Logchef
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…
Logchef launched on August 10, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,590 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Logchef 2.0 turns the logs you already keep in ClickHouse or VictoriaLogs into a complete, self-hosted analytics workspace. Search with portable LogchefQL or native SQL/LogsQL, live-tail events, build mixed-source dashboards, create alerts, and investigate through the CLI, MCP server, or AI query assistant. It ships as one binary, works with your existing ingestion pipeline and schema, and includes OIDC, RBAC, teams, and scoped service tokens in the open-source build.
Search, live tail, dashboards, and alerts for logs stored in ClickHouse or VictoriaLogs. One open-source, self-hosted binary with no new log storage layer.
Search, tail, visualize, and alert on logs without adding another log storage layer. Logchef runs as a single self-hosted binary and queries the data already in your infrastructure. VictoriaLogs is now a first-class datasource, and dashboards can combine it with ClickHouse on the same grid. The backend changes; the investigation workflow does not. Mix ClickHouse and VictoriaLogs panels on one grid. Stats, time series, breakdowns, and tables share the same time range and refresh together. Explore VictoriaLogs with the same field-first workflow as ClickHouse, then switch to native LogsQL whenever an investigation needs backend-specific power. Use LogchefQL across every source, or switch to…from logchef.app
In the maker’s words, at launch
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…
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