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Zinc

Fast, scalable open-source observability platform for logs, metrics, and traces

NOASSERTION Free prabhatsharma/zinc · 18K zincsearch.com Go

Overview

ZincSearch . A lightweight alternative to elasticsearch that requires minimal resources, written in Go. Fast, scalable and cost-effective open source observability platform. Monitor logs, metrics & traces with 140x lower storage costs than Elasticsearch. Start in 2 minutes. ❗Note: If your use case is of log search (app and security logs) instead of app search (implement search feature in your application or website) then you should check openobserve/openobserve project built in rust that is specifically built for log search use case. The project has 18K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under NOASSERTION.

Key Features

Source: GitHub README

  • Provides full text indexing capability
  • Single binary for installation and running. Binaries available under releases for multiple platforms.
  • Web UI for querying data written in Vue
  • Compatibility with Elasticsearch APIs for ingestion of data (single record and bulk API)
  • Out of the box authentication
  • Schema less - No need to define schema upfront and different documents in the same index can have different fields.
  • Index storage in disk
  • aggregation support

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

elasticsearch.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel
elestio

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo
pikapods

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Category

Databases & Data Tools (122)

Replaces

Algolia
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