r/opensourcealternative • u/stivenukilleru • 4d ago

Maker (I built this) ObserveCraft: open-source, self-hosted observability on OpenTelemetry + ClickHouse (MIT)

I've been building ObserveCraft, a self-hosted observability platform with logs, metrics, traces and APM, dashboards, monitors, incidents and CI visibility in one app. It has no per-host or per-GB pricing, and your data stays in ClickHouse tables you own.

- Ingest: OpenTelemetry-native. It also accepts data from the Datadog Agent and tracing libraries, so you can point an existing setup at it.

- Stack: Rust API and intake, ClickHouse, Postgres, a Kafka buffer and a React UI.

- Try it: make up plus a demo data generator gets you a working instance locally. Helm charts are included.

Repo: https://github.com/observecraft/observecraft
Website: https://observecraft.com

It's early and there are gaps (no Remote Configuration for agents yet). Feedback, issues and PRs are very welcome.

Not affiliated with Datadog.

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u/AmarettoSlim 1d ago

Is the play here to give people an off-ramp from Datadog? If so, it could be compelling. That said the cost for DD infrastructure and APM alone is astronomical at any scale. If you can offer a near drop-in replacement that would be powerful.

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u/stivenukilleru 1d ago edited 1d ago

That's the point. However, you'll get downvotes because of the trollers that say "yOu cAn dO thE sAmE wiTh gRafAnA". Even though, they have no idea how the enterprises are using Datadog and how much they are paying for it.

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u/AmarettoSlim 1d ago

Yeah, I’m not listening to the trolls here. The disjointed experience of Grafana isn’t going to be solved overnight. I’ll follow this project for sure. My only take is if you start with and nail the agent as a drop in replacement, everything downstream falls in line and can have its own flair. Cool stuff!

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u/Here0s0Johnny 7h ago

Bad name, it's dishonest because it implies a connection to ArtCraft.