# 👋 hello qryn

## 👋 meet qryn

**qryn** is an open-source project built on the idea of **polyglotism**, which is the ability to speak multiple languages. This unique approach allows it to be used with a wide range of different observability solutions and data sources through a *unified ingestion pipeline* for industry-standard data ingestion formats *(compatible with Loki, Prometheus, Elastic, Influx, OTLP, and others)* efficiently handling **logs, metrics and telemetry**, and transparently supporting popular query languages such as ***LogQL, PromQL and Tempo*** *\- and more coming!*

### 🚥 logs, metrics and tracing

You're probably familiar with these three categories of software instrumentation: *logs, metrics and tracing*. At the end of the day, they all represent a derivative of time series data. However, they're usually stored separately and often require different tools to process and access them. This means that we often have to deal with multiple data stores for each type of information, and often multiple data formats. A nightmare when it comes to correlation, control and compliance.

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1663755772407/oZifmVrVj.png align="left")

In **qryn** *all formats are reunited* with ClickHouse and automatically *cross-connected and correlated* out of the box - You data is instantly accessible through the numerous product integration APIs as well as directly through SQL queries for *advanced users*.

***TLDR; One system and one database for all of your data APIs at once***

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1663679540313/nKzPoxIeI.png align="left")

  

> It's a polyglot framework. No new formats to learn and adopt.

Unlike other observability frameworks, qryn does not come with yet another agent or format standard to collect data. Instead, our polyglot stack adopts standard *API and formats* natively integrated by popular agents *(Vector, Telegraf, Logstash, Grafana-Agent, Promtail, etc)* to collect logs, metrics, traces and time series using the same data formats as *Loki, InfluxDB, Elastic or Prometheus*.

You can then query those same time series in any language or tool you like.

> *Et voila'*

![qryn](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1423657/184538094-13c11500-24ef-4468-9f33-dc9d564238e3.gif align="left")

*TLDR; Bring your existing data Agent or pipe data from your current solution.*

  

### ⚡ It's FAST

**qryn** is extremely fast and can *ingest and process millions of data streams per second* on relatively modest hardware resources. The stack was designed as a smart, light overlay over **ClickHouse**, *an incredibly fast column-oriented OLAP database* powering qryn's ingestion and search capabilities. Behind the scenes, every supported query language gets *transpiled* into efficient and sophisticated *ClickHouse SQL queries*.

> INSERTING 500k/s/thread

Deploying on the cloud? **qryn** is natively compatible with any ClickHouse as-a-service provider our there such as **Altinity, DoubleCloud, Gigapipe** and *many others.*

  

### 🚀 Start using qryn today!

To get started, follow the easy instructions available at [qryn.dev](https://qryn.dev)

For a *full blown demo w/ sample data*, begin with our [polyglot docker](https://github.com/metrico/qryn-oss-demo) repository.

  

### Conclusion

**qryn** is a *polyglot observability framework* that makes it easy to use your favorite monitoring tools with any language or platform.

It's not requiring custom agents and formats, and delivers a complete stack you can plug into from your existing logging infrastructure, providing metrics and tracing to your favorite tools, out of the box.

**qryn** is available as **OSS** + **Cloud** versions and runs on *Kubernetes, docker as well as any other modern Linux environment* - so it doesn't matter if your app lives on AWS or Google cloud or on your dedicated infrastructure - *you can start qryn right away!*

#### ❤️ Made by Humans

This project is **made by humans**. Dig it? Please consider [sponsoring our team](https://github.com/sponsors/qxip)!

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>    *" When you can rely on things that the public already knows,  
>         you're dealing with Pop.”* ― **Nuno Roque** 💡