Support ClickHouse instead of ElasticSearch + InfluxDB

[Slach]

https://clickhouse.yandex/docs/en/
it's a blazing fast columnar analytics database which can be used a metrics storage
with good compression and delta coding mechanism

[ti-mo]

Hi @Slach, thank you for the suggestion. Never used ClickHouse before.

As I have limited bandwidth, and I currently have no desire to add support for anything other than Prometheus, would you be willing to contribute? That said, there's a chance I might drop influxdb support sooner or later, focusing exclusively on ES (for historic totals) and Prometheus (for a combination of real-time and historical trends and rates).

[Slach]

ok. if you will support prometheus
I think it's enough
I will use VictoriaMetrics for long term storage

Maybe later I can contribute
Only if find free time

[mrbluecoat]

Any updates on Prometheus?

[ti-mo]

Thanks for the interest, haven't worked on this in a while. Might pick this back up around the end of the year, but I'd like us to finish kernel module CO-RE support in ebpf-go first. Then I can get rid of the hacky way conntracct targets different kernel versions, and we'd only support BTF-enabled kernels.

The elastic driver will probably be removed in favour of Clickhouse and Prometheus, but atm this project is far down on my list of priorities, sorry. I'm definitely happy to take any patches if you have any.