[willseth]

That’s what LogQL is, which is already in Loki. This is a new feature.

[hamandcheese]

LogQL is nothing like SQL. Try aggregating and quickly you'll be asking yourself wtf an instant query is and how is that different.

[willseth]

I mean, time series data is different from generic tabular data, so obviously there are impedance differences that are reflected in the query languages. I can see how some people might feel more at home using something even more like SQL, but there are a lot of common use cases where SQL is awkward and/or more verbose.

[hamandcheese]

Are logs time series data? That seems to be the thesis behind LogQL. But way more often than not I'm searching for a needle in a haystack, not charting trends over time.