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Any upsides to using this over a Table view in default kibana?

by yisheng 10y ago

rngesus 10y ago
By the looks of it, this seems to be a bit more flexible than the default table view, i might be wrong however because i never touched those.
coleca 10y ago
Yes, the live tail portion. With Kibana you'd have to refresh the page to see new logs come in. This is more like Papertrail. Looks like they pretty much copied the UI of papertrailapp.com as well from the screenshot, although it doesn't have the alerting functionality that Papertrail does. This looks like a cool alternative though to get live tailing if you're already on ELK.
- courtewing 10y ago
  It looks like the "live tail" logic is based on polling on an interval - how is that different than Kibana's auto-refresh feature in the timepicker?
- avisk 10y ago
  Yes the whole view inspired by PapertrailApp ( as mentioned in the first line of README ) . I liked the Papertrail App UI, but didn't want to use cloud based solution.
  - dang 10y ago
    We've received a complaint that your project isn't just inspired by Papertrail but copies its UI wholesale. This seems to me a borderline case: your project seems legit in that it isn't just a ripoff of someone else's work, but the complaint seems legit too, because cloning their UI (including copying some CSS) is taking a lot more than inspiration. We've edited the title above to clarify this in a way that attempts to be fair and neutral. (The submitted title was 'Show HN: Logtrail – A Kibana plugin to view, search and tail logs and events'.)
    - avisk 10y ago
      Fair enough. The CSS file was not copied, but I tried to get the same style.
avisk 10y ago
I am the author of the plugin. This view is tailor made to view log files. Personally I didn't like using the Kibana table-views to view log files. Features like 1) Filter logs files from particular machine 2) Live tail 3) Seek to any time in log file (e.g. you can enter 'last friday' in seek window) 4) filter by program/app makes logtrail suitable for viewing and debugging log files. Moreover I always wanted a interface like this in Kibana to view all my log files in a single view :)

Any upsides to using this over a Table view in default kibana?

by yisheng 10y ago

Any upsides to using this over a Table view in default kibana?

By the looks of it, this seems to be a bit more flexible than the default table view, i might be wrong however because i never touched those.

coleca 10y ago

Yes, the live tail portion. With Kibana you'd have to refresh the page to see new logs come in. This is more like Papertrail. Looks like they pretty much copied the UI of papertrailapp.com as well from the screenshot, although it doesn't have the alerting functionality that Papertrail does. This looks like a cool alternative though to get live tailing if you're already on ELK.

courtewing 10y ago
It looks like the "live tail" logic is based on polling on an interval - how is that different than Kibana's auto-refresh feature in the timepicker?
avisk 10y ago
Yes the whole view inspired by PapertrailApp ( as mentioned in the first line of README ) . I liked the Papertrail App UI, but didn't want to use cloud based solution.
- dang 10y ago
  We've received a complaint that your project isn't just inspired by Papertrail but copies its UI wholesale. This seems to me a borderline case: your project seems legit in that it isn't just a ripoff of someone else's work, but the complaint seems legit too, because cloning their UI (including copying some CSS) is taking a lot more than inspiration. We've edited the title above to clarify this in a way that attempts to be fair and neutral. (The submitted title was 'Show HN: Logtrail – A Kibana plugin to view, search and tail logs and events'.)
  - avisk 10y ago
    Fair enough. The CSS file was not copied, but I tried to get the same style.

avisk 10y ago

I am the author of the plugin. This view is tailor made to view log files. Personally I didn't like using the Kibana table-views to view log files. Features like 1) Filter logs files from particular machine 2) Live tail 3) Seek to any time in log file (e.g. you can enter 'last friday' in seek window) 4) filter by program/app makes logtrail suitable for viewing and debugging log files. Moreover I always wanted a interface like this in Kibana to view all my log files in a single view :)