How shredding JSON is giving Logfire 1000x query speedups
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# Preface Querying data in Logfire is about to get dramatically faster. Consider >1,000 times faster in some cases. Queries that previously timed out after 30 seconds now complete in under a second. "Seeing much faster <customer_attribute> query times! Feels basically instant now", says an early access customer This technical blog post details how we achieved this through dynamic shredding, an optimization for querying semi-structured attributes data. We'll begin to roll out this feature to all customers in February 2026.
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Adrian Garcia Badaracco