At a glance
- Deployment
- saas, self-hosted
- Licence
- open-core
- Categories
- observability platform, log management, metrics backend, tracing backend, rum synthetics, llm observability
- Ownership
- private
- Estimate
- Costed from published list prices
- Vendor-side sampling
- offered
What it charges for
Every line item recorded for OpenObserve. "Not stated" means the vendor's own page gives no number; it is never treated as zero.
| Line item | Unit | Commitment | List price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Professional - ingestion | gb-ingested | on-demand, billed monthly | Not stated | s1, s15 |
| Cloud Professional - ingestion, annual commitment | gb-ingested | annual (30% discount) | $0.5 | s1, s15 |
| Cloud Professional - query | gb-scanned | on-demand | $0.01 | s1 |
| Cloud - additional retention (non-metrics) | gb-retained-month | on-demand | $0.02 | s1 |
| Cloud Enterprise | custom | contract, volume discounts | Not stated | s1 |
| Self-Hosted Enterprise up to 50 GB/day | flat-month | none | $0 | s1 |
| Self-Hosted Enterprise above 50 GB/day | custom | contact sales | Not stated | s1 |
| Users / dashboards / alerts | user-month | included | $0 | s1 |
| AI features (AI Assistant, AI SRE) | credit | preview | Not stated | s1 |
How the estimate is built
The standard deployment is priced by these components (methodology). A quantity is a formula over the workload variables; free allowances are subtracted first, and a tier prices only its own band.
| Component | Line item | Quantity | Free | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingestion, all signals (annual commit, $0.50/GB includes the 30% discount) | Cloud Professional - ingestion, annual commitment · per gb-ingested · annual (30% discount) | log_gb + span_gb + metric_samples_million * 0.1 | ||
| Queries, assumed 1x ingested volume scanned | Cloud Professional - query · per gb-scanned · on-demand | log_gb + span_gb + metric_samples_million * 0.1 |
Example monthly bills
The same four illustrative workloads as the calculator, at list price. "At least" means a price the vendor does not state is left out of the total.
| Workload | Per month | Note | Calculator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $64.49 | Open Starter in the calculator→ | |
| Small | $524 | Open Small in the calculator→ | |
| Medium | $9,769 | Open Medium in the calculator→ | |
| Large | $97,135 | Open Large in the calculator→ |
Capabilities
What OpenObserve offers, by the definitions in the dataset. Add-on means a separately priced product.
| Capability | Level | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Ai assistant nl query Natural-language query or chat assistant | Partial | s1, s6 |
| Ai root cause AI-assisted root-cause analysis or investigation agent | Partial | s1, s6 |
| Alerting Alert rules with routing/notification | Yes | s3, s5 |
| Anomaly detection Statistical/ML anomaly detection on telemetry | Yes | s6 |
| Audit logs Audit log of user/admin actions | Partial | s1, s3 |
| Byoc Vendor-managed in the customer's cloud account | No | s1, s9 |
| Continuous profiling Continuous profiling | Partial | s4 |
| Data reduction Drop, aggregate, dedupe, or convert logs-to-metrics before billing | Partial | s3 |
| Ebpf autoinstrumentation Zero-code instrumentation via eBPF | No | s4 |
| Federated search Query data in place (object storage, other tools) without ingesting | Partial | s1, s3 |
| Fedramp FedRAMP authorized (state level in note) | No | s2 |
| High cardinality Designed for high-cardinality attributes without pre-aggregation penalties | Yes | s3 |
| Incident response Native on-call/incident workflow | Partial | s1, s6 |
| Llm observability LLM/agent tracing, token and cost tracking, evaluations | Yes | s3, s6 |
| Logs Log management | Yes | s3 |
| Mcp server Exposes an MCP server for agents | Yes | s6 |
| Metrics Metrics | Yes | s3 |
| Observability as code Terraform provider / dashboards-and-alerts as code | Yes | s9 |
| Open format archive Archive in an open format (Parquet, JSON, OTLP) in customer object storage | Partial | s3, s9 |
| Otel collector distro Ships or supports its own OpenTelemetry Collector distribution | No | s4 |
| Otlp ingest Accepts OTLP (gRPC or HTTP) natively, without a proprietary agent in the path | Yes | s3, s4 |
| Pii redaction Mask/redact sensitive data in the pipeline | Partial | s1, s8 |
| Pipeline processing Parse, enrich, transform in flight before storage | Yes | s1, s3 |
| Prometheus remote write Accepts Prometheus remote_write | Yes | s7 |
| Promql Query with PromQL (or a compatible dialect) | Yes | s3, s5 |
| Proprietary agent required Full functionality needs the vendor's own agent (yes = lock-in signal) | No | s4 |
| Rbac Role-based access control | Partial | s1, s3 |
| Rehydration Re-ingest archived data for search on demand | No | s3 |
| Rum Real-user monitoring (browser/mobile) | Yes | s1, s3 |
| Saas Vendor-hosted SaaS | Yes | s1, s2 |
| Sampling tail Tail-based trace sampling | Partial | s1, s12, s13, s14, s3 |
| Security siem SIEM or security analytics | No | s1 |
| Self hosted Customer can run it on its own infrastructure | Yes | s3 |
| Service map Auto-discovered service/topology map | Yes | s7b |
| Slo management First-class SLO/error-budget objects | Yes | s10, s9 |
| Sql query SQL as a query language | Yes | s3 |
| Sso saml SSO via SAML/OIDC | Partial | s1, s3 |
| Tiered storage Hot/warm/cold or archive tiers priced differently | Partial | s1, s3 |
| Traces Distributed tracing | Yes | s3 |
| Usage cost controls Quotas, budgets, usage attribution to teams | Partial | s3, s8 |
Sources
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