Know what broke —
in seconds, not dashboards.
Observability that sets up like a side project and scales like infrastructure. Errors, requests, and performance in one place — streaming in under a minute.
free for side projects · no credit card required
| Time | Level | Message |
|---|---|---|
| 14:32:01.284 | info | POST /v1/checkout 201 · 42ms |
| 14:32:01.612 | debug | hit user:usr_8f2 profile |
| 14:32:02.033 | info | invoice.paid → webhook queued |
| 14:32:02.418 | warning | retry queue depth 12 (threshold 50) |
| 14:32:02.902 | info | GET /v1/orders 200 · 8ms |
| 14:32:03.155 | error | stripe timeout after 5000ms · trace 4fa2 |
Loved by developers from the world's leading organizations
0M+
logs/min ingest capacity
Built to keep up with busy apps.
0ms
p99 search latency
Find what you need instantly.
<0s
from install to first log
One snippet, deploy, done.
0
config files needed
No YAML, no servers, no tuning.
Why Observo exists
Observability shouldn't feel like a whole other job.
Most teams don’t have time to babysit an observability stack. ELK clusters, random dashboards, YAML jungles — all just to answer one question: what went wrong?
Whether you’re shipping a side project or running a platform team, you don’t want to spend days wiring logs. You just want errors, requests, and latency in one place, instantly.
Observo removes the overhead. Drop in a small SDK, deploy, and your logs start streaming in under a minute. No servers. No cluster tuning. No 40-page docs before anything works.
It's observability that just works — instead of becoming another system you have to maintain.
Everything's connected
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Simple tools that help you see what your app is doing, without learning a new system — logs, errors, traces, and alerts connected by the same trace ID.
Capture & store instantly
Send JSON logs from your app, API, or background jobs — no schemas, no migrations. Every field is indexed automatically so you can focus on shipping.
{
"event": "checkout.completed",
"amount": 4200,
"trace_id": "4fa2c81b"
}Search & debug live
Find bugs in seconds with filters like status:500. ClickHouse under the hood means answers in milliseconds, even when you’re under pressure.
1,284 matches · 31ms
Live log stream
Watch events stream in real time with live tail — or pipe the same stream into your own app and build custom dashboard views.
streaming · 50k events/min
Distributed tracing
Go from issue to context to fix. Every span is connected to its logs and errors by the same trace ID, so the full story is always one click away.
Error tracking
Similar errors are grouped into issues with the release, environment, and the exact log lines around the failure — root-cause instead of guess.
Smart alerts & webhooks
Never miss a critical error. Set thresholds on any query and get instant notifications in Slack or via webhook.
Error rate above 1%
payments · #incidents · just now
How it works
From log line to insight in milliseconds
Events flow through a durable, horizontally-scalable pipeline. No agents to babysit, no clusters to size.
SDK
Node, Python, Go +
Ingest API
Batched, validated
NATS JetStream
Durable queue
ClickHouse
Columnar storage
Dashboard
Live in <200ms
SDK
Node, Python, Go +
Ingest API
Batched, validated
NATS JetStream
Durable queue
ClickHouse
Columnar storage
Dashboard
Live in <200ms
Durable by default
Every event is acknowledged into NATS JetStream before ingestion returns. Nothing is dropped, even under backpressure.
Columnar storage
ClickHouse compresses events ~10x and scans billions of rows per second, so retention is cheap and queries stay fast.
Real-time fan-out
The same stream powers live tail, alert evaluation, and dashboards — with end-to-end latency under 200ms.
Get started in minutes
Five lines of code. That's it.
No complex setup, no performance hits, no waiting around. Drop in the SDK, deploy, and watch logs appear — no config, no servers, no YAML.
- Typed SDKs for Node.js, Next.js, Python, and Go
- Automatic batching, retries, and backpressure handling
- Scoped API keys per project and environment
- Local dev mode that pretty-prints to your terminal
import { observo } from '@getobservo/node'
observo.init({
apiKey: process.env.OBSERVO_API_KEY,
baseUrl: process.env.OBSERVO_BASE_URL,
})
observo.info('checkout.completed', {
orderId: order.id,
amount: 4200,
})
ClickHouse powered
Queries that finish before you blink
Most log platforms bolt search onto storage built for something else. Observo runs on ClickHouse — a columnar engine designed to scan billions of rows per second.
- Compression
- ~10x
- Scan rate
- 2B rows/s
- Retention cost
- -72%
p99 search · 1B events · full-text filter
Representative internal benchmark. Your workload will vary — but not by enough to make it close.
Loved by developers worldwide
Developers who ship fast love Observo
From launch-day debugging to 3am incidents — what changed when they switched.
“Setup was insanely fast. I dropped in the SDK and real logs were streaming before my coffee got cold.”
“Launch day: 3k signups and a checkout bug at 9am. Live tail pointed at the bad deploy in four minutes. Observo paid for itself before lunch.”
“The trace waterfall connected a payment timeout to a slow query in a service we’d forgotten existed. That one fix paid for a year of Observo.”
“The search speed is unreal — faster than grep on my laptop. I’ve stopped SSH-ing into boxes entirely.”
“We moved about a billion events a day off self-hosted ELK. Queries went from 20 seconds to under 40ms and the bill dropped by 60%.”
“Pricing is super transparent. No hidden fees, no surprise bills at the end of the month.”
Before / after
Why developers switch to Observo
See at a glance how life looks before and after you plug in Observo.
Without Observo
- Too many dashboards to keep in sync.
- Hard to set up and easy to break.
- Slow searches when you’re under pressure.
- YAML everywhere and confusing config files.
- Paying for storage and infra you barely use.
With Observo
- Set up in under a minute with a tiny SDK.
- Search that feels as fast as your editor.
- Live tail streaming straight into your dashboard.
- Webhook alerts before users notice anything.
- Pricing that grows with your app, not your stress.
Pricing
Simple, predictable pricing
Start for free. Upgrade when you grow — no hidden fees, no surprise bills at the end of the month.
Free
$0/mo
Good for side projects and experiments.
- 10k logs / month
- 7-day retention
- Advanced search
- Live tail
- Webhook alerts
- API access
Starter
$9.99/mo
Affordable logging for small SaaS teams.
- 100k logs / month
- 30-day retention
- Advanced search
- Distributed tracing
- Priority support
- API access
Pro
$19.99/mo
For growing teams that ship every week.
- 1M logs / month
- 90-day retention
- Real-time alerts
- Unlimited environments
- 24/7 support
- API access
Ingesting more than a few million logs a month? Talk to us about Scale — custom volume, longer retention, SSO, audit logs, and dedicated regions.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Everything engineers ask before pointing production at us.
Under a minute for most stacks. Install the SDK, set your API key, and logs start streaming. No agents, no sidecars, no config files — the SDK batches and ships events over HTTPS.
Every event lands in ClickHouse, a columnar database built for analytical queries over billions of rows. Combined with our indexing strategy, p99 search latency stays around 38ms even at massive scale.
Focus. Datadog bills per host and per feature; Sentry centers on error tracking. Observo puts logs, traces, and alerts on one ClickHouse engine with volume-based pricing — the 90% of observability you actually use, at a price a side project can afford and a platform team can defend.
Yes. The same SSE endpoint that powers our live tail is available in the SDK, so you can embed real-time log streams directly into your own dashboards.
First-party SDKs for Node.js, Next.js, Python, and Go, with more on the way. Anything that can send JSON over HTTPS can use the ingest API directly.
By event volume, not seats. Every plan includes unlimited team members, all features, and predictable overage pricing — no surprise bills at the end of the month. Past Pro, the Scale plan adds custom volume, longer retention, SSO, audit logs, and dedicated regions.
Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, isolated per project, and stored in your chosen region. API keys are scoped per environment and rotate without downtime.
Focus on your product.
We'll handle your logs.
Set up in under a minute. No learning curve. No maintenance. And your dashboards will finally agree with each other.
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