# OpenObserve

9 Hacker News commenters recommended OpenObserve and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a simple, self-contained, performant observability stack that is cheap to run and easy to deploy.

## Why people recommend it

- Simple, self-contained, easy to deploy (6 comments): "just a single binary/container that would suffice for most users' needs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937214)) "I really like that it's self-contained, easy to deploy and manage." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941161)) "Extremely performant and simple full-stack observability solution." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121915))
- Performant, proven at petabyte scale (3 comments): "Extremely performant and simple full-stack observability solution." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121915)) "OpenObserve too, is already being used at a multi-petabyte scale." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947638)) "OpenObserve would be the simplest and most performant" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953226))
- Favoured over other observability tools (3 comments): "OpenObserve would be the simplest and most performant" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953226)) "OpenObserve might be what you're looking for" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45936014)) "I think that OpenObserve is even simpler" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45936593))
- Enthusiastic endorsements from users (3 comments): "I think it looks amazing, I haven't looked into it enough to know of any downsides." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130809)) "OpenObserve might be what you're looking for" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45936014)) "I can personally vouch for OpenObserve" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080262))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Grafana](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grafana.md): 71 recommend
- [Prometheus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/prometheus.md): 48 recommend
- [Datadog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/datadog.md): 40 recommend
- [Sentry](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sentry.md): 31 recommend
- [SigNoz](https://hackerapproved.com/p/signoz.md): 19 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "OpenObserve", https://hackerapproved.com/p/openobserve/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).