Logs are an integral part of any system that helps you get information about the application state and how it handles its operations. The goal of this

SigNoz - Logs Performance Benchmark

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Logs are an integral part of any system that helps you get information about the application state and how it handles its operations. The goal of this blog is to compare the commonly used logging solutions, i.e., ElasticSearch (ELK stack) and Loki (PLG stack), with SigNoz on three parameters: ingestion, query, and storage.

Though the performance benchmarks in our tests represent a very specific scenario and use cases, our results seem to directionally agree with what other observability teams have reported, especially wrt. Elastic stack.

Many big companies like Uber and Cloudflare have been shifting to ClickHouse as their main workhorse for Logs management seeing much better performance. for e.g Cloudflare recently shifted from Elastic to ClickHouse and are seeing 8x improvement in memory/cpu resource requirement in ingestion.

Performance benchmarks are not easy to execute. Each tool has nuances, and the testing environments must aim to provide a level playing field for all tools. We have tried our best to be transparent about the setup and configurations used in this performance benchmark. We are open to receiving feedback from the community on what can be done better. Please feel free to create issues in the following repo.

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