OpenObserve

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High-performance, unified observability for the AI era

ObservabilitySan Francisco, CA11–50 employeesFounded 2022

#16 of 45 in Observability10,000 customers (per openobserve.ai)25% positive in AI answers

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Visibility score

3.6%

New vs last week

Weekly run · Nov 3

Data collected Nov 3, 2026·ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode·coverage 100%·next run Nov 9, 2026

OpenObserve ranks #16 of 45 in Observability with an AI visibility score of 3.6 (SlateIndex, Nov 3, 2026).
OpenObserve is most visible on Perplexity (8.3) and least on ChatGPT (0).
AI engines name OpenObserve in 8 of the 30 Observability buyer prompts SlateIndex tracks.
motadata.com is the source AI engines cite most in answers about OpenObserve, with 6 citations.

About

Company details for OpenObserve

OpenObserve is an open-source platform that brings logs, metrics, traces, real user monitoring and LLM observability into one system. It stores telemetry as columnar Parquet files written in Rust on the DataFusion engine, with no search index to build. It includes an AI SRE agent that correlates signals across logs, metrics and traces to help triage incidents. It ranks #16 of 45 in Observability on SlateIndex and has a visibility score of 3.6 in the latest weekly run.

Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, CA, the company employs 11–50 people. Its differentiator: columnar Parquet storage with no index, which the vendor says stores the same year of logs for up to 140x less than Elasticsearch.

Website: openobserve.ai
Categories: Observability
Company size: 11–50 employees
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founded: 2022
Company type: Private, venture-backed
Funding: Seed
Customers: 10,000 · per openobserve.ai
Pricing: Free; paid from $0.5 / mo · usage-based
Free trial: Free plan available
Deployment: Open-source self-hosted, OpenObserve Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud
Platforms: AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure
Integrations: 150+ native
Support: Premium support on the Enterprise plan, Architecture reviews on the Enterprise plan, SLAs on the Enterprise plan

GitHub · github.com/openobserve/openobserve X · x.com/OpenObserve LinkedIn · linkedin.com/company/openobserve YouTube · youtube.com/@openobserve Twitter · twitter.com/OpenObserve

Read from linkedin.com, openobserve.ai, github.com, apmdigest.com, businesswire.com · refreshed Nov 3, 2026.

AI visibility

Latest weekly run · Nov 3 · next run Nov 9

Visibility score

3.6%

across Observability answers, weighted by position

ChatGPT0%

AI Mode2.6%

Perplexity8.3%

Change

New

vs last week’s run

Category rank

#16 of 45

in Observability

Mentions

in this week’s run

Share of voice

1.4%

of AI mentions in Observability

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days, with up to 7 competitors. Click a name to hide or show its line.

Now3.6%

30-day change—

High · low3.6% · 3.6%

Rank#16

Changes appear after the second weekly run in Observability. Datadog leads the category at 69.5%.

Media

Website and product screenshots for OpenObserve

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Home page

Pricing page

AI mentions & citations

Recent answers that name OpenObserve

All prompts

Which observability platform has transparent pricing?

- OpenObserve: Fully transparent pay-as-you-go cloud pricing based strictly on data volume ($0.50/GB ingested and $0.01/GB queried).

Google AI Mode · run of Nov 3

Where can I sign up for an observability platform?

OpenObserve Cloud — free tier with up to 50 GB/day of ingestion.

Perplexity · run of Nov 3

Which observability platform offers a free trial?

OpenObserve Cloud: 14-day free trial with no credit card required

Perplexity · run of Nov 3

Which observability tools offer annual discounts?

OpenObserve Cloud: Annual plans include a stated 30% ingestion discount.

Perplexity · run of Nov 3

How do I choose an observability platform for a mid-market team?

Perplexity · run of Nov 3

What are the best observability tools in 2026?

The strongest shortlist is Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana Cloud, New Relic, Honeycomb, Elastic, Splunk Observability Cloud, Amazon CloudWatch, SigNoz, and OpenObserve.

Perplexity · run of Nov 3

Alternatives to the most popular observability platform

Perplexity · run of Nov 3

Official website of the top observability platform vendors

Perplexity · run of Nov 3

Products & features

What OpenObserve sells

Logs

Petabyte-scale log search with SQL and no indexing tax.

Metrics

Prometheus-compatible metrics store on the same engine as logs.

Traces

Distributed tracing correlated with logs and metrics.

Dashboards

Drag-and-drop dashboards across every signal, or imported Grafana boards.

Alerts

Real-time and scheduled alerts routed to Slack, PagerDuty, email and more.

AI SRE

Agent that triages incidents, correlates root cause and drafts postmortems.

AI assistant

Natural-language questions across logs, metrics and traces.

LLM Observability

Traces prompts, completions, token usage and cost in LLM applications.

SLOs

Define and monitor service-level objectives.

RUM

Real user monitoring with session traces, Core Web Vitals and errors.

Synthetic monitoring

Outside-in monitoring of applications and services.

Strengths engines cite

transparent pay-as-you-go pricing
annual plan discount on ingestion
free tier with generous daily ingestion
free trial without credit card
named among the strongest shortlist options

Target market & buyers

Engineering and SRE teams, from startups and nonprofits to enterprises.

Notable customers include Walmart, Banorte, Sony Music, Hitachi Ventara, Avatar, Yupao, Uno.ai, Decklar.

Industry	Primary use case
Transportation technology	SOC 2 compliance, uptime improvement and observability cost reduction
AI-native GRC and enterprise risk	Unified telemetry across GCP, AWS and Azure at lower monitoring cost
Recruitment platform	Consolidating log visibility across VPCs after moving logs from Alibaba Cloud SLS to a self-hosted deployment

Funding & recent developments

Funding

Round	Year	Amount
Series A	2026	$10M
Seed	—	—

Latest known round	Total raised
Seed	—

Recent developments

Sep 2026Productv1.0 release
v1.0 covers self-hosted and Cloud, with AI Observability, composite alerts, an alert library, Database Monitoring and open-source Synthetics.
May 2026ProductTerraform provider and Kubernetes module released
Terraform provider and Kubernetes module released, and Bring Your Own Bucket added for Cloud.
Apr 2026Funding$10M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners and Dell Technologies Capital
OpenObserve announced a $10 million Series A to accelerate AI-native observability.
Mar 2026ProductCloud hosting expanded to Microsoft Azure
OpenObserve Cloud expanded to Azure, including a US West 2 region sold through the Azure Marketplace.
Jun 2025CompanyMove to fully usage-based pricing
OpenObserve moved to usage-based pricing, ending minimum fees and the free tier. Self-hosting remains free.