ClickStack: ClickHouse’s New Observability Stack Unveiled -…

About this episode

The ClickHouse open source project has gained interest in the observability community, thanks to its outstanding performance benchmarks. Now ClickHouse is doubling down on observability with the release of ClickStack, a new open source observability stack that bundles in ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry and HyperDX frontend. I invited Mike Shi, the co-founder of HyperDX and co-creator of ClickStack, to tell us all about this new project. Mike is Head of Observability at ClickHouse, and brings prior observability experience with Elasticsearch and more. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/73f129a179a3/ Show Notes: 00:00 episode and guest intro 04:38 taking the open source path as an entrepreneur 10:51 the HyperDX observability user experience 16:08 challenges in implementing observability directly on ClickHouse 20:03 intro to ClickStack and incorporating OpenTelemetry 32:35 balancing simplicity and flexibility 36:15 SQL vs. Lucene query languages 39:06 performance, cardinality and the new JSON type 52:14 use cases in production by OpenAI, Anthropic, Tesla and more 55:38 episode outro Resources: HyperDX https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx ClickStack https://clickhouse.com/docs/use-cases/observability/clickstack Shopify’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability: https://medium.com/p/9c0b299a04dd ClickHouse: Breaking the Speed Limit for Observability and Analytics https://medium.com/p/2004160b2f5e New JSON data type for ClickHouse: https://clickhouse.com/blog/a-new-powerful-json-data-type-for-clickhouse Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Mike Shi ======= Twitter: https://x.com/MikeShi42 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeshi42 BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mikeshi42.bsky.social OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.