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

About this episode

The episode discusses the unveiling of ClickStack, a new observability stack from ClickHouse, featuring insights from guest Mike Shi.

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…

People in this episode

Host: Dotan Horovits

Guest: Mike Shi

Topics covered

• ClickHouse
• observability
• ClickStack
• OpenTelemetry
• HyperDX
• performance benchmarks
• open source

Keywords

• ClickStack
• observability stack
• ClickHouse
• OpenTelemetry
• HyperDX
• performance
• JSON type

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ClickHouse, HyperDX, OpenTelemetry, OpenAI, Anthropic, Tesla

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