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Shieldlix Observability

Full observability platform with log, metric, and trace ingestion. SLOs, dashboards, alerting, and pipeline management.

Architecture

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Technology Stack

Rust
Core runtime - memory-safe, zero-cost abstractions, no garbage collector
Axum
HTTP framework - type-safe routing, tower middleware, WebSocket support
Tokio
Async runtime - work-stealing scheduler, millions of concurrent I/O operations
Quickwit
Full-text search engine - log indexing and search with BM25 ranking
ClickHouse
Columnar analytics - metric aggregation, trace duration analysis
Kafka
Event streaming - telemetry pipeline with exactly-once semantics
Next.js 16
React 19 SSR/SSG - streaming, server components, optimistic UI
React 19
UI framework - concurrent rendering, transitions, Suspense

Core Features

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Log Ingestion

Batch log events with severity, source, service, environment, and custom fields.

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Metric Ingestion

Batch metric samples with labels, units, and exemplar trace linkage.

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Trace Ingestion

Batch trace spans with parent-child relationships, duration, status, and attributes.

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SLOs

Service-level objective monitoring with health status and burn rate alerting.

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Dashboards

CRUD dashboards with panel queries, time-range support, and variables.

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Alert Rules

Threshold, search result, SLO burn rate, missing data, and anomaly alerts.

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Pipelines

Manage data ingestion pipelines with status, event rate, error rate, and steps.

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Datasets

Manage datasets with kind (logs/metrics/traces), storage tier (hot/warm/cold), retention.

Three Pillars of Observability

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Logs

Structured log events with severity, source, service, and custom fields

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Metrics

Numeric measurements with labels, units, and trace exemplars

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Traces

Distributed trace spans with parent-child relationships and durations

Additional Capabilities

Async Search Jobs
Ingest Health Tracking
Service Health
Trace Inspection
Storage Summary
Query Budget
Export Jobs (JSON/CSV/Parquet)
Replay Jobs
Audit Trail

How Shieldlix Compares

Feature
Shieldlix
Datadog
New Relic
Grafana
Pricing
Free. No per-host or per-GB fees.
$0.10–$0.50/GB ingested. $23/host/mo.
$0.35/GB ingested. $100/full platform user/mo.
Free tier + paid Grafana Cloud starting $8/mo.
Architecture
Rust backend + Next.js 16. Self-hosted, no lock-in.
Cloud SaaS. Proprietary agent + collectors.
Cloud SaaS. Single-platform approach.
Open-source stack (Loki, Tempo, Mimir) + Cloud.
Log Management
Quickwit full-text + ClickHouse analytics. Sub-second.
Log Management with indexing. 15-day retention free.
Logs in context with NRQL querying.
Grafana Loki - label-indexed. Cost-efficient.
Metrics
ClickHouse columnar storage. High-cardinality support.
15-second granularity. 15-month retention.
Dimensional metrics with NRQL.
Grafana Mimir - horizontally scalable Prometheus.
Distributed Tracing
OpenTelemetry-native. Span ingestion with parent-child.
APM with automatic instrumentation. Code-level.
Distributed tracing with service maps.
Grafana Tempo - traceQL, no indexing required.
SLOs
Burn rate alerting. Custom SLO targets.
SLO tracking with error budgets.
Service levels with NRQL-based targets.
SLO management in Grafana Cloud.
Dashboards
CRUD dashboards with panel queries, time-range, variables.
400+ integrations. Pre-built dashboards.
Programmatic dashboards with NRQL.
Industry-leading visualization. 100+ data sources.
Alerting
Threshold, SLO burn rate, missing data, anomaly alerts.
Multi-window, multi-condition alerts.
NRQL-based alert conditions.
Unified alerting with Grafana Alerting.
Deployment
Docker Compose + K8s. Self-hosted. No vendor lock-in.
Cloud SaaS. Agent install required.
Cloud SaaS or self-hosted (有限).
Self-hosted or Grafana Cloud.
OpenTelemetry
Native OTel support. Vendor-agnostic.
OTel support + proprietary agent.
OTel support. Preferred NR agent.
OTel-native. Aligned with LGTM stack.

Cost Comparison

Annual observability platform costs by log volume. Shieldlix is always free.

Daily Volume
Datadog
New Relic
Grafana
Shieldlix
100 GB/day logs
$21,900/yr
$12,775/yr
$3,600/yr
$0
500 GB/day logs
$109,500/yr
$63,875/yr
$18,000/yr
$0
1 TB/day logs
$219,000/yr
$127,750/yr
$36,000/yr
$0

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Datadog charges $0.10–$0.50/GB. Shieldlix is free.

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