This is one of those projects destined to end up in a drawer or only live for a few days. I had a lot of NetFlow data on hand and came up with the idea of writing a chatbot to query that data using natural language. Since I’d never built a chatbot before, why not? Up until now, I mostly worked on models with OpenAI or Azure. I wasn’t too keen on exposing my NetFlow data to public models, so I ran the model on my own server. Plus, it just so happened that the news about the Chinese model DeepSeek had just broken that week. Ultimately, the data doesn’t even get sent to the model—they don’t need to since everything is stored in a local ElasticStack. Although the concept changed mid-development, my desire to use a local model remained. A few people asked for more details about the project and the code to be shared, so I invite you to read on and check out the repository.