ClickHouse, the company behind the world’s fastest analytical database, has announced its acquisition of HyperDX, an open-source observability platform built on ClickHouse. This strategic move underscores ClickHouse’s commitment to delivering high-performance, cost-effective, and scalable solutions for developers and enterprises worldwide, including advanced observability capabilities.
By combining ClickHouse’s unparalleled speed and scalability with HyperDX’s developer-first experience, the acquisition creates a comprehensive observability platform. This platform seamlessly integrates session replay, exceptions, logs, infrastructure metrics, and distributed tracing using an OpenTelemetry-native approach.
“ClickHouse’s analytics capabilities and open ecosystem make it a powerful technology for observability. However, the end-user experience lacked some of the comprehensive features of more established solutions. HyperDX is very exciting, bringing together an enhanced query experience with a more intuitive UI for exploratory observability workflows.” Viktor Eriksson, Lovable
“Observability is fundamentally a data problem,” said Tanya Bragin, VP of Product & Marketing at ClickHouse. “The dataset size dictates how difficult and expensive it will be to build an observability platform. That’s why ClickHouse has been the backbone of observability platforms for years, powering logging, metrics, and tracing solutions at companies like eBay and Netflix.”
ClickHouse initially sought new observability solutions while transitioning from Datadog to their in-house LogHouse stack. This system, built on ClickHouse, managed their extensive petabyte-scale workloads. During this transition, the company discovered HyperDX and recognized its potential to seamlessly convert an existing ClickHouse deployment into a fully functional observability platform.
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“When we started HyperDX, we had two core beliefs: we wanted to build the best open-source observability platform, and ClickHouse was the ONLY database to power it,” said Michael Shi, CEO at HyperDX. “Our mission has always been to help engineers diagnose and resolve production issues faster, and ClickHouse has been a foundational part of that journey from day one.”
Advancing Open-Source Observability
Through collaborative discussions, both companies identified a shared vision:
- Observability should be cost-effective and developer-friendly.
- ClickHouse’s performance and scalability make it the ideal foundation for observability.
- HyperDX’s developer-first approach simplifies implementation for engineering teams.
The integration offers several key benefits:
- Standards-Based Data Collection – ClickHouse and HyperDX remain committed to OpenTelemetry, with ClickHouse now maintaining the ClickHouse OpenTelemetry exporter.
- Open-Source First – Expanding access to robust observability solutions while offering cloud-based services for seamless operations.
- Flexible Data Access – Enabling direct access to observability data with multiple analytical options.
- Blazing Fast Performance – Querying terabytes of data within seconds to support real-time troubleshooting.
HyperDX Cloud will continue to serve and onboard new customers while maintaining and developing the open-source project. Moving forward, the combined roadmap will focus on enhancing observability tools, providing even more powerful solutions to engineering teams worldwide.