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May 24, 2022 · Big Data

How Vipshop Replaced ELK with ClickHouse for a Scalable, Low‑Cost Log System

Vipshop’s Dragonfly log platform evolved from a costly 260‑node Elasticsearch cluster to a ClickHouse‑based architecture that uses a unified JSON format, vfilebeat ingestion, Flink parsing, and MergeTree storage to achieve high‑throughput writes, fast vectorized queries, flexible TTL management, and dramatically lower operational expenses.