OpenObserve is a cloud-native observability platform that helps teams collect, store, and analyze operational telemetry from one system.
It combines log management, metrics, distributed tracing, and frontend monitoring, making it suitable for infrastructure monitoring, application observability, and troubleshooting across modern environments.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports OTLP ingestion for logs, metrics, and traces, along with other ingestion methods for collecting telemetry from a range of sources.
- Offers SQL querying and full-text search to explore data, investigate incidents, and analyze telemetry.
- Includes dashboards, visualizations, and alerting for monitoring real-time and historical data.
- Provides pipelines for transforming and routing data during ingestion or on a schedule.
- Stores stream data in Parquet format and supports local disk, S3-compatible storage, GCS/OSS, and Azure Blob Storage.
- Can be self-hosted as a single binary and also supports Kubernetes deployments for high availability.
- Includes frontend observability features such as performance monitoring, JavaScript error capture, session tracking, and session replay.
Website: github.com/openobserve/openobserve
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Developer: OpenObserve
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
OpenObserve is written in TypeScript and Rust. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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