OpenObserve vs ELK/Kibana: benefits and limits
Compare OpenObserve and Elastic: storage, costs, SQL, dashboards, security, licenses, and a proof-of-concept and migration roadmap.
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OpenObserve on Ubuntu: dedicated server, S3, GCS, OCI, and MinIO
After exploring OpenObserve and its unified platform for logs, metrics, and traces, the next step is to run it on a dedicated Ubuntu server without Docker. This guide installs the official binary as a systemd service, keeps OpenObserve's port on loopback, exposes the interface through nginx with TLS, and explains when to use local storage … Read more
OpenObserve: logs, metrics, and traces in one platform
When a service starts failing, the signals are usually scattered: metrics in Prometheus, logs in another backend, traces in a third tool, and alerts without context. OpenObserve aims to bring this work together in an open-source platform for logs, metrics, traces, RUM, dashboards, alerts, and incidents. Written in Rust, it queries logs and traces with … Read more