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How to Deploy OpenObserve on Heroku: A Complete Guide
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How to Deploy OpenObserve on Heroku: A Complete Guide

Deploy OpenObserve on Heroku without DevOps complexity. Get logs, metrics, and traces monitoring running in minutes with our comprehensive deployment guide.

Chaitanya Sistla
Chaitanya Sistla
2025-05-14
Token Exchange & OpenObserve Service accounts
Engineering

Token Exchange & OpenObserve Service accounts

Discover OpenObserve’s Service Accounts feature, designed for secure programmatic access to APIs. Learn how token exchange enhances security and simplifies automation.

Manas Sharma
Manas Sharma
2025-05-05
OpenObserve Reaches 15,000 GitHub Stars: A Journey to Provide Simple, Efficient, and Performant Observability for All
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OpenObserve Reaches 15,000 GitHub Stars: A Journey to Provide Simple, Efficient, and Performant Observability for All

OpenObserve has just surpassed 15,000 stars on GitHub, a milestone that fills me with both pride and gratitude. When we started this project three years ago, the goal was simple yet ambitious: to build an open-source observability platform that is easier, faster, and dramatically more cost-effective than anything out there.

Prabhat Sharma
Prabhat Sharma
2025-04-28
How to Configure Microsoft ADDS LDAP with OpenObserve and Dex: Complete Integration Guide
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How to Configure Microsoft ADDS LDAP with OpenObserve and Dex: Complete Integration Guide

Learn how to securely integrate Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) LDAP with OpenObserve and Dex. This step-by-step guide covers authentication configuration, troubleshooting tips, and best practices for enterprise observability solutions.

Chaitanya Sistla
Chaitanya Sistla
2025-04-23
How to Configure PagerDuty with OpenObserve Alerts: A Step-by-Step Guide
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How to Configure PagerDuty with OpenObserve Alerts: A Step-by-Step Guide

This comprehensive guide walks you through the process of integrating PagerDuty with OpenObserve for effective incident management. You'll learn how to set up a PagerDuty service, create alert templates in OpenObserve, configure webhook destinations, and test your integration. Perfect for DevOps engineers, SREs, and IT professionals looking to streamline their alerting workflow and improve response times to critical issues.

Manas Sharma
Manas Sharma
2025-03-21
How to migrate from Datadog to OpenObserve
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How to migrate from Datadog to OpenObserve

Learn how to configure Datadog Agent to send metrics to OpenObserve using OpenTelemetry Collector. Complete guide with setup, troubleshooting & best practices.

Manas Sharma
Manas Sharma
2025-03-19
Understanding OpenObserve Pipelines: Real-Time Processing, Routing, and Pre-Aggregation
Engineering

Understanding OpenObserve Pipelines: Real-Time Processing, Routing, and Pre-Aggregation

Discover how OpenObserve Pipelines enable real-time log processing, dynamic data routing, and pre-aggregation for optimized observability. Learn to transform raw logs into structured formats using VRL functions, efficiently route logs based on conditions, and pre-aggregate metrics to improve performance. This in-depth guide covers step-by-step implementation, from ingesting logs to building powerful OpenObserve Pipelines for seamless log management and analytics. Perfect for DevOps, SREs, and observability engineers looking to enhance log processing workflows.

Chaitanya Sistla
Chaitanya Sistla
2025-03-17
How to deploy OpenObserve on Amazon EKS with ALB ingress
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How to deploy OpenObserve on Amazon EKS with ALB ingress

Learn How to deploy OpenObserve on Amazon EKS with ALB ingress. Step-by-step guide on setup, for better security, performance, and compliance.

Vijay Shekhar Rao
Vijay Shekhar Rao
2025-03-10
Configuring Azure SSO with OpenObserve and Dex
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Configuring Azure SSO with OpenObserve and Dex

Learn how to configure Azure SSO with OpenObserve Dex using OpenID Connect (OIDC) for seamless authentication. Discover why Dex simplifies identity management, why OIDC is recommended over SAML, and follow a step-by-step guide to set up Azure AD authentication with Dex. Enhance security, streamline user access, and optimize performance with this modern authentication approach.

Chaitanya Sistla
Chaitanya Sistla
2025-01-16
Building Monitoring Dashboards with OpenObserve [Tutorial]
Engineering

Building Monitoring Dashboards with OpenObserve [Tutorial]

Learn how to create effective monitoring dashboards with OpenObserve. This guide covers installation, sample data setup, and dashboard creation, highlighting key features like customizable panels and dynamic filtering for enhanced application performance monitoring.

Manas Sharma
Manas Sharma
2024-10-23
From Elasticsearch (ELK) to OpenObserve Streamlining Log Management
Engineering

From Elasticsearch (ELK) to OpenObserve Streamlining Log Management

This blog helps you in getting started with understanding migration from ELK to OpenObserve Streamlining Log Management for Better Insights.

Chaitanya Sistla
Chaitanya Sistla
2024-10-22
Journald.conf configuration
Engineering

Journald.conf configuration

How to configure journald.conf to customize journald logging in Linux

Prabhat Sharma
Prabhat Sharma
2024-10-20
What are Apache, GPL and AGPL licenses and why OpenObserve moved from Apache to AGPL
Engineering

What are Apache, GPL and AGPL licenses and why OpenObserve moved from Apache to AGPL

What are Apache, GPL and AGPL licenses and why OpenObserve moved from Apache to AGPL

Prabhat Sharma
Prabhat Sharma
2024-01-13
Jidu's Journey to 100% Tracing Fidelity with OpenObserve. A Case Study
Engineering

Jidu's Journey to 100% Tracing Fidelity with OpenObserve. A Case Study

Jidu acheived 100% tracing fidelity with OpenObserve by migrating from Elasticsearch to OpenObserve. Read this case study to learn how they did it.

Hengfei Yang
Zhao Wei
Hengfei Yang,Zhao Wei
2023-12-08
Revolutionizing Observability - Unveiling OpenObserve, the High-Performance, Cloud-Native Platform
Engineering

Revolutionizing Observability - Unveiling OpenObserve, the High-Performance, Cloud-Native Platform

OpenObserve is an open source, cloud native open source observability platform that provides ~140x (YMMV. Could be higher or lower based on data entropy) lower storage costs compared to Elasticsearch. Use cases include real-life log data, significantly reduces operational costs, and improves ease of use. It can scale to petabytes of data, is highly performant, and allows you to sleep better at night 😴. If you are looking for an observability tool for logs, metrics, and traces, take a look at OpenObserve and how its approach towards observability could help you build better software and save money on observability costs.

Prabhat Sharma
Prabhat Sharma
2023-05-10
Configuring Okta SSO with OpenObserve and Dex
How to

Configuring Okta SSO with OpenObserve and Dex

Learn how to configure Okta SSO with OpenObserve Dex using OAUTH for seamless authentication. Discover why Dex simplifies identity management, and follow a step-by-step guide to set up Azure AD authentication with Dex. Enhance security, streamline user access, and optimize performance with this modern authentication approach.

Chaitanya Sistla
Chaitanya Sistla
2025-02-28
How to Configure Email Alerts in OpenObserve: A Step-by-Step Guide
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How to Configure Email Alerts in OpenObserve: A Step-by-Step Guide

Learn how to configure email alerts in OpenObserve with this step-by-step guide. Set up Gmail SMTP, create alert templates, and ensure instant notifications for critical system events

Sampath Siva Kumar Boddeti
Sampath Siva Kumar Boddeti
2024-11-30
What's New in OpenObserve v0.13.1-rc1
Release

What's New in OpenObserve v0.13.1-rc1

Discover the latest release of OpenObserve, version 0.13.1-rc1! Enjoy faster search speeds, advanced dashboard features, enhanced alerting with multiple time range and VRL support, and optimized performance. Experience next-level observability with these powerful updates and more in OpenObserve 0.13.1-rc1.

Manas Sharma
Manas Sharma
2024-11-01
Why Apache ECharts Won Over Plotly in Our Tech Stack
Engineering

Why Apache ECharts Won Over Plotly in Our Tech Stack

We delves into our strategic shift from using Plotly to adopting Apache ECharts for our data visualization needs. It explores the reasons behind this decision, the comparative strengths and weaknesses of both tools, and the impact of this change on our user experience and technical operations

Kirtan Thakkar
Kirtan Thakkar
2023-12-25