OpenObserve
AI-native, open-source Datadog alternative
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PH · launched Mar 18, 2026 · 304 upvotes (top 40%) · 0 views
Niche: software observability platforms · 90 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -88% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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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 : 147 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #70 of 148 (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 0.51
- Sazabi - Datadog for the AI Era · yc · 2026-06-01 · 44 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Oodle · hn · 2025-11-04 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Datadog Cost Estimator & Sizing Tool · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min · hn · 2026-10-06 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- geo-monitor · github · 2026-10-29 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- BetterDB, MIT Valkey-native context layer for AI agents · hn · 2026-06-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- BetterDB · hn · 2026-01-23 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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