Hi guys, I was exploring Signoz, but more specific...
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Hi guys, I was exploring Signoz, but more specifically the query service and the frontend. We already have our own clickhouse with vector agent sending logs to clickhouse.. My use case for Signoz is to fetch those and visualize on signoz, hence the need for just query and frontend. I tried to get both the containers up and running, and they are. But there is nothing I am able to do. I have attached image, please check and let me know.. And I have a few questions: 1. Can I just use the query service and frontend in production, without any issues? (I literally did not setup anything else, not even alert manager) 2. How can I get the query service to fetch the logs from our database (Schema is not based on OTEL data model and DB names are not signoz_logs or anything) and visualize in the logs explorer? Because I can't find any config file or anything in frontend to setup that. 3. we need prometheus.yml only if we use the alert manager feature, am I right? or do we need it basically for query service? It would really be great to get some help here and get the queries sorted. I'd really appreciate it, Thanks in advance :)
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You would need schema specific to signoz. You should use SigNoz's otel-collectors before writing to clickhouse too.
it will be difficult to make it work with another clickhouse instance now as SigNoz need to manage clickhouse and ideally it should have a separate clickhouse of it's own to manage config and ops
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Thanks for the reply @Ankit Nayan Will it work if we modify the reader.go file (https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/blob/develop/pkg/query-service/app/clickhouseReader/reader.go) and use our database and table here? Such that the query service would use it to query for the logs? Please let me know :)
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No @Sriram P , there are a lot of things tied between the UI and our signoz logs schema. If you are sending logs from Vector, you can use the vector receiver. Right now it’s only available on signoz cloud, but we will release it for our open source users soon https://signoz.io/docs/logs-management/send-logs/vector-logs-to-signoz/
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Okay, got it. Thanks @nitya-signoz