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on “Ask HN: Any great product onboarding experiences you've had lately?”Submitted Fluentd vs. Logstash: A Comparison of Log Collectors as a story · 6 points
HN discussion* https://www.sendinblue.com/ (like Mailchimp, but easier) * https://logz.io/ (log aggregation FTW) * https://www.skylight.io/ (application performance monitoring for Ruby, similar to New Relic, written in Rust)
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on “Ask HN: Any great product onboarding experiences you've had lately?”Submitted A Logstash Tutorial: How to Get Started as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI liked this article: https://logz.io/learn/opentelemetry-guide/ You also have the Observability podcasts
Comment linking /learn/opentelemetry-guide/
on “Tracing Uncovers Half-Truths in Slack’s CI Infrastructure”Submitted Elasticsearch Cluster Setup and Update: Plan, Read, and Test as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI’ll raise you one better I came across yesterday https://logz.io/learn/how-to-run-opentelemetry-demo-with-log... If it’s not obvious, try scrolling a bit then try to go back to this page
Comment linking /learn/how-to-run-opentelemetry-demo-with-logz-io/
on “Counting Ghosts: A case for abandoning web analytics”Submitted How to Use AWS Elasticsearch for Log Management as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI am not sure if any hate is warranted, but it is true that coming up with a new license which does not comply with open source licenses, and proceeding to call it open source definitely did not help to create sympathy. There is nothing wrong with releasing something under a proprietary license but calling this license change "Doubling down on open source" is damaging. https://logz.io/blog/open-source-elasticsearch-…
Comment linking /blog/open-source-elasticsearch-doubling-down/
on “Show HN: MongoDB Protocol for SQLite”Submitted How to create custom Kibana visualizations as a story · 4 points
HN discussiongreat news! here's my take on it: https://logz.io/blog/opensearch-1-0-ga-generally-available-e...
Comment linking /blog/opensearch-1-0-ga-generally-available-elasticsearch-kibana-fork/
on “OpenSearch 1.0 is now GA”Submitted Logstash pitfalls need to know as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI guess it depends on your needs. Elasticsearch is a great option, and if you're looking for visualizing the data then it can be used together with Kibana to create cross-data graphs and visualizations. For the kind of data volume you're talking of, you'll need a fully scalable stack, with queuing and other buffers to handle traffic. You might find this piece we wrote useful: http://logz.io/blog/deploy-elk-productio…
Comment linking /blog/deploy-elk-production/
on “Chat database for millions of messages per day”Submitted NGINX Log Analysis with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHey! I recommend to check post from VictoriaMetrics CTO https://valyala.medium.com/promql-tutorial-for-beginners-9ab... and this guide https://docs.victoriametrics.com/guides/migrate-from-influx.... . Also there is nice post from Logz.io https://logz.io/blog/influxql-to-promql-grafana-dashboard-co... which contain a converter https://github.com/logzio/influxql-to-promql-converter
Comment linking /blog/influxql-to-promql-grafana-dashboard-converter-open-source/
on “Wikimedia's Public Grafana Instance”Submitted Lack of Knowledge Among Teams Impacts Observability as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://logz.io/blog/influxdb-vs-elasticsearch/ https://portal.influxdata.com/downloads Perhaps also consider influxdb
Comment linking /blog/influxdb-vs-elasticsearch/
on “Ask HN: Are there good alternatives to ElasticSearch for storing logs?”Submitted The DevOps Pulse 2017 Results: 70% of Workers Risk Burnout as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHello! I didn't quite understand -- are looking for a log analysis tool that also helps with related web analytics? Disclosure: I work for Logz.io ( http://logz.io ) and our log analytics platform can do exactly that. To learn more about the intersection of log analytics and web analytics, you might want to see this Moz post I wrote a few weeks ago on using log data to analyze search engine crawl rates, crawl budget…
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on “Self-hosted, OSS logfile analytics?”Submitted Technical Debt Is a Good Thing as a story · 3 points
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