ClickStack Demo Day (2026-09-04) - An Explore prototype

This is exploratory work, with no commitment to ship it. The prototype is a single Explore page that would replace both the search page and the chart explorer. It's in draft in the HyperDX repo. If it turns out well it might replace the existing pages, it might sit alongside them as a third page, or nothing might come of it. The problem it goes after is moving between the two pages we have. Customers tell us that carrying a question from search into the chart explorer is awkward: you often have to reselect the data source and rebuild the same query on the other side. Explore keeps everything on one page instead, with the view switching between events, patterns, deltas and charts rather than the page changing under you. The second theme is lowering the barrier for people who aren't fluent in the query languages. Adding a column to the table, sorting, and choosing a group-by are drop-downs, with SQL still there when you want it. Group-by is a good example of the gap today: the histogram on the search page is grouped by status code with no way to change it, so anyone wanting a different grouping has to leave for the chart explorer. Here you set the group-by in the events view, switch to a time series or bar chart when the small histogram isn't enough, change the aggregation to something like p99, and save the result to a dashboard. The filter bar is a small query builder that abstracts away both Lucene and SQL: pick a field, pick an operator, type a value, with the full query editor and macros available for advanced users. Whether having both Lucene and SQL is the right answer at all is an open question. Plenty is unanswered. There's no PromQL yet, and it isn't settled whether metrics belong on this page or whether that asks too much of one page. The prototype focuses on the logs and traces experience today. We'd love to get feedback on this. Part of the ClickStack Demo Day series. See the full post at https://clickhouse.com/docs/use-cases/observability/clickstack/demo-days/2026/2026-09-04