It’s out! You can go download a binary on the GitHub release page and follow the Getting Started instructions.

As mentioned in the previous post, the major features are

• Query language
• UI
• Generic JSON CloudWatch Logs support

There’s also a new website for the project at cistern.github.io with some documentation about how it works. There will be more documentation coming soon.

Up next

Some things I want to see in the next version are

• More filter operators (greater than, less than, regular expressions)
• GROUP BYs with functions. That way you can GROUP BY 5xx status codes, for example.
• Cleaner logging from the binary
• Error reporting from the UI