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OpenObserve

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4.9
Market Presence: Observability Platforms, Telemetry Pipelines (Transitioning to Observability Pipelines)

Overview

Product Information on OpenObserve

Updated 8th September 2025

What is OpenObserve?

Legacy observability platforms are increasingly failing to meet modern cloud-native requirements while imposing unsustainable financial and operational burdens. OpenObserve has been built from the ground up to help companies rein in the exploding costs of logs, traces, and metrics and address degraded performance at scale.

OpenObserve Pricing

OpenObserve employs a transparent, consumption-based pricing model that meters usage based on data ingest volume and product feature consumption. This approach ensures customers pay only for what they use, providing cost predictability and scalability.

OpenObserve Product Images

Kubernetes dashboard
Kubernetes dashboard
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Trace spans
OpenObserve architecture
OpenObserve architecture

Overall experience with OpenObserve

Software Development Manager
<50M USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“Affordable, open-source observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces without unnecessary complexity”

5.0
Apr 14, 2026
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 4th August 2025

OpenObserve is an observability platform designed to centralize logs, metrics, and traces into a single system. It addresses the operational challenge of managing large-scale observability data by providing a solution that can be deployed efficiently and that supports handling of significant data volumes. Built with a focus on performance and resource efficiency, OpenObserve aims to streamline the process of collecting, storing, and querying telemetry data without requiring extensive hardware resources or complex configuration. Its design supports organizations seeking to improve visibility into systems and processes for monitoring and troubleshooting purposes.

Company Details

Updated 4th August 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2022
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
11 - 50
Website
https://openobserve.ai

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OpenObserve Reviews and Ratings

4.9

(15 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
87%
4 Star
13%
3 Star
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  • Software Development Manager
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Affordable, open-source observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces without unnecessary complexity

    5.0
    Apr 14, 2026
    Definitely the biggest benefit is the value you get for your money. But even keeping this aside, it has opentelemetry native ingestion, it unifies all the main things we care about, logs, metrics, traces, and setup is super easy. There are small UI tweaks that could make the product even better, but the general experience has been superb.
  • Software Development Manager
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Affordable, open-source observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces without unnecessary complexity

    5.0
    Apr 14, 2026
    Definitely the biggest benefit is the value you get for your money. But even keeping this aside, it has opentelemetry native ingestion, it unifies all the main things we care about, logs, metrics, traces, and setup is super easy. There are small UI tweaks that could make the product even better, but the general experience has been superb.
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User Sentiment About OpenObserve
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Performance of OpenObserve Across Market Features

OpenObserve Likes & Dislikes

Like

What stood out the most was how quickly we were able to get useful visibility. Integrating this with our telemetry and services running inside our cluster was really easy to do. Cost was also a huge thing for us and OpenObserves had the best pricing from all the other competitors we compared them too.

Like

What stood out the most was how quickly we were able to get useful visibility. Integrating this with our telemetry and services running inside our cluster was really easy to do. Cost was also a huge thing for us and OpenObserves had the best pricing from all the other competitors we compared them too.

Like

What stood out the most was how quickly we were able to get useful visibility. Integrating this with our telemetry and services running inside our cluster was really easy to do. Cost was also a huge thing for us and OpenObserves had the best pricing from all the other competitors we compared them too.