OpenObserve
Infrastructure
observability monitoring
SHOW HN2023
198points
97comments
#281of 3,109 in 2023
Top 10%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
9 positive, 25 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 42 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 3 againstPerformance: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Easy single-binary setup with low resource usage
From 2 comments
Hah, funny to see this on HN, I just tried this 3 days ago when I saw it being discussed on /r/selfhosted. As someone running a homelab, and hadn't set up logging yet, it was a…
gettodachoppa on HNVictoriaMetrics core developer here. OpenObserve looks very promising from the first sight! It prioritizes the same properties as VictoriaMetrics products: - Easy setup and…
valyala on HN
Low storage cost versus Elasticsearch
From 1 comment
It seems that the 140x lower storage cost comes from: 1. S3 (OO) vs EBS (ES): about 5x 2. No indexing: About 10x ? 3. No data duplication (due to using S3 I assume) in HA…
aliencat on HN
Objections
Documentation unclear on ingestion agents and metrics/traces support
From 2 comments
Was excited about this as I've been looking to host my own DataDog substitute for aggregating logs, alerts, searches, metrics, etc. Wanted to give this a shot but unfortunately…
asnyder on HNI poked around the user guide[0] and discovered this: > Currently OpenObserve support steams of type logs, in future streams types metrics & traces will be supported. - are…
hamandcheese on HN
Elasticsearch API compatibility behind a commercial license
From 1 comment
Looked at this a couple of days ago and it looks impressive! However, it does saddens me to see the elasticsearch api compatibility being behind a license, I had hoped this was…
makkesk8 on HN
Kibana not supported despite drop-in replacement claim
From 1 comment
> It is a drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch if you are just ingesting data using APIs and searching using kibana (Kibana is not supported nor required with OpenObserve.…
michaelmior on HN
Requests
Kibana support
From 2 comments
Said an alternate way, if Kibana drop in compat could be a thing, it would be easier for infra teams to do it as a drop in into existing stacks at bigger companies which makes it…
vlovich123 on HN>Is Kibana support totally out of the question? Actually no. We already have a good amount of pieces in place to support kibana. 2-3 weeks of dev work and it will be ready. Just…
prabhatsharma on HN
SSO/SCIM/Okta support
From 1 comment
How long until you have SSO/SCIM/IDP support? Being able to provision and manage users and sign in via Okta will be really useful.
adamm255 on HN
OTLP support for logs and metrics
From 1 comment
According to the docs you only have OpenTelemetry ingest support for traces, but not metrics and logs. Is that right?
quickquest234 on HN
Helm chart and benchmarks against Loki
From 2 comments
Might I suggest a Helm chart so that people can just apply it/install it to their home test k8s cluster, etc.
MuffinFlavored on HNDo you have any benchmark tests with Loki?
safeie on HN
Questions
How it compares to Grafana stack, Signoz and Parseable
From 3 comments
What differentiates you from the grafana stack? Grafana labs now have solutions for every pillar of observability (metrics, logs, traces), and that whole stack also touts cheap…
hamandcheese on HNHow are you different from something like Signoz ?
codegeek on HNHow does this compare to Parseable? https://github.com/parseablehq/parseable First guess is that the underlying storage / query layer is pretty similar (Parquet + Datafusion),…
benpacker on HN
Whether metrics and traces are queryable yet
From 1 comment
I poked around the user guide[0] and discovered this: > Currently OpenObserve support steams of type logs, in future streams types metrics & traces will be supported. - are…
hamandcheese on HN
Alternatives named
Grafana Loki/Mimir/Tempo stack
From 1 comment
What differentiates you from the grafana stack? Grafana labs now have solutions for every pillar of observability (metrics, logs, traces), and that whole stack also touts cheap…
hamandcheese on HN
Datadog
From 1 comment
Once I wanted to use Data dog with our internal project. Unfortunately I couldn't use the trial, it ended when I was ill at home. So I asked to prolong the trial. Ohhh that was a…
gitowiec on HN
SigNoz
From 1 comment
How are you different from something like Signoz ?
codegeek on HN
Parseable
From 1 comment
How does this compare to Parseable? https://github.com/parseablehq/parseable First guess is that the underlying storage / query layer is pretty similar (Parquet + Datafusion),…
benpacker on HN
VictoriaMetrics
From 1 comment
VictoriaMetrics core developer here. OpenObserve looks very promising from the first sight! It prioritizes the same properties as VictoriaMetrics products: - Easy setup and…
valyala on HN