OpenObserve
OpenObserve is an open source observability platform designed for high-performance monitoring of logs, metrics, and traces at petabyte scale. It offers fast search, low storage costs, and integrations with cloud-native environments like Kubernetes. Ideal for DevOps teams seeking scalable, cost-effective observability solutions.
Overview
10 featuresOpenObserve is an Other observability project. It focuses on monitoring and troubleshooting logs, metrics, and traces without the storage cost and complexity of traditional observability platforms. It is built as a B2B product for software engineering and SRE teams. The project is open source (AGPL-3.0). It runs on the web and API, and it can be self-hosted.
OpenObserve builds and maintains OpenObserve, and it first shipped in 2023. The project is developed in the open on GitHub with 19.3k stars and 670 commits in the last 90 days. Key capabilities include log management, metrics monitoring, and trace analysis. It exposes integrations via a public API.
Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.
- Log management
- Metrics monitoring
- Trace analysis
- Service graphs
- Signal correlation
- Incident investigation
- SLO monitoring
- AI SRE agent
- Alerting
- Self-hosting
Built with & integrations
- AWS
- x-amz-cf-id header · x-amz-cf-pop header · via header
- Vue
- bdata-v- in the HTML
- Astro
- astro-island in the HTML · /_astro/ in the HTML
Trust & compliance
Indexing history
4What PulseGate has recorded for this listing
- Indexed3 Sept · 18:07 UTCClickHouse vs. OpenObserve for Logs, Metrics and Traces (2026) verified via Hacker News firehose (Algolia)Source: Hacker News firehose (Algolia) · Open
- Indexed17 Aug · 19:42 UTCWe benchmarked Prometheus, Mimir, and OpenObserve on 1.09M metrics series verified against its public sourceSource: PulseGate · Open
- Indexed29 Jun · 22:53 UTCBloom Filter Trick Reduces 170 Object-Storage Reads to One (2.6s → 89ms) verified against its public sourceSource: PulseGate · Open
Frequently asked questions about OpenObserve
- What is OpenObserve?
- OpenObserve focuses on monitoring and troubleshooting logs, metrics, and traces without the storage cost and complexity of traditional observability platforms. It is catalogued under Other observability on PulseGate.
- Who should use OpenObserve?
- OpenObserve is a B2B product built for software engineering and SRE teams.
- Does OpenObserve have a free plan?
- Yes — OpenObserve is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license and free to use.
- What platforms does OpenObserve run on?
- OpenObserve runs on the web and API. It can also be self-hosted.
- Is OpenObserve still active?
- The GitHub repository shows 670 commits in the last 90 days.
- Who develops OpenObserve?
- OpenObserve is developed by OpenObserve.
- When did OpenObserve launch?
- OpenObserve first shipped in 2023.
- Is OpenObserve open source?
- Yes — OpenObserve is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license, developed on GitHub.
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