About ClickVisual
ClickVisual is a lightweight, browser-based platform for log analysis and search, built on top of the ClickHouse database. It was created by the team at ShimoDocs and positions itself as a simpler tool for working with logs stored in ClickHouse, in the space where people often reach for Kibana and the ELK stack.
The interface offers a visual query dashboard with a histogram and raw log view, SQL-based querying, and percentage breakdowns for chosen fields. A VS Code style configuration board lets you push Fluent Bit configuration to a Kubernetes ConfigMap. It includes alarm workflows, and the documentation mentions login through GitHub and GitLab.
ClickVisual is written in Go and released under the MIT licence. It can be deployed with kubectl, which the project describes as out of the box, or installed with Docker or directly on a host, and documentation is published on its website. It suits platform and SRE teams that already collect logs into ClickHouse and want a straightforward UI for searching them without heavy infrastructure.
Key features
- Visual log query dashboard with histogram
- SQL queries over raw logs
- Field value percentage breakdowns
- Fluent Bit config editor for Kubernetes
- Alarm workflows for log events
- GitHub and GitLab authentication
Good fit for
- →Searching Kubernetes logs stored in ClickHouse
- →Replacing a heavier ELK deployment
- →Setting up alerts on log patterns
- Tags
- log-analytics
- clickhouse
- log-search
- kubernetes
- observability
- go
- dashboards
- alerting
- elk-alternative
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