observai

Observai is an open-source observability platform designed to collect, store, analyze, and visualize telemetry data from software systems and infrastructure. It provides a vendor-neutral solution for observing metrics, traces, and logs, helping operators diagnose performance issues, track service reliability, and optimize resource usage across complex environments.

The architecture of Observai is modular and event-driven. It comprises agents or exporters that instrument applications and collect telemetry, a central processor that normalizes and correlates data, and one or more storage backends capable of handling metrics, logs, and traces. A user interface offers dashboards, search, and alerting, while an API enables programmatic access and integrations with other tools. Observability data can be stored in pluggable backends, including time-series databases for metrics, log stores for logs, and trace stores for distributed traces, with options for cloud-native deployments and on-premises installations.

Key features include multi-type data collection (metrics, logs, traces), auto-instrumentation and agent-based collection, a flexible query system, dashboards and alerting, role-based access control, and scalable deployment options that support clustering and sharding. Observai emphasizes interoperability, supporting open standards and export formats to work with other observability tools and platforms.

History and licensing: The project began as an open collaborative effort in the early 2020s and reached a stable 1.x release in the mid- to late-2020s. It is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, encouraging community contributions and vendor-neutral deployments.

See also: Observability, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana.