About
OpenObserve is an open source observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, frontend monitoring, session replay, and incident workflows in a single system. It runs as one binary or Helm chart, uses SQL and PromQL for querying, and stores data on low-cost object storage such as local disk, S3, MinIO, GCS, and Azure Blob Storage.
The product is aimed at DevOps and platform engineering teams that need self-hosted or cloud observability with predictable ingestion-based pricing. The pricing page lists a 14-day free trial for Cloud Pay As You Go, and the Self-Hosted Enterprise plan is free up to 50 GB of ingestion per day; the open source edition is also described as free forever for self hosting.
- Unified logs, metrics, traces, and RUM
- One binary or Helm chart deployment
- SQL and PromQL query support
- Apache Parquet columnar storage
- Up to 50 GB/day self-hosted free tier
- 14-day cloud free trial
- OpenTelemetry-native ingestion
Free Tier Value
This free tier is a 14-day trial on the Cloud Pay As You Go plan with no credit card required, so it has real value but only for a short window. The closest paid plan is usage-based rather than a fixed monthly subscription, and the trial includes the same core Cloud capabilities plus included retention and no seat charges, so a buyer would reasonably value it at about half a month of access to that plan’s practical utility.
What's included in the free tier
- 14-day free trial on the Cloud Pay As You Go plan, no credit card required to start.
- 20 AI credits during preview for AI-powered features.
- Unlimited users on all OpenObserve Cloud plans, with no per-seat charges.
- No limits on dashboards, alerts, or data sources on Cloud plans.
- 15 months of metrics retention included at no extra charge.
- 30 days of logs, traces, RUM, and other non-metrics retention included at no extra charge.
- Single Sign-On included at no additional cost on Cloud Pay As You Go and Self-Hosted Enterprise plans.
See OpenObserve pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Professional
- trial_duration
- 14 days
- metrics_retention
- 15 months
- non_metrics_retention
- 30 days
- Logs, metrics, traces, RUM, session replay, error tracking
- Included retention for metrics and non-metrics data
- Annual commitment discount available
- No per-seat charges
- Cloud plan
Enterprise
- users
- unlimited
- Additional retention for non-metrics data
- Pipelines
- Sensitive data redaction
- AI-powered observability
- Incident management and AI SRE agent
- AI assistant
- Unlimited users
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
Pricing extracted from OpenObserve's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
