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ClickStack: ClickHouse’s New Observability Stack Unveiled - OpenObservability Talks S6E03

30 Aug 2025

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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 intro04:38 taking the open source path as an entrepreneur10:51 the HyperDX observability user experience 16:08 challenges in implementing observability directly on ClickHouse20:03 intro to ClickStack and incorporating OpenTelemetry32:35 balancing simplicity and flexibility36:15 SQL vs. Lucene query languages 39:06 performance, cardinality and the new JSON type52:14 use cases in production by OpenAI, Anthropic, Tesla and more55:38 episode outroResources: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/9c0b299a04ddClickHouse: 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-clickhouseSocials:BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.socialTwitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠Dotan Horovits============Twitter: @horovitsLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovitsMastodon: @horovits@fosstodonBlueSky: @horovits.bsky.socialMike Shi=======Twitter: https://x.com/MikeShi42LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeshi42BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mikeshi42.bsky.socialOpenObservability 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.

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