• Currently using New Relic and hate the complexity. • Just tried Mezmo but it doesn’t parse custom fields from journald. • Used Papertrail in the past which was good, but their new owner Solarwinds has bad reputation. • Used self-hosted ELK in the past which was too much work, and Kibana does too much. • Looked at Logflare (confusing), Axiom and Datadog, (too much), DataSet (don’t want to talk to sales people)…

Hi (again) @UDQE4G9B2 :-) This is actually one of the problems that I’m https://www.taoensso.com/clojure/monitoring-survey soon. Haven’t decided yet whether to proceed, and not sure what your timeline is - but I’m aiming to make a decision in the next ~2-3 weeks. If I do proceed, I’ll be looking for potential early adopters to build a prototype for. From your pain points, it sounds like what I have in mind might be a good fit for your case (though it might be too far in the future to be immediately useful to you). Anyway, feel free to ping if you’d be interested in chatting about this.

I discovered http://logtail.com last night and it’s close to my needs. It’s relying on https://vector.dev being installed on my servers, which I’m currently struggling to configure such that it stops logging warnings of its own. The frontend I like so far, though.

Looking forward to what you come up with if you go ahead. I tried building a simple&inexpensive product for the sysadmin/ops market 6 years ago and failed to make it commercially viable because the marketing is quite difficult. Too many people who don’t understand the value of their own time / rather tinker than paying $2/month for something that just works. Building a good product was the easy part :)

Too many people who don't understand the value of their own time / rather tinker than paying $2/month for something that just works