Logchef – Open-source schema-agnostic log viewer for ClickHouse

Show HN: Logchef – Open-source schema-agnostic log viewer for ClickHouse

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Hey HN, I'm Karan. I built Logchef because we moved our log workloads to ClickHouse at Zerodha and found the ecosystem lacking for actual log exploration.Tools like Metabase and Grafana are great for dashboards, but log exploration is a different workflow.The Grafana ClickHouse plugin requires manual column configuration for logs, has no field sidebar, and its ad-hoc filters are slow on large tables. Grafana's RBAC is Enterprise-only, and even then it's datasource-level and not at table-level. If someone has access to the ClickHouse datasource, they can query any table. In Logchef, you create Sources (pointing to specific tables) and assign them to Teams. Team A only sees their logs, Team B

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Website: logchef.app