Hindsight is a C based data processing infrastructure based on the lua sandbox project. I have received several inquiries about a lighter weight and faster data pipeline with delivery guarantees to replace Heka. Hindsight is that light weight skeleton around the same lua sandbox offering 'at least once' delivery semantics.

• Full Documentation
• Support
  • IRC: #hindsight on irc.mozilla.org
  • Mailing list: https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/hindsight

• Clang 3.1 or GCC 4.7+
• CMake (3.0+) - http://cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
• lua_sandbox (1.1+) - https://github.com/mozilla-services/lua_sandbox

git clone https://github.com/mozilla-services/hindsight.git
cd hindsight
mkdir release
cd release

# Linux
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release ..
make
ctest
cpack -G TGZ # (DEB|RPM|ZIP)

# Cross platform support is planned but not supported yet

• The master branch is the current release and is considered stable at all times.
• New versions can be released as frequently as every two weeks (our sprint cycle). The only exception would be for a high priority patch.
• All active work is flagged with the sprint milestone and tracked in the project dashboard.
• New releases occur the day after the sprint finishes.
  • The version in the dev branch is updated
  • The changes are merged into master
  • A new tag is created

• All pull requests must be made against the dev branch, direct commits to master are not permitted.
• All non trivial contributions should start with an issue being filed (if it is a new feature please propose your design/approach before doing any work as not all feature requests are accepted).