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OpenObserve
Company blog · openobserve.ai/blog · on HN as prabhatsharmaprogrammingdata
OpenObserve is the company blog at openobserve.ai, writing about programming and data. Since 2023, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “We ran 2.2B samples through Prometheus, Mimir, and OpenObserve”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Readers link OpenObserve as a self-hostable, single-binary observability platform for logs, metrics and traces, often suggested as an easy-to-run alternative to heavier monitoring stacks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
High-performance, unified observability for the AI era. 140x lower storage cost.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-08-28
- We ran 2.2B samples through Prometheus, Mimir, and OpenObserve2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-17
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-19
- OpenObserve Raises $10M Series A2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-29
- /blog/sso-tax2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-23
- Unveiling OpenObserve, the High-Performance, Cloud-Native Platform2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-05
What Hacker News says?
You might look into https://openobserve.ai/ - you can self host it and it's a single binary that ingests logs/metrics/traces. I've found it useful for my side projects.
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on “Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns”Submitted We ran 2.2B samples through Prometheus, Mimir, and OpenObserve as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt doesn't read from files unfortunately, but https://openobserve.ai/ is very easy to set up locally (single binary) and send otel logs/metrics/traces to. Here's how I run it locally for my little shovel project - https://github.com/bbkane/shovel#run-the-webapp-locally-with... . Also linked from that README is an Ansible playbook to start OpenObserve as a systems service on a Linux VM. Alternatively, see the shovel…
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on “The current state of OpenTelemetry”Submitted What are Apache, GPL and AGPL licenses – misconceptions, lies, facts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere's also https://openobserve.ai , while not as stable as Grafana/Prometheus/Clickhouse, feels a bit easier to setup and manage. Though has a bit of ways to go, does the basics and more without issue. Crazy crazy they spent so much on observability. Even with DataDog they could've optimized that spend. DataDog does lots of bad things with billing where by default, especially with on-demand instances you get charg…
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on “Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved”Submitted ClickHouse vs. OpenObserve for Logs, Metrics and Traces (2026) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are a few: I've played with https://uptrace.dev and https://openobserve.ai/ . OpenObserve is a single binary, so easy to set up
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on “GitHub CI/CD observability with OpenTelemetry step by step guide”Submitted OpenObserve Raises $10M Series A as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are a whole bunch of attempts to unify metrics, logs and traces into a single DB now. * InfluxDB (the newest Rust rewrite) * http://openobserve.ai/ * https://uptrace.dev/ * Clickhouse powered solutions (eg https://signoz.io ) * ... ? I'm quite skeptical about the "store raw data" approach. It makes querying much more complex and slower, storage much more expensive, etc. Columnar databases that can store the da…
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on “Observability 2.0 and the Database for It”Submitted Unveiling OpenObserve, the High-Performance, Cloud-Native Platform as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLook into https://logdy.dev . I've played around with it a little bit, but really putting some work into learning it and integrating it with OTEL traces is my next side project. Another alternative is https://openobserve.ai/ . It needs to run as a daemon to ingest logs (instead of opening a file), but it has a really nice UI.
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on “Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes”Submitted What happens when you benchmark 1B logs on ClickHouse vs. OpenObserve? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIn all likelihood you are not going to get convinced by that. You did not switch to using LGTM stack because grafana gave you a benchmark of LGTM against what you were using previously. We run benchmarks internally and will publish them once we are ready for it, but are unlikely to benchmark someone else's product. Benchmarking someone else's product always leads to a conversation similar to - You ran your benchmark…
Comment linking /blog/jidu-journey-to-100-tracing-fidelity
on “OpenObserve: Observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, analytics”Submitted We benchmarked Prometheus, Mimir, and OpenObserve on 1.09M metrics series as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm going off the article linked above: https://openobserve.ai/blog/sso-tax
Comment linking /blog/sso-tax
on “OpenObserve: Observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, analytics”Submitted Bloom Filter Trick Reduces 170 Object-Storage Reads to One (2.6s → 89ms) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHow so? This chart [1] has SAML under enterprise with no price tag other than "get in touch" [1] https://openobserve.ai/pricing
Comment linking /pricing
on “OpenObserve: Observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, analytics”Submitted OpenObserve Raises $10M Series A as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou should read - https://openobserve.ai/blog/sso-tax and https://openobserve.ai/blog/openobserve-vs-grafana
Comment linking /blog/openobserve-vs-grafana
on “OpenObserve: Observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, analytics”Submitted XDrain in Rust – 40x faster than in Python as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou should read this - https://openobserve.ai/blog/openobserve-vs-grafana
Comment linking /blog/openobserve-vs-grafana
on “OpenObserve: Observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, analytics”Submitted The SSO (Single Sign On) Tax – Why it is here to stay as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou should read this - https://openobserve.ai/blog/sso-tax
Comment linking /blog/sso-tax
on “OpenObserve: Observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, analytics”Submitted OpenObserve: High-Performance, Cloud-Native Elasticsearch Alternative as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI guess you could take a look at this: https://openobserve.ai/ It's in Rust to add some HN catnip.
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on “OpenTelemetry in 2023”Hey folks, Today we are launching OpenObserve. An open source Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative written in rust and vue that is super easy to get started with and has 140x lower storage cost. It offers logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, functions (run aws lambda like functions during ingestion and query to enrich, redact, transform, normalize and whatever else you want to do. Think redacting email IDs…
Comment linking /blog/launching-openobserve
on “Open source Elasticsearch alternative in Rust for logs. 140x lower storage cost”Np. Still learning about how to reference agentskills from my coding LLM here. Haven't yet worked with MCP or A2A much. I should port instruction prompts from each project's AGENTS.md to reusable skills in .claude/skills/skillname/SKILL.md ; so that I can reference "/skillname" in a prompt to reuse that prompt text. Copilot looks for agent skills in .claude/skills/, .github/skills/, or .agents/skills/ . FWIU there a…
Comment linking /docs/overview/comparison/
on “Show HN: Saga – A Jira-like project tracker MCP server for AI agents (SQLite)”Check https://openobserve.ai . It already has logs, metrics and traces and there is more on the horizon.
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on “Ask HN: How do you manage a startups entire monitoring and marketing layer?”Helm chart is available for HA mode installation that allows you to use minio/s3/gcs etc - https://openobserve.ai/docs/ha_deployment/ . For single node installations, you can use base k8s manifests that is available using instructions at - https://openobserve.ai/docs/quickstart/#self-hosted-installa... . Mike created a helm chart for s ingle node installation too - https://github.com/mshade/openobserve-chart/
Comment linking /docs/quickstart/
on “OpenObserve: Elasticsearch/Datadog alternative in Rust.. 140x lower storage cost”Intro video is private. I could not access it on YouTube. https://openobserve.ai/docs/getting-started/
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on “OpenObserve: Elasticsearch/Datadog alternative in Rust.. 140x lower storage cost”
