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
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Dotan Horovits
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Mike Shi
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