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Real-Time Alerts. Signal, Not Noise.

Real-time and scheduled. Built for scale.

Detect and resolve systemic issues with robust alerting built for modern observability.

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OpenObserve Alert Dashboard
Alerts Where Your Team Already Works

Alerts Where Your Team Already Works

Slack, email, or webhook, no new tool to check.

SQL for Logs, PromQL for Metrics

SQL for Logs, PromQL for Metrics

Write alert conditions in the query language that fits the signal.

Real-Time or Scheduled, Your Call

Real-Time or Scheduled, Your Call

Catch spikes the instant they happen, or check for slow drift on a schedule.

Alerting & Notifications

Get Paged for What Actually Matters

Alert Types

  • Scheduled Alerts

    Detect meaningful patterns and catch gradual drifts that instant checks might miss.

  • Real-time Alerts

    Catch issues the moment they occur. Continuously monitor your most important data streams.

  • Anomalies

    Use machine learning to detect unusual patterns in your data without manually setting thresholds.

Alert Types

Alert Configuration

  • Flexible Condition Building

    Build alert logic exactly how you need it, use SQL for complex scenarios or quick conditions when simplicity matters.

  • Aggregation Support

    Configure aggregation windows that catch sustained issues and filter out momentary spikes and false positives.

Alert Configuration

Alert Notifications

  • Multiple Notification Destinations

    Deliver alerts exactly where your team needs them, Slack, email, webhooks, and more.

  • Smart Silence Periods

    End alert storms and notification fatigue with intelligent suppression rules. Define custom quiet periods.

Alert Notifications

Alert Controls

  • Advanced Threshold Settings

    Trigger alerts with precision by setting thresholds that respond to evolving data patterns.

  • Frequency Optimization

    Adjust evaluation frequency to balance early detection against system load.

Alert Controls
Benchmarks

Measured against industry leaders

Same telemetry, same workloads, one platform. Every number is OpenObserve against a named vendor - not an industry average.

  • vs. Datadog

    8×

    more cost-effective

    8x cost reduction means you can unify your observability into a single platform.

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  • vs. Elastic

    140×

    storage efficiency

    140x storage means longer retention doesn't necessarily mean expensive bills.

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  • vs. Grafana stack

    5–15×

    faster performance

    5x to 15x faster queries mean dashboards load in milliseconds, not minutes.

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See how much you would save switching today.

Testimonials

Teams trust OpenObserve with their alerting

Correlate between the environments and signals across various sources with OpenObserve built-in correlation engine.

Debo Ray

“OpenObserve helped us migrate from Datadog in under an hour... reducing observability costs by 4x.”

4x

Lower observability cost

< 1 hour

Migrated off Datadog

Flat pricing

No month-end surprises

Debo Ray

Debo Ray

CEO, DevZero

Alerts FAQs

Resources

Explore guides, videos, and articles

to help you get the most out of Alerts.

Ready to get started?

Try OpenObserve today for more efficient and performant observability.

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