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Open Source Observability Platform

Starting price
$0.50/GB /mo

About OpenObserve

OpenObserve is an open-source observability platform for monitoring logs, metrics, and traces at petabyte scale. It serves engineering, SRE, and platform teams who need high performance and dramatically lower storage costs with full data control.

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Key Features

When teams evaluate telemetry tooling for large, cost-sensitive environments, these capabilities shape how they observe systems:

Lower Storage Costs

140x lower storage costs than Elasticsearch, aided by aggressive compression and efficient storage layout.

High Compression & Columnar Storage

~40x compression with columnar storage to store more telemetry in less space.

Petabyte-Scale Scalability

Designed to handle multi-petabyte data volumes while keeping queries responsive.

Open Source & Standards

AGPL-3.0 licensed, fully open codebase with OpenTelemetry compatibility and vendor-neutral APIs.

Summary

Best for SREs, platform teams, and data engineers handling large-scale telemetry in cloud-native environments.

Plans and prices as listed on openobserve.ai as of Sep 24, 2026.

Cloud Professional

$0.50/GB / monthly

  • Logs, Metrics, Traces, RUM, Session Replay, Error tracking
  • Ingestion $0.50 per GB
  • Query $0.01 per GB
  • Included Retention
  • Metrics 15 Months
  • Non metrics (Logs, Traces and etc.) 30-Days

Enterprise

Custom / Custom

  • Additional Retention for non-metrics data
  • Infinite retention - 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 (Public Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud)
  • Architecture reviews
  • Volume discounts
  • SLAs

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