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promethous vs clickhouse

Engineering

ClickHouse vs Prometheus for High Cardinality, Part 2: Cardinality in ClickHouse

Rory Crispin and Dale McDiarmid · May 15, 2026

clickhouse vs promethous p1

Engineering

ClickHouse vs Prometheus for High Cardinality, Part 1: Understanding the Problem

Rory Crispin and Dale McDiarmid · May 14, 2026

clickstack sql alerting

Engineering

ClickStack SQL Charting and Alerting

Drew Davis and Dale McDiarmid · May 13, 2026

13mistakesblog

Engineering

Getting started with ClickHouse? 13 mistakes and how to avoid them

Dale McDiarmid, Tom Schreiber and Geoff Genz · Feb 20, 2026

how to achieve 170x logs compression 1110

Engineering

Compressing nginx logs 170x with column storage

Lionel Palacin and Dale McDiarmid · Oct 23, 2025

lakehouses o11y

Engineering

Are open-table-formats + lakehouses the future of observability?

Melvyn Peignon and Dale McDiarmid · Oct 16, 2025

instrumenting app

Engineering

Instrumenting your NextJS application with OpenTelemetry and ClickStack

Dale McDiarmid · Sep 4, 2025

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Engineering

LLM observability with ClickStack, OpenTelemetry, and MCP

Dale McDiarmid and Lionel Palacin · Jul 15, 2025

blog loghousep2 2025 final

Engineering

Scaling our Observability platform beyond 100 Petabytes by embracing wide events and replacing OTel

Rory Crispin and Dale McDiarmid · Jun 19, 2025

blog sqlobservatory 202411 v1 0 01

Engineering

The evolution of SQL-based observability

Dale McDiarmid and Ryadh Dahimene · Nov 11, 2024

simple page applications

Engineering

Building single page applications with ClickHouse

Dale McDiarmid · Oct 10, 2024

streaming visuals clickhouse

Engineering

Streaming Real-Time Visualizations with ClickHouse, Apache Arrow and Perspective

Dale McDiarmid · Oct 2, 2024

adding analytics

Engineering

Adding Analytics to an Application in under 10 minutes with ClickHouse Cloud Query Endpoints

Dale McDiarmid · Sep 24, 2024

modeling ml in olap dbs

Engineering

Modeling Machine Learning Data in OLAP databases

Dale McDiarmid · Aug 8, 2024

k means clustering

Engineering

How to Scale K-Means Clustering with just ClickHouse SQL

Dale McDiarmid · Apr 11, 2024