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Observability that scales with you, not against you.

Observatory is a unified metrics, logs, and traces platform built for engineering teams who want full visibility without the cardinality bill. Open source, self-hostable, and cloud-ready.

Trusted by infrastructure teams at

  • Beacon
  • Northwind
  • Grayfield
  • Sentinel
  • Arborlight
  • Quill

Features

Everything you expect.
None of the things you don't.

Observatory ships the observability primitives every team needs, without the proprietary lock-in or the cardinality overage fees that quietly ruin your quarter.

  • Metrics, logs, and traces

    Unified ingestion across the three pillars. Query everything from one place with a familiar SQL-flavored syntax. No proprietary DSL to learn.

  • Cardinality without limits

    Tag every metric with whatever you need: customer ID, region, deploy SHA. No overage fees, no pre-aggregation gotchas, no dashboards that lie.

  • Self-hosted by default

    Run Observatory inside your own VPC. One binary, predictable storage, your data never leaves your perimeter. Cloud version available when you want it.

Customer stories

Teams ship faster when they
can actually see what's happening.

  • We replaced a six-figure observability contract with Observatory in a long weekend. The query latency on high-cardinality metrics is honestly silly.

    Priya Mahadevan

    Staff SRE, Beacon

  • The fact that we can tag every metric with a deploy SHA and not panic about the bill is the thing. That single capability paid for the migration.

    Henrik Olsen

    Platform Lead, Northwind

Ready when you are.

Self-host the open-source build, or start on Observatory Cloud with a free tier that fits a small team comfortably.