# ClickHouse Introduces ClickHouse Observability, a turnkey solution for SREs and AI Agents

- Link: https://thestackobserver.com/clickhouse-introduces-clickhouse-observability-a-turnkey-solution-for-sres-and-ai-agents/
- Published: 2026-11-09T18:00:00-05:00
- Author: Brian Ducharme

_As ClickHouse expands its platform to help developers build, observe, and secure
modern applications, the new ClickHouse Observability service brings full-fidelity
telemetry, AI-driven investigations, and affordable long-term retention to a fully
managed, serverless offering._

Now in public beta, ClickHouse Observability combines full-fidelity telemetry, fast
concurrent queries, and affordable long-term retention in a serverless service that
helps SREs and their agents resolve failures faster.

[ClickHouse](https://clickhouse.com/) is a leading data platform that enables organizations
to build fast, scalable, and cost-efficient applications. Powered by its high-performance,
open-source analytical database, ClickHouse helps developers process and query massive
volumes of data with sub-second latency. Organizations around the world rely on 
ClickHouse to power real-time analytics, observability, data warehousing, and AI
applications at scale.

Today, ClickHouse announced the public beta of **ClickHouse Observability**, a turnkey,
serverless observability solution for site reliability engineers (SREs) and their
AI agents available on ClickHouse Cloud. Using ClickHouse Observability, customers
send OpenTelemetry data to one managed endpoint, and ClickHouse handles the rest.

ClickHouse Observability makes it affordable to retain detailed logs, metrics, and
traces for longer, without sampling or roll-ups to control costs. Engineers can 
investigate rare failures, compare historical patterns, and identify affected users
across high-cardinality telemetry. Fast, concurrent queries let SREs and agents 
explore possible causes in parallel, with the evidence and history needed to reach
the root cause.

The service brings search, dashboards, alerts, trace investigation, session replay,
and collaborative AI notebooks into one experience. Teams can also connect their
preferred agents, models, and frameworks through the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
and SQL. Purpose-built investigation tools bring production telemetry alongside 
code, runbooks, and operational context, while engineers guide agentic investigations
and review the findings.

“Engineers and agents need complete evidence to understand production failures,”
said Mike Shi, head of Observability. “ClickHouse Observability makes that evidence
affordable to retain and fast to investigate. We manage the platform so teams can
focus on resolving incidents, using the tools and agents they choose, while they
benefit from the performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of ClickHouse.”

The service builds on ClickHouse’s established role in observability at companies
including [](https://clickhouse.com/videos/meetupsf_march_2025_04)[OpenAI](https://clickhouse.com/blog/why-openai-uses-clickhouse-for-petabyte-scale-observability)
[,](https://clickhouse.com/videos/meetupsf_march_2025_04) [DoorDash](https://clickhouse.com/videos/meetupsf_dec_2024)
[, Netflix](https://clickhouse.com/videos/meetupsf_march_2025_04), [LinkedIn](https://clickhouse.com/blog/linkedin-observability-at-scale),
[Shopify](https://clickhouse.com/blog/shopify-observability-at-global-scale), [Mercado Libre](https://clickhouse.com/blog/mercado-libre-observability-on-clickhouse-cloud),
and [Clever](https://clickhouse.com/blog/clever-observability-at-scale). After moving
its logging workload to ClickHouse Cloud, Clever increased the proportion of logs
indexed from 10% to 100% and extended searchable retention from three to 60 days,
at no additional cost.

**Part of the expanding ClickHouse platform**

The launch of ClickHouse Observability is part of a broader expansion of the ClickHouse
platform for building, observing, and securing modern applications. Alongside the
general availability of Managed Postgres and the introduction of ClickHouse Security,
ClickHouse is bringing transactional, analytical, observability, and security workloads
together on a platform built for performance, scale, and cost efficiency. Each offering
addresses a distinct workload while benefiting from ClickHouse’s high-performance
data infrastructure.

**Availability**

ClickHouse Observability is available in public beta with usage-based pricing. ClickStack,
ClickHouse’s open-source observability stack, remains available as an open-source
project.

**About ClickHouse**

ClickHouse is the company behind the open source columnar database built for fast
analytics at scale. Its database and managed cloud platform support real-time analytics,
observability, data warehousing, and AI applications. ClickHouse Observability, 
powered by open source ClickStack, brings the engine’s query performance and cost
efficiency to a fully managed service for SREs and their agents. Across its offerings,
ClickHouse helps teams analyze growing volumes of data, investigate production systems,
and build data-intensive applications. For more information, visit [clickhouse.com](https://clickhouse.com/).