Blog posts by Jake Swiss

Jake leads marketing at OpenObserve. Jake spent years as a product marketer in observability, and brings a background in open source technology and reliability engineering to the role.

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Turn Reliability Into a Number: SLOs and Burn-Rate Alerts Are Here

Release

SRE Alerts Observability

Turn Reliability Into a Number: SLOs and Burn-Rate Alerts Are Here

OpenObserve's reliability release: native SLOs with error budgets and multi-window burn-rate alerting, grouped alerts that track each host or metric series independently, and bidirectional Terraform and GitOps support for observability as code, managing alerts, dashboards, and SLOs as code.

Simran Kumari, Jake Swiss

2026-08-19

Let's Get Proactive! Synthetic Monitoring Is Here

Release

Monitoring Alerts RUM

Let's Get Proactive! Synthetic Monitoring Is Here

Synthetic Monitoring is now in beta in OpenObserve Cloud: HTTP, TCP, TLS, and SSH checks with per-type assertions, full Playwright browser checks from a no-code recorder or your own scripts, and Private Locations to reach internal endpoints, all landing in the same platform as your logs, metrics, and traces.

Jake Swiss, Simran Kumari

2026-08-06

Your Dashboards Are No Longer a Reason to Stay

Announcement

Dashboards Dashboard Migration Datadog

Your Dashboards Are No Longer a Reason to Stay

Free tool that converts Datadog, Grafana, Kibana, and CloudWatch dashboards to OpenObserve. Queries translated, layouts preserved, no signup required.

Jake Swiss

2026-07-22

Release

Major Product Update! OpenObserve v0.40.0

OpenObserve v0.40.0 comes just in time for the new year, a milestone release that brings major architectural improvements, powerful new alerting capabilities, enhanced observability features, and significant UI/UX refinements. This release represents months of work focused on making OpenObserve more powerful, reliable, and user-friendly.

Simran Kumari, Jake Swiss

2026-01-06

Major Product Update! OpenObserve v0.16.1

Release

Alerts Dashboards Metrics

Major Product Update! OpenObserve v0.16.1

OpenObserve v0.16.1 delivers meaningful new features including Alert History for debugging monitoring reliability, Pipeline History for execution tracking, and automatic Log Pattern extraction that groups millions of logs into actionable insights. This release brings significant performance improvements with optimized indexing and query execution, alongside UI/UX refinements that enhance readability and usability across the platform. Teams can now better understand their system behavior, reduce alert fatigue through deduplication, and troubleshoot issues faster with comprehensive execution history and diagnostics.

Jake Swiss, Manas Sharma

2025-11-11

OpenObserve is Now Available on the AWS Marketplace

Announcement

AWS

OpenObserve is Now Available on the AWS Marketplace

OpenObserve is now available on AWS Marketplace! Discover how teams can streamline observability with faster deployment, simplified billing, and seamless integration within their AWS infrastructure.

Jake Swiss

2025-07-25

How Avatar Achieved SOC 2 Compliance, Improved Uptime, and Saved Costs with OpenObserve

Avatar achieved SOC 2 compliance, improved uptime to 99.99%, and saved 60% on observability costs with OpenObserve's unified monitoring platform.

Pricing Policy Update for OpenObserve Cloud

OpenObserve is transitioning to a fully usage-based pricing model effective June 2nd, 2025, eliminating minimum fees and the free tier. The new pay-as-you-go structure charges $0.30 per GB for log, metric, and trace ingestion, with additional fees for queries, pipelines, and advanced features like RUM and error tracking. Existing free-tier customers receive a 30-day exemption period, while current standard-tier customers will have their flat monthly fees removed after 30 days. New customers can access a 14-day free trial. The company emphasizes that their open-source version remains completely free for self-hosting, providing users with flexibility to choose between managed cloud services or self-managed deployments. This pricing change aims to create a more transparent, scalable cost structure that aligns charges with actual resource consumption while supporting OpenObserve's continued development and platform improvements.Description - OpenObserve announces usage-based pricing starting June 2025. Free tier ends, pay-as-you-go begins at $0.30/GB ingestion. 30-day transition period for existing users. Self-hosting remains free.

Jake Swiss

2025-06-02