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>Is there currently a big market for new logging solutions? There is a market, but it's saturated with offerings. There are so many solutions out there right n
by macspoofing 4y ago
>Is there currently a big market for new logging solutions?
There is a market, but it's saturated with offerings. There are so many solutions out there right now for metrics and log aggregation.
>There will always be potential for a 'better mousetrap' to take some market share from existing solutions, but are current ones bad enough that a great solution could come in an capture significant market share? Or are today's systems 'good enough' that any new solution would face huge headwinds, even if it has some cool features?
I'm going to take a guess and say the latter. There are a lot good(enough) off-the-shelf and managed services, that another offering is going to have a very hard time breaking through.
>What is the biggest 'pain point' for people working with log data today?
Ingestion, transformation, indexing, querying, visualization - those are all pretty much solved problems and everyone has a good enough solution. For me, it's specialized/niche use-cases and workflow, where the gaps are. For example, is your logging managed service able to be a drop-in HIPAA compliant solution (are individual customer logs physically segregated at the host level? Do you support automatic detection of Personal Health Information? Do you have an audited workflow to remove or deidentify, in batch, the offending logs. Do you support specialized access and dashboards to my customers so that they can see metrics and logs for their site? Do you support air-gapped, enterprise, on-prem deployments?).