OpenObserve
Open-source · self-hostable · replaces 2 SaaS tools on os-alt
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License: AGPL-3.0
Good fit for Log-heavy stacks moving off Datadog/New Relic that want predictable S3-backed storage costs.
Weak at APM/services view is less polished than SigNoz's; better at logs than at deep distributed-trace exploration.
In a terminal? npx -y github:SolvoHQ/os-alt-cli new-relic prints
the New Relic comparison table including OpenObserve.
how the CLI works →
Replaces these SaaS
- New Relic · APM / observability platform
Run `docker run -d -v $HOME/openobserve:/data -p 5080:5080 -e ZO_ROOT_USER_EMAIL=admin@example.com -e ZO_ROOT_USER_PASSWORD=admin public.ecr.aws/zinclabs/openobserve:latest`. Point OTLP from your apps at the OpenObserve collector endpoint; logs, traces, metrics ingest through the same OTel pipeline. UI focuses on log search + trace correlation; Lucene-style query language.
- Splunk · Log management + SIEM
`docker run -d -v $HOME/openobserve:/data -p 5080:5080 public.ecr.aws/zinclabs/openobserve:latest`. Ship logs via Fluent Bit, Vector, or OTLP collector. OpenObserve replaces both index and storage with columnar Parquet on S3 — order-of-magnitude cheaper at high ingest volumes than Splunk or OpenSearch. Built-in alerting + dashboards.
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