Charity Majors • 7/9/2026

Have you heard? Clickhouse is winning the observability wars!

This article discusses how Clickhouse is emerging as a leading solution in the observability space, particularly for handling large-scale data (10TB/day and beyond). It highlights the advantages of columnar storage over traditional three-pillar observability tools like Elastic, LGTM, and Datadog, which struggle at scale. The author emphasizes Clickhouse's ability to scale linearly without performance cliffs or schema lock-ins, making it a superior choice for modern observability needs. The piece also critiques how vendors have built and nerfed columnar storage to sell inferior versions.

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