OpenObserve
140x Lower Cost Open Source Observability Platform
- Also known as
- openobserve
What is OpenObserve?
Open source, petabyte-scale observability platform providing high-performance, unified logs, metrics, and traces with flexible cloud and self-hosted deployment options.
OpenObserve pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free 14-day cloud trial. Cloud Professional: $0.50/GB ingestion + $0.01/GB query (30% discount for annual). Self-hosted free open source or free enterprise up to 50 GB/day. Enterprise contact sales.
Professional
Cloud pay-as-you-go with usage-based ingestion and query charges
- metrics_retention
- 15 months
- logs_traces_retention
- 30 days
- Logs
- Metrics
- Traces
- RUM
- Session Replay
- Error tracking
- Unlimited users
- SSO
Enterprise
Contact salesFor organizations with advanced observability needs
- All Professional features
- Extended retention options
- Infinite retention with BYOB (Bring Your Own Bucket)
- Pipelines
- Sensitive Data Redaction
- AI-Powered Observability
- Incident Management & AI SRE Agent
- AI Assistant
- Audit Trail
- Unlimited Users
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Premium support
- Deployment flexibility
- Volume discounts
- SLAs
Open Source Self-Hosted
FreeFree, open-source core edition (AGPL-3.0)
Self-Hosted Enterprise
FreeFree for up to 50 GB/day ingestion; contact sales for higher volumes
- free_daily_ingestion
- 50 GB/day
- SSO
- RBAC
- Federated search
- Query management
- Workload management (QoS)
- Audit trail
- Sensitive data redaction
Add-ons
- Additional retention (non-metrics data)$0.02 per GB
What OpenObserve does
The capabilities that matter for log management software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Pipeline role
- End-to-end platform
- Full-text log search
- ✓
- Live tail / stream
- -
- Structured parsing
- ✓
- PII redaction at ingest
- ✓
- Log-based alerting
- ✓
- Dashboards / visualisation
- ✓
- Retention tiering
- ✓
- Object-store columnar backend
- ✓
- OpenTelemetry logs
- Native
- Query language
- SQL, PromQL, VRL
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (12)
Independently observed- OpenTelemetry
- Amazon S3
- Google Cloud Storage
- Azure Blob Storage
- MinIO
- Okta
- Azure AD
- Google Workspace
- LDAP
- Active Directory
- GitHub
- GitLab
OpenObserve alternatives
Other log management software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for OpenObserve, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 95 | 30.00 | 2850.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 63 | 18.00 | 1135.8 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 87 | 12.00 | 1040.6 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 98 | 10.00 | 977.8 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 40 | 22.00 | 880.0 | ✓ |
| Package Downloads | 30 | 26.00 | 772.6 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 32 | 16.00 | 512.6 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 81 | 5.00 | 406.8 | ✓ |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"both","alerting":true,"log_role":"platform","dashboards":true,"otel_support":"native","pii_redaction":true,"query_language":"SQL, PromQL, VRL","full_text_search":true,"retention_tiering":true,"structured_parsing":true,"object_store_backed":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 12 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | TypeScript | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 63% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | AGPL-3.0 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 67% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 4 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 70% |
Reliability
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Soc2 | Yes | lowsource · 2026-08-03 · 48% |