ClickHouse Acquires HyperDX to Accelerate the Future of Open-Source Observability

When Warren and I started HyperDX from our apartments, we had two core beliefs:

1. We wanted to build the best open-source observability platform.

2. ClickHouse was the database to power it.

Looking back, it’s incredible how quickly our team came together to create a best-in-class OpenTelemetry-native experience—seamlessly stitching together session replay, exceptions, logs, infrastructure metrics, and distributed tracing. Our mission has always been to help engineers diagnose and resolve production issues faster, and ClickHouse has been a foundational part of that journey from day one.

Today, we’re thrilled to share that these two ideas are now under one roof: HyperDX is joining forces with ClickHouse to deliver the most performant, cost-effective, and developer-friendly observability platform.

How Did This Acquisition Happen?

While we’ve known about ClickHouse from the very beginning, the reverse took a little longer.

ClickHouse originally explored new observability solutions while transitioning from a legacy vendor to their in-house LogHouse stack—built on ClickHouse to handle their petabyte-scale workloads. Along the way, they discovered HyperDX and saw how easily it could transform an existing ClickHouse deployment into a full observability platform.

From the first setup, it was clear we were a natural fit. The ClickHouse engineering team—from internal observability teams to Alexey, ClickHouse’s creator—saw firsthand how HyperDX could simplify monitoring their global ClickHouse Cloud deployments and dramatically improve their reliability posture.

As we got to know the ClickHouse team—through conversations, meeting at KubeCon, and following up at SF meetups, it became obvious that we shared the same vision:

• Observability should be open source, cost-effective, and developer-friendly.

• ClickHouse’s unmatched performance and scalability make it the best foundation for observability.

• HyperDX’s developer-first experience is the missing piece to make it effortless for teams.

By joining forces, we’re bringing together ClickHouse’s performance and HyperDX’s experience to help engineers spend less time firefighting at 2 a.m. and more time building.

What’s Next?

This acquisition is an acceleration, not a disruption. We’re doubling down on our roadmap and continuing to invest in the community:

• HyperDX Cloud will continue serving and onboarding new customers.

• Our open-source project will remain actively maintained and developed.

• We’re scaling up our roadmap to bring even more powerful observability tools to engineers.

“ClickHouse’s analytics capabilities and open ecosystem make it a powerful technology for observability. However, the end-user experience lacked some of the comprehensive features of more established solutions. HyperDX is very exciting, bringing together an enhanced query experience with a more intuitive UI for exploratory observability workflows.” - Viktor Eriksson, Lovable

Just today, we’re releasing our latest HyperDX v2 beta (opens in a new tab) bringing major enhancements for our beta users. This update introduces highly requested session replay support, along with OpenTelemetry metrics, alerts, saved searches, dashboards, and user management—expanding what’s possible with ClickHouse-native observability.

If you’d like to get started, you can self-host the latest open-source version of HyperDX (opens in a new tab) on top of your existing ClickHouse instance. Alternatively, you can always get started for free on HyperDX Cloud (opens in a new tab).

We’re incredibly excited about what’s ahead and can’t wait to see how this partnership benefits our customers, users, and the open-source community.

To our early adopters, contributors, and customers—thank you for believing in us from the start. And to the engineers, SREs, and observability nerds just joining us—welcome to our next chapter.

For questions, reach out to us at support@hyperdx.io or join our Discord (opens in a new tab). You can also check out ClickHouse’s official announcement (opens in a new tab).