The OpenObserve Dashboard Contest: Show Us What You’ve Built

We’ve seen some incredible dashboards built with OpenObserve lately: creative, clever, and downright beautiful ways to bring observability data to life. Now, we’re inviting you to show the world what you’ve built.

Introducing the OpenObserve Dashboard Contest, running until November 21, 2025. Whether you’re visualizing logs, metrics, or traces, we want to see how you use OpenObserve to turn data into insight. Win up to $300 dollars in gift cards and OpenObserve swag!

How to Enter

1. Build a dashboard in OpenObserve (Cloud or OSS). You can submit a net new or existing dashboard in OpenObserve.
2. Share it on LinkedIn and include a screenshot or a short (<1 minute) walkthrough video.
3. In your caption, tell us: The story behind your dashboard (why you built it) and your favorite OpenObserve feature or insight
4. Tag @OpenObserve and include both #BuiltWithOpenObserve and #DashboardDrop.

⚠️ Make sure your dashboard doesn’t include any private business data or PII.

Judging Criteria

Our team will evaluate entries based on:

• Creativity – visualization and layout
• Utility – practical impact and problem-solving
• Feature Usage – logs, metrics, traces, or alerts
• Storytelling – clarity and inspiration behind your dashboard

Prizes

• 🥇 Grand Prize: $300 Amazon gift card + OpenObserve swag
• 🥈 4 Runners-Up: $150 Amazon gift card each
• Top 5 dashboards featured in an OpenObserve blog post and across our social channels

Timeline

• 📆 Submissions Close - November 21st, 2025
• 🏆 Winners Announced - Week of December 2nd, 2025

Event Bonus

If you’re attending KubeCon Atlanta or QCon San Francisco, stop by the OpenObserve booth (1563) to join in. We’ll be featuring live dashboards, giving out swag, and showcasing real entries from the community.

Join the #DashboardDrop

Every dashboard tells a story. Yours might just inspire the next observability breakthrough.

Start building. Start sharing. Tag us with #BuiltWithOpenObserve and #DashboardDrop. We can’t wait to see what you’ve created.