OpenObserve

Open source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, frontend monitoring, pipelines and LLM observability. A sophisticated, simple and highly performant alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment.

Data confidence100/100
Source coverage100/100
Publish confidence100/100
Evidence checkedJul 31, 2026
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Activity
Recent commits, releases, changelog, package, and product-motion signals.
Reliability
Maintenance posture from recency, release evidence, availability, and repo signals.
Adoption
Public footprint from GitHub stars, forks, and watchers when available.
Sustainability
Longer-term posture combining health, activity, adoption, confidence, and decay risk.
ToolVitals100/100Health100/100Shipping100/100Zombie Risk0/100
Overall Score100Active
Activity100
Reliability100
Adoption85
Sustainability98

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About this tool

What ToolVitals knows about OpenObserve

Open source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, frontend monitoring, pipelines and LLM observability. A sophisticated, simple and highly performant alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment.

This tool has an OSI-approved open-source license signal.

Maintenance and shipping signals are strong.

Source-visible projectObservabilityOSI-approved OSSScored Intelligence
Repository

GitHub Activity

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openobserve/openobserve
Stars20,474
Forks972
Watchers20,474
Open Issues592
Primary Language
TypeScript
Last Commit
Today
Releases 90d
21
Default Branch
main
License
AGPL-3.0
Repository Status
Active repository
Evidence

Signal Quality

Data Confidence100/100Strong
Source Coverage100/100Strong
Publish Confidence100/100Strong

ConfidenceHigh-confidence score from multiple public signals.

Zombie RiskNo meaningful zombie signal right now.

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License Evidence

Class
OSI-approved OSS
License
AGPL-3.0

This tool has an OSI-approved open-source license signal.

Sources

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Classification

Category
Monitoring
Use Case
Observability
Openness
OSI-approved OSS
License
AGPL-3.0
Tool Mode
Source-visible project
Score Model
Open Source Maintenance
Score Visibility
Scored Intelligence
Status
Active
Maintainers

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