Single-binary store for logs, metrics and traces on object storage, with SQL search, dashboards and alerts. Self-host the open source build or use the pay-as-you-go cloud.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Open source
- Yes (AGPL-3.0-only)
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Launched
- 2023
- Status
- Active
- Website
- openobserve.ai
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Observability platforms checklist
9 of 10 confirmed in OpenObserve's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Platforms.
- OpenTelemetry (OTLP) ingest Yes
- Metrics Yes
- Logs Yes
- Distributed traces Yes
- APM Yes
- Real user monitoring Yes
- Synthetic checks Yes
- Continuous profiling Not confirmed
- Built-in alerting Yes
- SLO tracking Yes
No continuous profiling found
Checked against: github.com, openobserve.ai, openobserve.ai (2), openobserve.ai (3), openobserve.ai (4)
Log management checklist
9 of 10 confirmed in OpenObserve's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Logs.
- Full-text search Yes
- Structured log parsing Yes
- OTLP logs ingest Yes
- Log alerts Yes
- Live tail Not confirmed
- Metrics from logs Yes
- Archive or tiered retention Yes
- Dashboards Yes
- Query language Yes
- Access control Yes
RBAC is Enterprise edition; no live tail found in docs
Checked against: github.com, openobserve.ai, openobserve.ai (2)
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