OpenObserve Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

OpenObserve hosting gives you a private place to send application telemetry, with the data on a server you rent rather than in a vendor's cloud. Deploy OpenObserve from the OneClick catalog, set the root email and password, and xCloud runs the pinned single-node release behind HTTPS on your domain. Use it as a self-hosted observability platform for logs, metrics and traces.

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What is OpenObserve?

Self-hosted OpenObserve is an observability platform: a cloud-native tool for logs, metrics, traces, analytics and Real User Monitoring, written in Rust and licensed under AGPL-3.0. Its README presents it as a cost-effective alternative to Datadog, Splunk and Elasticsearch. It is OpenTelemetry native, queries logs and traces with SQL and metrics with SQL or PromQL, and ships dashboards, alerts and ingest pipelines in one tool, so teams need not run separate products for each signal.

On xCloud the template runs OpenObserve v0.91.5 as a single process in local mode, pinned by digest, with all state under /data on the openobserve_data volume. You set the root email and password at install; HTTPS comes from xCloud nginx. It is a single-node deployment, with no high availability, object storage or clustering.

From Sign-Up to a Live Observability Stack In Just 3 Easy Steps

A working OpenObserve normally needs a container, a data volume, a reverse proxy and a certificate before the first log arrives. This ends at the sign-in page.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick OpenObserve from the OneClick catalog. Choose a domain and a server, then enter the root admin email and a password that meets the install form's rules.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We run public.ecr.aws/zinclabs/openobserve at v0.91.5, pinned by digest, in single-node local mode, mount the openobserve_data volume at /data and publish port 5080 over HTTPS.
Step 03
Send Your First Record
Sign in with the root credentials, open Data Sources, pick a protocol and send one synthetic record to a test stream. Confirm it shows in Logs search before you route production telemetry.

Everything OpenObserve Does, On Your Own Server

Single-node OpenObserve runs here with its state under /data on a volume you control.

Log Search And Analytics
Full-text search, SQL queries and filters over centrally stored logs, with a query builder, dashboards and alerts built from the same data.
Distributed Tracing
Follow a request across services with flamegraphs and Gantt charts, and click any span to open the whole trace behind a slow call.
Metrics With SQL Or PromQL
Ingest metrics, query them with SQL or PromQL and chart them on dashboards; upstream lists 19+ built-in chart types.
Alerts On Any Signal
Set thresholds on logs, metrics or traces and route notifications to channels you configure, with alert history kept for review.
Pipelines On Ingest
Enrich, redact, reduce or normalise records as they arrive, including converting logs to metrics, without adding an external processing tool.
Frontend Monitoring
Real User Monitoring tracks performance and errors in the browser and supports session replay for your own web applications.

Everything You Need To Run Your Observability 24/7

Hosting for OpenObserve, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

OpenObserve 0.91.5 deployed instantly
Image pinned by digest
Persistent openobserve_data volume
Root credentials set at install
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With OpenObserve

Logs, metrics and traces in one platform
A small engineering team sends application logs, host metrics and traces to one URL instead of stitching three tools together, then builds dashboards and alerts from the same stream data.
Search production errors with SQL
An on-call engineer filters logs in the query builder or writes SQL to find the failing requests, then jumps to the trace that shows which service was slow.
Keep telemetry off third-party servers
A team that cannot ship logs to a vendor stores them on its own VPS, and sets per-stream retention to match its disk and its own data policy.
Redact data before it is stored
A platform engineer uses ingest pipelines to strip secrets or personal fields from records on arrival, so sensitive values never land in stored telemetry.

OpenObserve vs Alternatives

Datadog: OpenObserve's README presents it as an open-source Datadog alternative for logs, metrics, traces and frontend monitoring. Here it runs on your own Cloud VPS, with its telemetry on a volume you control.
Splunk: OpenObserve's README names Splunk among the tools it is designed as a cost-effective alternative to. In this template OpenObserve runs as one single-node process in local mode, with all state under /data.
Elasticsearch: OpenObserve's README also names Elasticsearch among the tools it is an alternative to. It queries logs and traces with SQL and metrics with SQL or PromQL, and ships as a single Rust binary.
SigNoz: SigNoz is another open-source observability option in the OneClick catalog. OpenObserve is OpenTelemetry native and, in this template, keeps logs, metrics and traces in one process with local storage under /data.
Loki: Loki is a log aggregation option in the OneClick catalog. OpenObserve handles logs, metrics, traces and Real User Monitoring in one tool, with dashboards, alerts and ingest pipelines built in.

Ready To Run Your Own Observability Platform?

OpenObserve on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. The telemetry volume, retention and query load stay yours to tune.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Is OpenObserve a Datadog alternative?

Its README presents it as an open-source Datadog alternative for logs, metrics, traces and frontend monitoring. Here it runs as one single-node process on your Cloud VPS. Check whether you need features of Datadog beyond that scope, and note this template has no clustering.

OpenObserve vs Elasticsearch: which is better?

It depends on the workload, so this page makes no ranking claim. Upstream names Elasticsearch as a tool OpenObserve is an alternative to and says it queries with SQL and PromQL. This template runs one node in local mode, so judge it against your own ingest volume.

Does OpenObserve support OpenTelemetry?

Yes. Its README calls it OpenTelemetry native, and the template README says it supports several ingestion protocols and APIs. Open Data Sources after you sign in and copy the endpoint and authentication example it generates for your installed version.

Where does OpenObserve store its data?

On the openobserve_data volume, mounted at /data. In this local single-node mode that volume holds metadata, the write-ahead log and the stored telemetry. It is not object storage, so disk size and per-stream retention decide how long data lasts.

Can I self-host OpenObserve with Docker?

Yes. The OpenObserve Docker hosting template runs the public.ecr.aws/zinclabs/openobserve image at v0.91.5 in local mode, with one volume and a localhost-bound port 5080. xCloud adds the nginx proxy and HTTPS, so there is no compose file to write.

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How much RAM does OpenObserve need?

The manifest asks for 2048 MB of RAM, 2 CPU cores and 20 GB of disk as a baseline, and this page sells the 6 GB tier. Ingestion rate, retention, query concurrency and indexing drive real use, so watch disk and memory and move to a larger server before production ingest.

How do I update OpenObserve?

Not automatically. The template pins v0.91.5 by digest and existing sites stay on their installation snapshot. Read the upstream release notes, stop or buffer ingestion, back up the whole volume, then redeploy a newer pinned version. A rollback may need the pre-upgrade volume.

Is OpenObserve free and open source?

Yes. The source at v0.91.5 carries the GNU Affero General Public License v3, so there is no licence fee to run it. Upstream's README flags some multi-region features as Enterprise, and this template does not enable them. Your xCloud bill covers the server.

Who owns the data stored in OpenObserve?

You do. Logs, metrics and traces sit on the openobserve_data volume on your own server, and no third party holds them. xCloud runs the server and the deployment. Logs can contain secrets or personal data, so filter at the source and set retention.

What should I back up for OpenObserve?

The openobserve_data volume, which holds metadata, WAL and stored telemetry. For a consistent backup, the template README says to quiesce ingestion and stop OpenObserve before a filesystem snapshot, keep off-server copies, and test a restore in an isolated instance.

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Can OpenObserve cloud hosting scale to a cluster?

Not with this template. It deploys OpenObserve's single-node local mode and does not provide upstream high availability, S3 storage, PostgreSQL, NATS or cluster coordination. For redundancy or horizontal scaling, follow upstream's HA architecture guidance outside this OneClick.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.