Hi David,
The 'ingest and search logs' use case for a search engine is a
relatively new development - at least it wasn't talked about much before
Elasticsearch appeared. Elastic put a lot of effort into pushing
Elasticsearch as a Splunk alternative and with Logstash and Kibana for
ingestion a
The popularity of Solr has waned in recent years with Elasticsearch taking much
of the "market share".
I believe an important factor in this is the lack of options for forwarding
logs to Solr.
Most of the log forwarding options target Elasticsearch out of the box. Splunk
has its own dedicated u
