How Yupao Moved 69 TB of Logs a Day Off Alibaba Cloud SLS to Self-Hosted OpenObserve
An observability customer story showcasing how Yupao Technology, operator of the Yupao Zhipin recruitment platform, migrated 69 TB of daily logs from Alibaba Cloud SLS to a self-hosted OpenObserve deployment, cutting logging costs by more than $60,000 a year while unifying log visibility across VPCs.
Key Outcomes
69 TB of raw logs a day
19.6 billion log lines ingested daily by 7 ingesters, with 3 queriers serving more than 100 engineers
8.1:1 compression
364.9 TB of raw logs stored as 44.8 TB on object storage, with indexes at just 3% of raw volume
$60,000+ saved per year
the entire self-hosted stack runs at about $40,000 a year, replacing an SLS bill that had passed $140,000
One query view across every VPC
SLS project silos replaced by a single ingestion entry point and a single OpenObserve cluster
