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ClickHouse / ClickStack

ClickStack

Resolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors powered by ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry.

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Resolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors powered by ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry.

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More benchmarks comparing effectiveness of various AI SREs is welcome and overdue: especially vendor-vs-vendor comparisons. One area that I think is going to be really interesting and important is the best way to emulate complex IT environments for evals. Some related work I recommend checking out: - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.33023 (new last week!) - https://github.com/SREGym/SREGym - https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx/tree/main/packages/hdx-... (Clickstack's version) - https://github.com/grafana/o11y-bench (Grafana's version)
In Show HN: AI SRE Arena, an Open Benchmark for AI SRE Agents on Kubernetes
It would have even much better if the link was pointing to https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx the actual source code. Because right now without the message on HN here, I wouldn't know what "open source observability stack" meant when the webpage does not explain what HyperDX is, nor does it provide a link to it or its code. I was expecting the whole thing "Open Source Datadog" to be ClickStack Repo inside Clickhouse Github. Which is not found anywhere. But other than that congrats!. I have long wondered why no one has built anything on top of Clickhouse for Datadog / New Relic competition. The Clickhouse DB opened up the ocean of open source "Scalable" Web Analytics that wont previously available or possible. I am hoping we see this change again to observability platform as well.
In Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX
mikeshi42·Jun 5, 2025Submission

Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX

Hey HN! Mike & Warren here from HyperDX (now part of ClickHouse)! We’ve been building ClickStack, an open source observability stack that helps you collect, centralize, search/viz/alert on your telemetry (logs, metrics, traces) in just a few minutes - all powered by ClickHouse (Apache2) for storage, HyperDX (MIT) for visualization and OpenTelemetry (Apache2) for ingestion. You can check out the quick start for spinning things up in the repo here: https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx ClickStack makes it really easy to instrument your application so you can go from bug reports of “my checkout didn’t go through” to a session replay of the user, backend API calls, to DB queries and infrastructure metrics related to that specific request in a single view. For those that might be migrating from Very Expensive Observability Vendor (TM) to someth
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ing open source, more performant, and doesn’t require extensive culling of retention limits and sampling rates - ClickStack gives a batteries-included way of starting that migration journey. For those that aren’t familiar with ClickHouse, it’s a high performance database that has already been used by companies such as Anthropic, Cloudflare, and DoorDash to power their core observability at scale due to its flexibility, ease of use, and cost effectiveness. However, this required teams to dedicate engineers to building a custom observability stack, where it’s difficult to not only get their telemetry data easily into ClickHouse but also struggling without a native UI experience. That’s why we’re building ClickStack - we wanted to bundle an easy way to get started ingesting your telemetry data whether it’s logs & traces from Node.js or Ruby to metrics from Kubernetes or your bare metal infrastructure. Just as important we wanted our users to enjoy a visualization experience that allowed users to quickly search using a familiar lucene-like search syntax (similar to what you’d use in Google!). We recognise though, that a SQL mode is needed for the most complex of queries. We've also added high cardinality outlier analysis by charting the delta between outlier and inlier events - which we've found really helpful in narrowing down causes of regressions/anomalies in our traces as well as log patterns to condense down clusters of similar logs. We’re really excited about the roadmap ahead in terms of improving ClickStack as a product and the ClickHouse core database to improve observability. Would love to hear everyone’s feedback and what they think! Spinning up a container is pretty simple: `docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 4317:4317 -p 4318:4318 docker.hyperdx.io/hyperdx/hyperdx-all-in-one` In browser live demo (no sign ups or anything silly, it runs fully in your browser!): https://play.hyperdx.io/ Landing Page: https://clickhouse.com/o11y Github Repo: https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx Discord community: https://hyperdx.io/discord Docs: https://clickhouse.com/docs/use-cases/observability/clicksta...
241 points · Open discussion
mikeshi42·May 29, 2025Submission

Show HN: ClickStack – open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX

Hey HN! Mike & Warren here from HyperDX (now part of ClickHouse)! We’ve been building ClickStack, an open source observability stack that helps you collect, centralize, search/viz/alert on your telemetry (logs, metrics, traces) in just a few minutes - all powered by ClickHouse (Apache2) for storage, HyperDX (MIT) for visualization and OpenTelemetry (Apache2) for ingestion. You can check out the quick start for spinning things up in the repo here: https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx ClickStack makes it really easy to instrument your application so you can go from bug reports of “my checkout didn’t go through” to a session replay of the user, backend API calls, to DB queries and infrastructure metrics related to that specific request in a single view. For those that might be migrating from Very Expensive Observability Vendor (TM) to someth
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ing open source, more performant, and doesn’t require extensive culling of retention limits and sampling rates - ClickStack gives a batteries-included way of starting that migration journey. For those that aren’t familiar with ClickHouse, it’s a high performance database that has already been used by companies such as Anthropic, Cloudflare, and DoorDash to power their core observability at scale due to its flexibility, ease of use, and cost effectiveness. However, this required teams to dedicate engineers to building a custom observability stack, where it’s difficult to not only get their telemetry data easily into ClickHouse but also struggling without a native UI experience. That’s why we’re building ClickStack - we wanted to bundle an easy way to get started ingesting your telemetry data whether it’s logs & traces from Node.js or Ruby to metrics from Kubernetes or your bare metal infrastructure. Just as important we wanted our users to enjoy a visualization experience that allowed users to quickly search using a familiar lucene-like search syntax (similar to what you’d use in Google!). We recognise though, that a SQL mode is needed for the most complex of queries. We've also added high cardinality outlier analysis by charting the delta between outlier and inlier events - which we've found really helpful in narrowing down causes of regressions/anomalies in our traces as well as log patterns to condense down clusters of similar logs. We’re really excited about the roadmap ahead in terms of improving ClickStack as a product and the ClickHouse core database to improve observability. Would love to hear everyone’s feedback and what they think! In browser live demo (no sign ups or anything silly, it runs fully in your browser!): https://play.hyperdx.io/ Landing Page: https://clickhouse.com/o11y Github Repo: https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx Discord community: https://hyperdx.io/discord Docs: https://clickhouse.com/docs/use-cases/observability/clicksta...
14 points · Open discussion
mikeshi42·Nov 12, 2024Submission

Show HN: Open-source Kibana alternative for logs and traces in ClickHouse

Hi HN, Mike and Warren here! We're excited to share some (early) work towards our next major version of HyperDX. HyperDX makes it easy to visualize/search logs & traces on top of Clickhouse (so incident & bug investigations hopefully go by a little easier). For example, if a team is thinking of migrating to Clickhouse for their observability data warehouse [1][2][3] usually due to cost or data privacy reasons, they can easily throw HyperDX on top to do the UI layer for analysis and dashboarding in a dev-friendly way (aka not needing to type paragraphs of SQL to find some logs) Over the past year we've seen a ton of excitement in companies adopting Clickhouse-based observability stacks - but one of the biggest challenges we've seen is that the UI layer on top of Clickhouse is either clunky to use for observability use cases (ex. BI tools),
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or too tied to a specific ingestion architecture to scale to every use case (we used to be in this category!). For companies that needed more flexibility in how their data is ingested and stored (usually due to running at a large scale), there's really no good options for a developer experience (DX) focused observability layer on top of Clickhouse (Shopify spent 3 years building it in-house!) Our current release works completely in the browser - and it does this by building on top of Clickhouse's HTTP interface, which our React app can directly talk to. This means you can actually try HyperDX in your browser on your own Clickhouse with no installation! This was fortunately easy for us to accomplish due to being full stack Typescript, making it incredibly easy to shift between server and client code. On top of this we've been spending time baking in performance optimizations to ensure that HyperDX can continue to leverage Clickhouse efficiently at larger data volumes. We do a few tricks like only fetching columns that are needed for the current search, and re-querying to expand the entire row if needed to fully leverage Clickhouse's columnar nature (40% faster, ymmv!) - or rewriting queries to use materialized columns to speed up Map column access when available (10x faster!). On the DX side: we support querying using both Lucene (ex. `fullText property:value`) and SQL syntax. We've found the former to be our favorite for how concise it is. Similarly for charts, our chart builder has been upgraded to accept SQL expressions as well, so you can leverage the full power of SQL, while avoiding typing paragraphs of boilerplate SQL for time series data. We also make it easy to switch between UTC/local timestamps! Lastly, we've added high cardinality outlier analysis by charting the delta between outlier and inlier events (a la bubble up) - which we've found really helpful in narrowing down causes of regressions/anomalies in our traces. We have a lot more planned for the full release - but wanted to get this out early to hear your feedback and opinions! In Browser Live Demo: https://play.hyperdx.io/search Github Repo: https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx/tree/v2 Landing Page: https://hyperdx.io/v2 [1]: https://www.uber.com/blog/logging/ [2]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/log-analytics-using-clickhouse/ [3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDj3_jMsCXg&list=PLvQF73bM4-...
125 points · Open discussion
mikeshi42·Apr 2, 2024Submission

Show HN: HyperDX Local – Open-source Datadog alternative for local debugging/dev

Hi HN, Mike and Warren here! We’ve been building an open source local-dev-friendly mode for HyperDX (hyperdx.io). It's a single Docker container that lets you view logs, metrics, and traces for local development in a similar way you can use them for production (live tail, filter/correlate logs & spans, build charts, flamegraph, etc.) Basically, imagine you can run Datadog in a single container for local development. We does this by spinning up an OpenTelemetry collector, Clickhouse DB and HyperDX UI all in a single container - it only takes a few seconds to start and lets you start live tailing your local logs and traces immediately (and graph metrics of course). README (w/ demo gif): https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx/blob/main/LOCAL.md We started building local mode as it became one of our most loved [1] community issue after sharing
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HyperDX. It made sense - as we constantly use HyperDX to debug our own issues locally, and have found it to be a huge productivity boost for things like… 1. Tailing multiple container logs (and grepping/isolating them) without a ton of different terminal splits open at the same time. 2. Be able to sensibly view structured logs and correlated traces to debug local issues (because you’re using structured logging and tracing right?) instead of adding ad-hoc console statements that print out exactly what I could’ve gotten from tracing. 3. Testing telemetry are actually emitting/correlating as expected, before shipping it all the way out to prod and realizing I accidentally created a very expensive high-cardinality metric or a span that has the wrong properties. We spent some time packaging & tuning our existing OSS stack to run in a single container with less memory/space requirements by staring at `dive` to slim down the image and applied incantations from documentation until memory usage improved. Additionally we removed a few non-local-friendly things like authentication requirements and extraneous services. It still has all the goodness you’d want - so you can full text search your logs/traces, live tail all your events, view spans correlated with logs (and vice versa), create dashboards based on logs, metrics, traces, and is fully OpenTelemetry compatible - just point your Otel SDK/collector to http://localhost:4318 (or 4317 for the grpc folks) and you’re already good to go. I’m excited to share what we’ve been working on and would love to hear your feedback and opinions! Spin up the container yourself to try it out: docker run -p 8000:8000 -p 4318:4318 -p 4317:4317 -p 8080:8080 -p 8002:8002 hyperdx/hyperdx-local Main Open Source Repo: https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx Hosted Demo (in case you want to play around in a cloud sandbox instead): https://api.hyperdx.io/login/demo HyperDX Landing Page: https://hyperdx.io [1]: https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx/issues/7
29 points · Open discussion

Show HN: Ellipsis – Automatic pull request reviews

TLDR; Ellipsis is a GitHub app that automatically reviews, summarizes, and answers questions about pull requests. Hi HN, @hunterbrooks and @nbrad here, cofounders at Ellipsis. We’re on a mission to build an AI software engineer. So far, we’ve built the automatic PR review functionality we’re sharing with you today. Whenever a PR is opened, Ellipsis will automatically: - append a summary of changes to the PR body, - perform a code review, checking for best practices like DRY, descriptive variable names, etc. - check for violations of any of the custom rules you’ve provided The most common question we get is “does it work?”, so we’ve added a 7 day free trial. Here are some examples from popular open source repositories within the past week: - https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx/pull/326 - https://github.com/relari-ai/continuous-ev
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al/pull/43 - https://github.com/jxnl/instructor/pull/467 - https://github.com/ion-design/numi/pull/1 You can also tag @ellipsis-dev in a comment and ask it for a re-review or to answer a question about the PR. You’ll get a new review for every commit that’s pushed to the PR branch. Our docs (https://docs.ellipsis.dev/review) have more info. Today, 17 companies, including PromptLayer and Warp (W23) are using Ellipsis. We’re working on the code generation component (ex: tag Ellipsis to fix bugs), but that’s still in a public beta. Ellipsis doesn’t store or train models on your code. Ask: Try it out, it takes 2 clicks to install at https://www.ellipsis.dev. Feedback? team@ellipsis.dev
18 points · Open discussion
HyperDX (YC S22) | Founding Backend Engineer | Hybrid SF/San Mateo | $115k - 180k We're building an open source, dev friendly observability tool (think Datadog, but something developers actually love to use and companies can actually afford). We're in the intersection of needing to build rock solid infrastructure ingesting TBs of data, searching it incredibly quickly and scalably, and layering on top a buttery smooth DX from our language-specific SDKs, APIs and web app. We're super early and hiring our first founding engineer. We already have a cloud product customers pay for and love, loads of runway regardless of the wider economy, 5k+ Github stars, and tons of hard technical problems. The vast majority of our work is open source, so you can get a sense of what you'd be working with here: https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx Our job lis
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ting is here as well: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hyperdx/jobs/1Ja2psR-f... Come by our discord as well if you just want to talk shop: https://hyperdx.io/discord I'm Mike, one of the cofounders. If you love shipping quickly and want to help us build from the ground up an open source developer tool (that devs won't hate when they're on-call), let me know! mike [at] hyperdx.io
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)
Biased as a founder in the space [1] but I think with OpenTelemetry + OSS extensible observability tooling, the holy grail of one tool is more realizable than ever. Vendor lock in with Otel now is hopefully a thing of the past - but now that more obs solutions are going open source, hopefully it's not necessarily true that one tool would be mediocre over all use cases (since DD and the likes are inherently limited by their own engineering teams, vs OSS products can have community/customer contributions to improve the surface area over time on top of the core maintainer's work). [1] https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx
In Migrating to OpenTelemetry
HyperDX (YC S22) | Founding Engineer | SF Bay Area HQ | REMOTE We're building an open source, dev friendly observability tool (think Datadog, but something developers actually love to use and companies can actually afford). We're in the intersection of needing to build rock solid infrastructure ingesting TBs of data, searching it incredibly quickly and scalably, and layering on top a buttery smooth DX from our language-specific SDKs, APIs and web app. We're super early and hiring our first founding engineer. We already have a cloud product customers pay for and love, loads of runway regardless of the wider economy, 5k+ Github stars weeks after our OSS launch, and tons of hard technical problems. The vast majority of our work is open source, so you can get a sense of what you'd be working with here: https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx Our
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job listing is here as well: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hyperdx/jobs/zFXTbzl-f... Come by our discord as well if you just want to talk shop: https://discord.gg/FErRRKU78j I'm Mike, one of the cofounders. If you love shipping quickly and want to help us build from the ground up an open source developer tool (that devs won't hate when they're on-call), let me know! mike [at] hyperdx.io
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)
> I mean no slander or disrespect to anyone involved, but there was a DataDog alternative posted sometime in the last few weeks that had a docker-compose with like 15 containers in it. If this was us [1] (an OSS Datadog alternative posted last week :D ), we do have quite a bit (11, 2 are optional) but we're working on bringing it down. We currently split our ingestion pipeline into 3 independently scalable bits, but we can probably bring it down into 1 for any small-scale deployment. Otherwise we do have the standard need for a cache (redis), db (mongo), main storage (clickhouse), and then the standard API server + frontend, and a separate task to run alerts. There's likely a few more things we can merge together, but it comes at the expense of making it unscalable to workloads typical to a company and divergence in the code base, which o
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verall doesn't seem like the right tradeoff. Imo the real concern as someone that personally owns too many tiny VM instances is resource footprint - which can be tuned down to ~1GB of memory for us (depending on server load). Feel free to open an issue too if you think there's something we can adjust there as well. [1] https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx
In Show HN: Bigcapital - A open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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