# OpenObserve

> 140x Lower Cost Open Source Observability Platform

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/openobserve
- **Category:** Log Management Software
- **Homepage:** https://openobserve.ai
- **Also known as:** openobserve
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-03T21:22:31.616Z

## Vioscale score

**65.5 / 100**, confidence 56% (medium).

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 80 | 8 | 640 | ✓ |
| reliability | 95 | 30 | 2850 | ✓ |
| capabilities | 86.7 | 12 | 1040.6 | ✓ |
| github_stars | 81.4 | 5 | 406.8 | ✓ |
| integrations | 32 | 16 | 512.6 | ✓ |
| github_activity | 63.1 | 18 | 1135.8 | ✓ |
| release_cadence | 97.8 | 10 | 977.8 | ✓ |
| security_posture | 40 | 22 | 880 | ✓ |
| package_downloads | 29.7 | 26 | 772.6 | ✓ |
| pricing_transparency | 100 | 12 | 1200 | ✓ |
| stackoverflow_activity | 0 | 12 | 0 | - |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-03, [verify at source](https://openobserve.ai). Independently observed._

from $0.01/mo · Hybrid · Free tier · 14-day trial

> 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.

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Professional | $0.50/GB ingestion + $0.01/GB query (30% annual discount available) | - | - |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | - | - |
| Open Source Self-Hosted | Free | ✓ | - |
| Self-Hosted Enterprise | Free | ✓ | - |

### Professional

Cloud pay-as-you-go with usage-based ingestion and query charges

**Included limits:** metrics_retention: 15 months, logs_traces_retention: 30 days

- Logs
- Metrics
- Traces
- RUM
- Session Replay
- Error tracking
- Unlimited users
- SSO

### Enterprise (Contact sales)

For 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

Free, open-source core edition (AGPL-3.0)

### Self-Hosted Enterprise

Free for up to 50 GB/day ingestion; contact sales for higher volumes

**Included limits:** 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)

## About

Open source, petabyte-scale observability platform providing high-performance, unified logs, metrics, and traces with flexible cloud and self-hosted deployment options.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment

- **Platforms:** CLI, Web
- **Deployment:** 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

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for Log Management Software. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **Core** | |
| Pipeline role | End-to-end platform |
| **Search** | |
| Full-text log search | ✓ |
| **Processing** | |
| Structured parsing | ✓ |
| **Search** | |
| Live tail / stream | - |
| **Ops** | |
| Log-based alerting | ✓ |
| Dashboards / visualisation | ✓ |
| **Storage** | |
| Retention tiering | ✓ |
| **Processing** | |
| PII redaction at ingest | ✓ |
| **Interop** | |
| OpenTelemetry logs | Native |
| **Storage** | |
| Object-store columnar backend | ✓ |
| **Deployment** | |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Interop** | |
| Query language | SQL, PromQL, VRL |

## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### activity

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | [link](https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/pulse) | 2026-08-03 | 65% (medium) |

### adoption

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| adoption.github_stars | 20,536 | [link](https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve) | 2026-08-03 | 90% (high) |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 193 | [link](https://pypistats.org/packages/openobserve-telemetry-sdk) | 2026-08-03 | 85% (high) |

### integrations

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| integrations.count | 12 | [link](https://openobserve.ai) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |

### language

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| language.primary | TypeScript | [link](https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve) | 2026-08-03 | 63% (medium) |

### license

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| license.spdx | AGPL-3.0 | [link](https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve) | 2026-08-03 | 67% (medium) |

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://openobserve.ai) | 2026-08-03 | 48% (low) |
| pricing.model | freemium | [link](https://openobserve.ai) | 2026-08-03 | 56% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | low | [link](https://openobserve.ai) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.starting_gbp | 0.01 | [link](https://openobserve.ai) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | yes | [link](https://openobserve.ai) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |

### release

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| release.cadence_days | 4 | [link](https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases) | 2026-08-03 | 70% (medium) |

### reliability

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.9 | [link](https://openobserve.ai/legal/sla) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| reliability.status_page | yes | [link](https://status.openobserve.ai) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |

### security

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.soc2 | yes | [link](https://openobserve.ai) | 2026-08-03 | 48% (low) |

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