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OpenObserve features

What you can do with OpenObserve, fully managed by Elestio.

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.

Logs Management

OpenObserve provides a centralized log management solution with full-text search, SQL queries, and powerful filtering. Built on Parquet columnar storage for 140x lower storage costs than Elasticsearch. Instantly search through all your logs using quick filters and a powerful query builder. Create dashboards from log data and set up alerts.

Distributed Tracing

Distributed tracing is essential to troubleshoot issues in microservices applications. Powered by OpenTelemetry, tracing in OpenObserve helps you track user requests across services to identify performance bottlenecks. See user requests in a detailed breakdown with flame graphs and Gantt charts. Click on any span to see the entire trace and understand where issues occurred.

Metrics & Dashboards

Ingest metrics from your infrastructure or applications and create customized dashboards. 19+ built-in chart types plus custom charts for 200+ visualization variations. Query metrics with SQL or PromQL. Add multiple queries and combine them with formulas.

Frontend Monitoring (RUM)

Real user monitoring with performance tracking, error logging, and session replay. Understand exactly what your users experience.

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