[MuffinFlavored]

I would totally use this for really small hobbyist level stuff if it had something that "plugged" right into it as "pretty" and "feature full" and "easy to use" as Kibana.

From what I could tell clicking through its links on GitHub... it has no UI offering? It's just an API?

I guess technically that does compare 1:1 with Elasticsearch but...

ELK is what most people think of when they think of Elasticearch, right? aka... full blown stack complete with UI

This just gets the backend piece done from what I can tell. Any frontends that plug into it?

[snikolaev]

Manticore is going to be a drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch in the ELK stack. The demo of Kibana visualizing Manticore can be seen here https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-alternative-to-el... . This functionality is available in beta stage.