As organizations continue to heavily invest in AI and build more agentic workflows, their telemetry data volumes can surge quickly, and the associated costs can become unpredictable. To regain control of their data, many AI-forward teams are turning to high-throughput, low-latency pipelines to collect and route data to tools such as OpenTelemetry (OTel) and ClickHouse.
But these self-hosted solutions come with drawbacks. While the OTel Collector standardizes how telemetry data is collected and formatted, it lacks the ability to route data flexibly or to enrich, transform, and monitor your data pipelines.
Using Datadog’s vendor-agnostic Observability Pipelines, you can easily collect logs and metrics from the OTel Collector, transform and enrich data, and route them to both ClickHouse and your preferred SIEM.
In this post, we’ll show you how to:
Collect OpenTelemetry data and flexibly route to ClickHouse, Datadog, and your preferred SIEMParse, transform, and enrich your telemetry data before it reaches ClickHouseMonitor your data pipeline’s health and performance






