Dmitry Frank

Nerdlog, or How I Implemented a Radically Simple Alternative to Graylog

dfrank — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:29:49 +0000

Nerdlog, or How I Implemented a Radically Simple Alternative to Graylog May 2025 Back in 2022, my team and I were working on a service which was printing a fairly sizeable amount of logs from a distributed cluster of 20+ hosts: about 2-3 million log messages per hour in total. We were using Graylog, and querying those logs for an hour was taking no more than 1-3 seconds, so it was pretty quick.

My apps

dfrank — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:59:24 +0000

* about About me My apps * Nerdlog: fast, remote-first, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram and no central server, or how I implemented a radically simple alternative to Graylog (Go) * Salmon: a tray icon and desktop alerts for failing systemd services and anything else (Go, Rust) * Geekmarks: an Open-Source, API-driven, geeky bookmarking service (Go) * Connect Four 3D: a virtual 3D board game (Rust) * Bot Terminal: a crossplatform utility that performs binary data exc…

Salmon: a tray icon and desktop alerts for failing systemd services and anything else

dfrank — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:00:59 +0000

Salmon: a tray icon and desktop alerts for failing systemd services and anything else Salmon is a simple monitoring utility which checks the health of your local machine and/or remote server(s), and helps you notice timely if something is wrong. Project history and naming

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Poems

dfrank — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:03:04 +0000

Poems To my own surprise, at some point I suddenly found myself writing poetry. * * * I am the anchor, firm, at rest She is the wave who can't be guessed I am the tree whose roots run deep She is the bird no branch can keep Her chaos sings, my presence stays A dance of anchors, winds, and waves Together, held in give and take The sea, the sky, the world we make

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dfrank — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:32:45 +0000

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Yesterday (amateur cover with my own silly lyrics)

dfrank — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:39:39 +0000

Yesterday (amateur cover with my own silly lyrics) I mess with guitar as a hobby sometimes. I never really dabbed into writing lyrics, but this is what I suddenly came up with in September 2025: The backstory for the lyrics is pretty mysterious. I'll leave it for another day.

Yesterday (amateur cover with my own silly lyrics)

dfrank — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:14:23 +0000

Yesterday (amateur cover with my own silly lyrics) I mess with guitar as a hobby sometimes. I never really dabbed into writing lyrics, but this is what I suddenly came up with in September 2025: The backastory for the lyrics is kinda mysterious. In case you're interested, here we go.

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dfrank — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:29:51 +0000

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