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Highlight vs Keboola
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Highlight and Keboola — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Highlight vs Keboola: at a glance
What is Highlight?
Highlight grew from session replay into SQL-driven observability, then went quiet in August 2025.
Highlight is an open-source observability stack covering session replay, errors, logs, traces and metrics. Its last tagged self-hosted release, docker-v0.5.6, shipped in August 2025 with session-replay performance fixes and session restarts. Nothing has been tagged since.
What is Keboola?
Keboola sets February 4, 2027 to stop sending Storage API tokens by email.
Keboola is a data-operations platform whose recent releases orbit Kai, its AI assistant, GA for multi-tenant contracted customers since September and now backed by admin-approved shared team memory. The latest entry is a security deprecation: sending Storage API tokens by email ends on February 4, 2027. Before that, Keboola migrated Legacy Flows to Conditional Flows and made faster, pre-built-image app starts the default.
Highlight vs Keboola: editorial side-by-side
Highlight
0.0ANALYTICS
Highlight grew from session replay into SQL-driven observability, then went quiet in August 2025.
◆ Current state
Highlight is an open-source observability stack covering session replay, errors, logs, traces and metrics. Its last tagged self-hosted release, docker-v0.5.6, shipped in August 2025 with session-replay performance fixes and session restarts. Nothing has been tagged since.
◆ Where it's heading
Through 2025 the releases added OpenTelemetry metrics ingest, a SQL editor and builder for graphs, SQL alerts and dashboards created from log and trace views. That pushed Highlight from a replay tool toward a general telemetry platform. The cadence then slowed from roughly monthly to a two-month gap before stopping.
◆ Prediction
The entries show no release in more than a year, so the self-hosted line's future is unclear. Any new tag would most likely be maintenance on session replay and OTel ingestion.
Keboola
5.0ANALYTICS
Keboola sets February 4, 2027 to stop sending Storage API tokens by email.
◆ Current state
Keboola is a data-operations platform whose recent releases orbit Kai, its AI assistant, GA for multi-tenant contracted customers since September and now backed by admin-approved shared team memory. The latest entry is a security deprecation: sending Storage API tokens by email ends on February 4, 2027. Before that, Keboola migrated Legacy Flows to Conditional Flows and made faster, pre-built-image app starts the default.
◆ Where it's heading
The pattern is consolidation and tightening: one orchestration model, one-login MCP access across projects, org-wide agent memory behind an admin gate, and now removal of an insecure way to hand out credentials. Each step leaves fewer forks and loose ends for users and for Kai.
◆ Prediction
Expect more security clean-up of legacy paths and more admin controls around Kai as shared memory rolls out. The entries don't say what replaces email delivery of tokens.
Alternatives to Highlight and Keboola
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Highlight or Keboola.
Holistics
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ThingsBoard
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Lightdash
Lightdash opens AI-built chart types to every cloud user, through the app or MCP.
Hex
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OpenPanel
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Recent activity from Highlight and Keboola
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 5d agoKeboolaSending API Tokens via Email Will Be Removed on February 4, 2027
- 13d agoKeboolaFaster App Starts by Default
- 18d agoKeboolaKai remembers what matters: shared team memory
- 20d agoKeboolaAutomatic Migration of Legacy Flows to Conditional Flows
- 25d agoKeboolaData apps wake up 4x faster, default from Oct 15
- 27d agoKeboolaScheduled Partial Maintenance of all Azure stacks – October 10, 2026
- 1y agoHighlightdocker-v0.5.6: session replay performance and session restarts
- 1y agoHighlightdocker-v0.5.5: SQL alerts, log downloads, video in replays
- 1y agoHighlightdocker-v0.5.4: SQL joins and graphed error metrics
- 1y agoHighlightdocker-v0.5.3: dashboards and alerts from logs and traces
- 1y agoHighlightdocker-v0.5.2: OTel metrics in the web SDK
- 1y agoHighlightdocker-v0.5.1: SQL editor for graphs and OTel metrics export ⚡
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Highlight and Keboola?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Keboola is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Highlight better than Keboola?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Keboola is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Highlight?
Top Highlight alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Highlight alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/highlight for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Keboola?
Top Keboola alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Keboola alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/keboola for the full list with editorial commentary on each.