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OpenObserve

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Observability platform for logs, metrics and traces.

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OpenObserve ships v1.0 GA with AI Observability as its defining new surface

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◆Current state
OpenObserve reached v1.0 GA on September 11, 2026, following a four-week RC series. The 1.0 line ships AI Observability as a first-class product: trace and session evaluations, an eval scheduler, annotation queues and datasets, an AI Playground with execution and scoring, experiment workflows, and an agent/service graph for LLM workload debugging. Beyond AI Observability, 1.0 adds SLOs with burn-rate alerts, composite alerts, an alert library, Database Monitoring, and Synthetic Monitoring fully moved into open source.
◆Where it's heading
OpenObserve is consolidating from a logs/metrics/traces platform into a full-stack observability product that can monitor AI systems alongside traditional infrastructure. The MCP server (moved to OSS in v0.92), ORM read/write split, and storage architecture work signal infrastructure maturity; the AI Observability surface signals where new user acquisition will come from.
◆Prediction
Post-1.0 work will likely focus on hardening the AI Observability evaluation pipeline and expanding the alert library catalog. The Terraform/OpenTofu export for SLOs hints at a GitOps-first configuration story that will develop further.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    OpenObserve v1.0: AI Observability GA, SLOs, Database Monitoring

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    v1.0 GA ships 375 commits spanning AI Observability v1.0, SLOs with burn-rate alerts, composite alerts, an alert library, Database Monitoring, and Synthetic Monitoring in OSS. This is OpenObserve's first production-stable release and the formal launch of its AI workload observability surface.

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  2. 3d ago

    Release v1.0.0-rc5

    RC5 is bug-fix-only: composite alert clone routing, reserved column rejection, and navigation fixes. No new capabilities.

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  3. 3d ago

    Release v1.0.0-rc4

    RC4 is bug-fix-only: SLO form validation, stream stat reads, and dashboard report overlap fixes. Stabilization work ahead of GA.

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  4. 5d ago

    Release v1.0.0-rc3

    RC3 adds step-based billing for Synthetic Monitoring and improves AI observability provider testing and experiment results. Memory leak and UI fixes round out the RC.

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  5. 10d ago

    Release v1.0.0-rc2

    RC2 adds multi-alert support for SQL queries and alert pending periods—both missing from the RC1 feature set and added during the RC cycle. Bulk alert library install also lands here.

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  6. 16d ago

    Release v1.0.0-rc1

    RC1 is a large cut: dashboard query editor redesign, mobile RUM SDK, PromQL performance work, and the MCP server updated to the 2026-07-28 spec with OAuth 2.0. This cut established the 1.0 feature baseline.

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