OpenObserve
AI-native, open-source Datadog alternative
Details
- External ID
- 1072113
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- AI Observability by OpenObserve
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- March 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 304
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5956284153005464
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
Fast, scalable and cost-effective open-source observability platform. Monitor logs, metrics & traces with 140x lower storage costs than ElasticSearch. Start in 2 minutes.
Enrichment
- Theme
- open-source personal wealth trackers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source ai-native observability and monitoring platform
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No OpenObserve is an enterprise-scale, high-performance columnar database and streaming observability engine written in Rust to compete directly with Elasticsearch and Datadog.
What it would actually take: Building this requires deep systems and database engineering: writing a custom columnar storage engine on object storage (S3) leveraging Apache Arrow and DataFusion, handling massive real-time ingestion (tens of gigabytes per second), full-text inverted indexing, and distributed query execution in Rust. It requires elite systems programming and distributed database internals knowledge.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 48 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #23 of 49 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 137 days after the earliest competitor.
- IceGate · hn · 2026-04-13 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Sazabi - Datadog for the AI Era · yc · 2026-06-01 · 44 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Oodle · hn · 2025-11-04 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Datadog Cost Estimator & Sizing Tool · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- BetterDB · hn · 2026-01-23 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- BetterDB, MIT Valkey-native context layer for AI agents · hn · 2026-06-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Glintlog · hn · 2026-02-04 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- LogClaw · hn · 2026-03-12 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
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