Humio

What do you like best?

Now that Humio has been set up up by our platform team, all logs from all further applications and deployments are being streamed to Humio without the need for any additional configuration at the application level, which is fantastic. We develop on top of Kubernetes, and as well as application logs, we get platform logs, so we can debug and monitor the whole stack. The handling of structured logs is also really nice. Humio automatically parses many formats, and you can write your own custom log parsing rules. Once your logs are being parsed correctly, you can filter and display specific fields from your logs, and save the results into persistent, live dashboards for your applications.

What do you dislike?

The only thing I dislike about Humio is the UI. Scrolling through your logs to find relevant messages can be tough unless you've set up quite a few filters. Each page of logs contains only contains 200 lines, which, for any significant application, is not much. I don't know if it's just my browser, but I find the pagination painfully slow! This aspect of the UI is the only downside. It can be mitigated by smart filtering, but I still find it a bit awkward to wait for the next page of logs to load.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Used structured logging to make the most of Humio.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

I use Humio to debug my applications and view my application logs. On top of that, I use humio to take advantage of structured logging and build persistent dashboards for different projects, so I can monitor my the running of my applications over time.