openobserve
The premium Open Source alternative to Datadog
🎯 Best for:High-volume log ingestion scenarios
What is openobserve?
A high-performance observability suite replacing Elasticsearch for logs, metrics, and traces with significantly lower storage costs. Written in Rust, it offers a stateless architecture that scales to petabytes without heavy indexing overhead.
Tech Stack
TypeScriptMonitoring & Logs
Why openobserve?
- • 140x lower storage cost
- • Single binary deployment
- • SQL-based querying
Limitations
- • Newer ecosystem
- • Limited visualization widgets
- • Community support reliance
3/5/2026
Last Update
740
Forks
636
Issues
AGPL-3.0
License
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Competitor Cost
-$1,440
/ year (est. based on Datadog)
Self-Hosted
$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
150+
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