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OpenObserve: Lower Costs

Name: OpenObserve: Lower Costs
Author: openobserve

Get a sophisticated observability platform, for founders needing logs, metrics, and traces monitoring.

intermediate⏱ 1-2 hours💵 Free

20,895 stars1,003 forksTypeScriptGuide quality 8/10Updated 8/11/2026100% free · open source

What it is

Use a pre-build platform to collect, analyze data and make decisions.

Real use case example

"A founder, Alex, is struggling with high server costs. She uses Openobserve to connect to her server logs, track performance metrics, and generate alerts when utilization exceeds 80%. By optimizing server resources, Alex reduces costs by 20% within a month."

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When to use it

•You need to monitor and analyze logs, metrics, and traces for your application
•You're looking for a highly performant and scalable observability solution
•You want to reduce storage costs associated with observability tools

Ready-to-paste prompt

Run OpenObserve with a custom configuration file: ./openobserve -config-path=/path/to/config.yaml

Heads up: Make sure you have the necessary dependencies and runtime environment to support the OpenObserve binary, as specified in the GitHub README

Saves to your device

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/openobserve && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/openobserve/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/openobserve/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How OpenObserve: Lower Costs works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

OpenObserve: Lower Costs is a very large TypeScript project (~1.8M lines across 5207 code files, plus 736 test files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit this month, AGPL-3.0 license, has a test suite.

Size

Very large codebase

~1.8M lines · 5207 code files · days to read — use, don't read

Setup

Developer setup

A real software project. Use it via its install path; don't expect to read it all.

Runs on

Rust

Needs API keys (.env)

TypeScript 38%Rust 30%Vue 18%JavaScript 12%Python 2%

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it
2
CLAUDE.md
The instructions the AI actually follows
3
src/main.rs
Where the program starts running
4
Cargo.toml
Dependencies and the commands it exposes
5
.env.example
The API keys and settings you must provide

What's in each folder

src/Core code — the actual logic1706 files

web/Frontend / UI4066 files

scripts/Helper scripts17 files

screenshots/Folder16 files

cross/Folder2 files

config/Configuration1 files

deploy/Deployment / infrastructure1 files

qa-reports/Folder1 files

READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksAGPL-3.0 licenseUpdated this month

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/openobserve && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/openobserve/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/openobserve/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

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Details

Creator

openobserve

Language

TypeScript