alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog

OpenObserve

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Open source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, RUM (web, android, ios), Session replay, pipelines, SLO and LLM observability. A sophisticated, simple and highly performant alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment.

TypeScriptLog storageAGPL-3.0

Owner: OpenObserve organisation
Stars: 22k
Forks: 1.1k
Latest: v1.1.0-rc1
Last push: 2026-10-06
Terms: Open source
Self-hosted: Yes
Deploy with: Container image, Helm chart
Created: 2023, 3 years ago
Release cadence: about 3 days between releases
Active contributors: 43+ commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days
Stars over 13 days: 2026-09-24 22,1202026-10-06 22,279

Read from GitHub on 2026-10-06.Entry last edited on 2026-09-24.

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