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Description

OpenObserve is a high-performance observability platform for logs, metrics, and traces, well suited for monitoring AI agent runtimes and tool calls.

Key Features

  • All-in-one observability for logs, metrics, traces, LLM, and frontend monitoring
  • Single-binary deployment, one executable runs the whole backend
  • 140x lower storage cost compared to Datadog and Splunk
  • High performance suitable for storing large-scale agent behavior logs
  • OpenTelemetry compatible so existing telemetry data connects directly

Use Cases

💡 Serve as a low-cost backend for AI agent behavior logs
💡 Unify logs, metrics, and traces inside the enterprise
💡 Store query logs for RAG systems to power downstream analysis
💡 Provide dedicated LLM observability for LLM-based applications

Strengths & Limitations

✅ Strengths

  • • Actively maintained, recent updates
  • • High community interest (21.1k stars)
  • • Established track record (3 years in production)

⚠️ Limitations

  • • Restrictive license (AGPL-3.0)

Tags

observability logs metrics tracing opentelemetry

Categories

📚 RAG Tools 📊 Observability

Quick Start

# Run as a single binary
curl -L https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/latest/download/openobserve-linux-amd64 -o openobserve
chmod +x openobserve
./openobserve

# Open the web UI
open http://localhost:5080

# Ingest data via OpenTelemetry
# endpoint: http://localhost:5080/api/default/otlp/v1/logs
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