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Dev tools · January 18, 2023

Columnar store for fast, lightweight logging

Founder here, Parseable is a lightweight log ingestion and query engine written in Rust. Parseable can ingest data from existing logging agents (FluentBit, LogStash, Vector, syslog-ng and more) using HTTP + JSON output. Ingested logs are stored as semi-indexed Parquet files (on disk or S3). You can query the data with builtin query engine using SQL or use a query engines of choice like Spark, Presto, Trino and so on. We also developed a Grafana data source plugin that lets you visualise log data via Grafana. Sample dashboard link in readme. As log data grew, our industry has responded with…

Columnar store for fast, lightweight logging launched on January 18, 2023 with 15 votes, #1,314 of 3,901 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

In plain words

Parseable is a lightweight log ingestion and query engine built in Rust that accepts data from common logging agents via HTTP and JSON. It stores logs as semi-indexed Parquet files on disk or S3, then queries them using SQL through a built-in engine or external tools like Spark and Trino. The system includes a Grafana plugin for log visualization. Designed for developers and operations teams who want full control over log data without relying on managed services.

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From the sources

Parseable is an open source, unified infrastructure observability platform built in Rust on a data lake architecture. It tracks logs, metrics, traces, and events across apps, agents, and systems, reducing storage costs by up to 90% through columnar telemetry compression. - parseablehq/parseable

In the maker’s words, at launch

Founder here, Parseable is a lightweight log ingestion and query engine written in Rust. Parseable can ingest data from existing logging agents (FluentBit, LogStash, Vector, syslog-ng and more) using HTTP + JSON output. Ingested logs are stored as semi-indexed Parquet files (on disk or S3). You can query the data…

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