OpenObserve
With 20,500+ GitHub stars and over 6,000 organizations running it in production — including a Fortune 100 company ingesting more than 4 PB per day — OpenObserve is the open-source observability platform that replaces your entire Datadog, Splunk, or ELK stack with a single Rust binary deploying in under two minutes. Apache Parquet columnar storage with zstd compression on S3-compatible object storage delivers 140x lower storage costs than Elasticsearch while providing better query performance on a quarter of the hardware. Ingest logs, metrics, and distributed traces via native OpenTelemetry OTLP endpoints with no vendor lock-in. Query logs and traces with standard SQL, metrics with SQL or PromQL — no proprietary query language to learn. The built-in dashboard builder offers 19 chart types including time-series graphs, heatmaps, gauges, tables, and top-K lists with drag-and-drop layout combining data from all signal types. Data pipelines process, enrich, redact, or normalize ingestion streams using Vector Remap Language for real-time transformations including PII redaction and logs-to-metrics conversion. Real User Monitoring captures frontend performance with session replay. The Service Catalog provides topology-based trace analysis with side-panel drill-downs into database queries and error details. Alerting supports real-time and scheduled rules with SQL and PromQL conditions. Native multi-tenancy isolates organizations and streams with complete data separation. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPLv3 licensed.
SigNoz
With over 31,000 GitHub stars and native OpenTelemetry support that eliminates vendor lock-in from day one, SigNoz delivers full-stack observability covering metrics, traces, and logs in a single pane of glass without the per-host pricing model of commercial APM platforms. The platform ingests telemetry data through the OpenTelemetry Collector, supporting auto-instrumentation for Java, Python, Node.js, Go, Ruby, PHP, and .NET applications with zero code changes required for basic tracing. ClickHouse serves as the columnar storage backend, providing fast aggregation queries over billions of spans and log lines with configurable retention policies and tiered storage. The distributed tracing view renders flame graphs and Gantt charts showing request flow across microservices with latency breakdowns, error rates, and p99 percentile calculations. Custom dashboards support PromQL and ClickHouse SQL queries with time-series charts, bar graphs, tables, and value widgets. The log management pipeline supports structured and unstructured logs with full-text search, log pipelines for parsing and enrichment, and correlation with traces via trace IDs. Alert rules can be configured on any metric or log query with notification channels including Slack, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, webhooks, and email. The exceptions monitoring module automatically groups and tracks application errors with stack traces, occurrence counts, and first-seen timestamps. Service maps visualize inter-service dependencies with real-time latency and error rate overlays. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed with an enterprise edition available.