Agreed - Loki was heavily influenced by OKLog. We really like its ease of use and simplicity - hopefully we managed to get some of that right with Loki. OTOH

Agreed - Loki was heavily influenced by OKLog. We really like its ease of use and simplicity - hopefully we managed to get some of that right with Loki. OTOH we felt like we needed a little bit of metadata and index to help find the right logs - the brute force approach of only having grep doesn't seem like the right tradeoff to me. We use a minimal label index to narrow down the search space + then let you do distributed grep... There is a lightweight CLI for Loki too, you don't have to use the Grafana UI: https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/master/docs/logcli.md https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/master/docs/logcli.md