skippbox vs loki

skippbox

A Desktop application for k8s (by skippbox)

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loki

Like Prometheus, but for logs. (by grafana)

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skippbox		loki
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1	Mentions	80
58	Stars	22,213
-	Growth	4.0%
10.0	Activity	9.9
almost 8 years ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

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skippbox

Posts with mentions or reviews of skippbox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-15.

Top 200 Kubernetes Tools for DevOps Engineer Like You
84 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2022

Minikube - minikube implements a local Kubernetes cluster KubeSphere - Easy-to-use Production Ready Container Platform https://kubesphere.io skippbox - A Desktop application for k8s kind - Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/ k3d - k3d is a lightweight wrapper to run k3s (Rancher Lab’s minimal Kubernetes distribution) in docker.

loki

Posts with mentions or reviews of loki. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.

Loki 3.0 Released
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2024
List of your reverse proxied services
29 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 Dec 2023

I also needed to make a small patch to Promtail to make this work: https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/10256
About reading logs
2 projects | /r/sysadmin | 28 Sep 2023

We don't pull logs, we forward logs to a centralized logging service.
loki VS openobserve - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 30 Aug 2023
Logs monitoring with Loki, Node.js and Fastify.js
4 projects | dev.to | 12 Jun 2023

Over the past few months, I've been spending a lot of time creating dashboards on Grafana using Loki for MyUnisoft (the company I work for).
OpenObserve: Open source Elasticsearch alternative in Rust for logs. 140x lower storage cost
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 7 Jun 2023

For log systems you generally don't migrate data. Logs lose value over time. What you want to do is to go ahead and start ingesting data into the new system (OpenObserve in this case) and slowly, the data in the old system will become stale and then you can retire it. However if you need to export logs anyhow, there is no straightforward way in loki to do this. You could run a script to query loki and export it to a file. If found this thread with a sample script - https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/409
Config files of snaps?
1 project | /r/Ubuntu | 30 May 2023

That snap is woefully out of date. The upstream repo was recently updated to 2.8.2, but the snap stable channel has 2.4.1 from 18 months ago. https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v2.8.2
i need to visualize all logs from remote dir
3 projects | /r/sysadmin | 19 May 2023

Loki
Loki Helm charts that use DynamoDB
1 project | /r/grafana | 28 Apr 2023
I can't recommend serious use of an all-in-one local Grafana Loki setup
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Apr 2023

I installed promtail a few weeks back and I ran into this bug, that has been outstanding for months: https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/8663 (e.g. a fix had been written but had not been released):
Due to a buffering issue, Loki would exit in case of configuration error without printing any error message or anything at all
There is definitely something weird about how the project is run.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing skippbox and loki you can also consider the following projects:

kubectx - Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl

ClickHouse - ClickHouse® is a free analytics DBMS for big data

thanos - Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.

fluent-bit - Fast and Lightweight Logs and Metrics processor for Linux, BSD, OSX and Windows

Zabbix - Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud.

VictoriaMetrics - VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

ElastiFlow - Network flow analytics (Netflow, sFlow and IPFIX) with the Elastic Stack

loki-multi-tenant-proxy - Grafana Loki multi-tenant Proxy. Needed to deploy Grafana Loki in a multi-tenant way

oauth2-proxy - A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.

cortex - A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.

mtail - extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection in a timeseries database

Typesense - Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences