On 05/10/2016 12:37 PM, Tony Cesaro wrote:
One of the big selling features for me was the fact that we can deploy heka as an agent or a server, with the same executable and configure it to assume the role of one or the other (or both). Splitting these into separate executables would be a negative in my opinion.
Yes, being able to use the same executable in both places is great. And, ultimately, I'd hope that you still could, except with Hindsight as the executable rather than Heka.
One of Hindsight's weak points right now, however, is the lack of existing I/O plugins that "just work". LogstreamerInput in particular contains a lot of useful code for watching and ingesting log files. Porting all of that code to the Lua sandbox to work as a Hindsight input would be a fair bit of effort. Having a standalone Logstreamer binary that can emit its output to a local Hindsight instance is an possible transitional solution that some might find useful.
Another point I wanted to clarify is whether heka is somehow "going away," which I would assume isn't the case. We've never seen capacity issues with heka itself (though we've never pushed it to extreme limits) and it's been much less bug prone than Logstash, so we're going to keep using it for the indefinite future. We may upgrade to 0.10 just to get some of the disk buffering features, but with the Lua sandbox, there aren't any immediately foreseeable problems on the monitoring infrastructure that I can see not solving with it. To summarize my question, it's not being deleted from GitHub and Read the Docs, is it?
No, we have no intention of removing the existing Heka repositories or documentation. If it's working well for you, it should continue to work well for you. In fact, I even have plans to do a bit more work on it, and to make another handful of releases. I just wanted to share the full state of affairs with everyone, so people can evaluate whether or not to use it with the full picture in mind.
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