Is openobserve still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change 8 days ago.

Can I trust openobserve?

New, little track record. 0 stars, 1 months old. Look at the code and the owner before running it.

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How to install openobserve on Windows (Dhruv1969Karnwal/openobserve) · gitmanual

How to install on Windows

Dhruv1969Karnwal/openobserve

Open source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, RUM (web, android, ios), Session replay, pipelines, SLO and LLM observability. A sophisticated, simple and highly performant alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment.

Rust

Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (AGPL-3.0).
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change 8 days ago.
Can I trust it?: New, little track record0 stars, 1 months old. Look at the code and the owner before running it.

Difficulty: Moderate
Time: about 15 min
Stars: ★ 0
Activity: Updated this month

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Will it work on Windows?

Yes, with Docker on Windows

It's a self-hosted app: the README runs it with Docker, and you open it in your browser.
On Windows that means installing Docker Desktop first.

Your system

macOS Windows Linux

Start here

Website ↗openobserve.aiThe project's own site.

Also: Docs ↗ · In the browser ↗

Heads-upBuilding it yourself? It also needs 14 settings in .env (2 secret).

Run it with Docker

A self-hosted app: Docker runs it on your computer and you open it in the browser. Needs Docker Desktop (or Docker Engine on Linux). Run docker compose commands inside the cloned repo folder.

Docker

docker run -d  --name openobserve  -v $PWD/data:/data  -p 5080:5080  -e ZO_ROOT_USER_EMAIL="root@example.com"  -e ZO_ROOT_USER_PASSWORD="Complexpass#123"  public.ecr.aws/zinclabs/openobserve:latest

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

Did you get it running?

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Parts list

1×Rust nightly-2026-05-20runtime
1×Docker tool

14× settings in .env

ZO_ROOT_USER_EMAIL
ZO_ROOT_USER_PASSWORDsecret
ZO_MAX_FILE_SIZE_ON_DISK
ZO_FILE_PUSH_INTERVAL
ZO_S3_BUCKET_NAME
ZO_LOCAL_MODE
RUST_LOG
OO_URL
OO_ORG
OO_USER
OO_PASSsecret
RN_ANDROID_APP_ID
RN_SERVICE
RN_ENV

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Good to know

Dev Container config found — you can open it in VS Code Dev Containers or GitHub Codespaces for a zero-setup environment.
Has AGENTS.md — instructions for coding agents. You can open Claude Code (or another agent) in the cloned folder and ask it to do the setup for you.
Nested projects: scripts/ai-review/package.json, scripts/translations/requirements.txt, src/api/common/Cargo.toml, src/api/grpc/Cargo.toml and 11 more

Details

License: AGPL-3.0
Open issues: 1
Branch: main

Files we read (13)

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

.env.example

.github/workflows/api-testing.yml

.github/workflows/audit-checker.yml

.github/workflows/auto-merge-ready-for-ci.yml

.github/workflows/bug-checker.yml

.github/workflows/build-fork-pr-image.yml

.github/workflows/build-pr-image.yml

CONTRIBUTING.md

Cargo.toml

README.md

rust-toolchain.toml

tests/mobile-testing/.env.example

9,545 files in the repo