I'm a bit confused about the logs view. When I choose "Last 1 hour", "Last 5 minutes" in the logs view, what does that actually give me? On my installation, choosing either one gives me 3 day old logs. What does it actually filter on?

This is not much useful if you have continuous logs coming in. If you specify a filter with a few logs that came the last day only. Such dropdown will be useful.

but what field does the filter actually apply to? Intuitively it would filter based on the timestamp.

yes..yes

I have a setup where I run vanilla otel-collector-contrib and export logs via OTLP to signoz

I didn't get you. You mean you can see logs that happened 3 days back when the selected filter is 1 hour?

yes

It's weird. Can you share the complete API request curl from the network tab?

sec

I pressed refresh, and now I get nothing again

I think this is a bug. Can you show request payload when you see last 3 days data?

I will try but it's hard to reproduce

you can use logging exporter at signoz to verify logs are being received by signoz https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tree/main/exporter/loggingexporter#note

tried that. I even added an operator

-type: stdout

to the

filelog

receiver, but I still get nothing. I tried this locally and it worked fine.