Overview

OpenObserve is an open-source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, and frontend monitoring. A cost-effective alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment. Fast, scalable and cost-effective open source observability platform. Monitor logs, metrics & traces with 140x lower storage costs than Elasticsearch. Start in 2 minutes. Open source Datadog alternative for logs, metrics, traces, and frontend monitoring. Modern observability platform: 10x easier, 140x lower storage cost, high performance, petabyte scale. The project has 18K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

Thousands of concurrent users can query a single cluster simultaneously
Single binary scales to terabytes - unique in the observability space
High Availability mode scales to petabytes for the most demanding workloads
Multi-region deployments with cluster federation via Super Cluster architecture (Enterprise feature)
Federated search across regions and clusters (Enterprise feature)
Capacity planning tools to size deployments for your workload

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

binary, docker, elasticsearch, ldap, npm, sso.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Features

Authentication & Access

LDAP / Active Directory
Single Sign-On (SSO)

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