Parseable on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Azure Observability

Parseable, an open source log analytics and observability platform: ship logs, metrics, traces and events over an HTTP API and explore them in a built in web UI with a SQL query engine.

Base
Hardened build
minimal ports, security patches applied at build time
Access
Unique credentials
generated on first boot, readable only by root
Verified
Boots working
services pass a health gate before release
Support
24/7, 365 days
by email and live chat, 24 hour response SLA

Overview

Parseable is an open source, self hosted log analytics and observability platform built in Rust on a data lake architecture. You point your logs, metrics, traces and events at its HTTP ingest API, then explore them in a built in web interface backed by a SQL query engine. It is a lean, cost efficient alternative to Elasticsearch or Splunk that compresses columnar telemetry to keep storage small, so a single instance can hold a lot of history.

It suits engineering, platform and security teams who want a private observability store on infrastructure they control, collecting telemetry from applications, agents and systems without sending it to a third party.

Why the cloudimg image

cloudimg delivers Parseable fully installed and configured in local storage mode, so all telemetry stays on the instance's own disk with no external object store or database to run, behind an nginx reverse proxy that terminates TLS. It is secure by default: Parseable ships an admin over admin default login, and cloudimg never exposes it. The server binds to loopback only, and first boot mints a unique per instance admin password and a per instance TLS certificate before the service is reachable, writing the credentials to a file only root can read, with the default login proven rejected, so no two machines share a secret. The base is fully patched with unattended security updates enabled, and every image comes with a step by step deploy guide tested against the exact build and 24/7 cloudimg support.

Common uses

  • A private, self hosted log analytics store as a lean alternative to Elasticsearch or Splunk
  • Centralising logs, metrics, traces and events from applications, agents and systems
  • Querying telemetry with SQL and exploring it in a built in web interface

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.

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