clickhouse-operator VS signoz

but this pricing looks excessive.

A single node instance with a fast disk is more than sufficient for most needs: https://hub.docker.com/r/clickhouse/clickhouse-server

If you need a cluster, https://github.com/Altinity/clickhouse-operator makes things easy

Altinity is doing a good job of this with Clickhouse. They offer some decent open source guides for self hosting[0] and offer a hosted option. The hosted option is as self serve as I'd like (you have to get "approved").

0 - https://github.com/Altinity/clickhouse-operator and

Where is the clickhouse data stored, in the Docker container?

For reference, here's what I'm using: https://github.com/Altinity/clickhouse-operator/blob/master/...

ClickHouse works great on Kubernetes. Check out the ClickHouse Operator for Kubernetes. [0] We just added a UI to it, blog article out shortly.

[0] https://github.com/Altinity/clickhouse-operator

Disclaimer: I work at Altinity.

Don't use helm. The ClickHouse Kubernetes Operator is the way to go. Here's the project: https://github.com/Altinity/clickhouse-operator

This is generally true for most databases these days. Use an operator if it's available. Helm can't handle the dynamic management required to run databases properly.

You should also check out SigNoz [1], we are an open-core alternative to DataDog - based natively on OpenTelemetry. We also have a cloud product if you don't want to host yourself

[1] https://signoz.io

You might want to have a look at SigNoz [1] as well. We have also published some perf benchmark wrt Elastic & Loki [2] and have some cool features like logs pipeline for manipulating logs before ingestion

[1] https://github.com/signoz/signoz

Check Signoz's repo on GitHub

SigNoz maintainer here.

We also have traces, metrics and logs in a single application which makes correlation across them much easier. From what I can understand from Quickwit website, they use Grafana and Jaeger for UI.

Here'e our github repo if you want to check it out. https://github.com/signoz/signoz

Using user's private with no opt-out option is unethical.

If anyone is looking self-hosted for alternatives then they should try SigNoz: https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz

SigNoz is a great New Relic alternative that is open-source and provides three signals in a single pane of glass. You can monitor logs, metrics, and traces and correlate signals for better insights into application performance.

If anyone wants to check the project, here's our github repo - https://github.com/signoz/signoz

You need a backend to which you can send the collected data for monitoring and visualization. SigNoz is an OpenTelemetry-native APM that is well-suited for visualizing OpenTelemetry data.

Once the data is collected, it needs to be sent to a backend. That’s where SigNoz comes into the picture. SigNoz is an open-source OpenTelemetry-native APM that provides logs, metrics and traces under a single pane of glass.