OpenObserve Surpasses 20,000 GitHub Stars as Developers Embrace Open Source Observability
Milestone caps a year of rapid growth for the Rust-based platform, now used by more than 8,000 organizations, including Fortune 100 enterprises ingesting petabytes of telemetry daily
OpenObserve, the open source, unified observability platform, today announced that its flagship project has surpassed 20,000 stars on GitHub, placing it among the most popular open source observability projects in the world. The milestone reflects growing developer demand for a simpler and more cost-effective alternative to legacy tools such as Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch.
Built in Rust and deployable as a single binary, OpenObserve consolidates logs, metrics, traces, frontend monitoring, pipelines, and LLM observability into one platform. By storing telemetry in columnar format on low-cost object storage, OpenObserve delivers up to 140x lower storage costs than Elasticsearch, a value proposition that has resonated with engineering teams facing rising telemetry volumes and unpredictable SaaS bills.
"Twenty thousand stars represent tens of thousands of engineers who looked at the status quo in observability and decided there had to be a better way," said Prabhat Sharma, founder and CEO of OpenObserve. "Every star is a developer who believes observability should be open, simple, and affordable at any scale. This community is the foundation of everything we build, and we're just getting started."
