User stories
Discover how companies are using ClickHouse to speed up their workloads and lower costs.
Observability
Scaling observability at Character.AI: thousands of GPUs, 10x logs, and 50% lower cost with ClickStack
"Previously, querying the last 10 minutes would take 1–2 minutes. With ClickStack, it was just a case of how fast I could blink. The performance is real. When you're digging into logs during an incident, every second matters."
Mustafa Yildirim, SRE at Character.AI
Observability
How Tesla built a quadrillion-row-scale observability platform on ClickHouse
“Data in ClickHouse is better than data anywhere else. No other system lets you slice and dice your data, ask interesting questions, and get answers in an acceptable amount of time. There’s nothing out there that competes with ClickHouse.”
Alon Tal, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Tesla
Observability
How Anthropic is using ClickHouse to scale observability for the AI era
"ClickHouse played an instrumental role in helping us develop and ship Claude 4. With ClickHouse, the database is green, queries are lightning-fast, and money is not on fire. ClickHouse has already delivered significant value in helping us create state-of-the-art language models."
Observability
Why OpenAI chose ClickHouse for petabyte-scale observability
“A lot of our peer companies are using ClickHouse for this exact use case (observability). It’s battle-tested and just the right tool for the job.”
Akshay Nanavati, Engineering Manager
Observability
How Mercado Libre rebuilt its observability platform on ClickHouse Cloud with 50x faster trace queries
“The cost of slow observability isn’t only infrastructure, it’s the customer experience.” — Daniel Da Rosa, Technical Leader of Observability, Mercado Libre
Observability
How Trigger.dev is using ClickHouse to scale observability for long-running AI workflows
“ClickHouse gives us the performance and visibility we need while staying fast, scalable, and familiar for our team.”
Eric Allam, Co-Founder and CTO
Observability
Clever ingests 200x more logs at the same cost with ClickHouse Cloud
"With ClickHouse, we see a compression ratio of 10x... These logs are easily accessible to all engineers; they don't have to think about whether to go to Grafana, Athena, Datadog, or whatnot. And all of this came at a 0% increase in cost."
Jake Gutierrez, Sr Software Engineer, Clever
Observability
How the D. E. Shaw group powers high-cardinality observability at scale with ClickHouse
“We found ClickHouse to be a superior tool for enabling a top-level view and detailed low-level analysis of our high-cardinality time-series metrics data. I think teams seeking high-performance observability platforms should certainly consider it as a candidate solution.”
Mike Vasiliou, Site Reliability Engineer
Observability
Trio
“In terms of speed, ClickHouse is truly undisputed. It’s a generational leap compared to what we had, even with minimal tuning.” Filipe Coelho, Data Specialist
Observability
Goodbye limitations, hello data: How Qonto is rethinking observability with ClickHouse Cloud
As an observability guy, cardinality was a scary word for us. Now it’s something I actively root for. Javier Ortiz, Tech Lead for SRE Observability - Qonto
Real-time analytics, Observability
How Respan is scaling LLM observability with ClickHouse Cloud
"Since moving to ClickHouse, we can now easily handle the scale that we couldn’t before." Raymond Huang, Co-Founder and CTO
Observability
How LY Corporation uses ClickHouse to observe one of the largest Kafka deployments on earth
“ClickHouse plays a really important role in our automated monitoring efforts. We’re handling a massive amount of data—about seven million rows per second—but with just 24 servers, we’ve achieved outstanding cost performance.” - Haruki Okada, Senior Software Engineer
Observability
How Langfuse is scaling LLM observability for the agentic era with ClickHouse Cloud
“We’re building observability for engineering teams working on the most complex and advanced agentic systems. ClickHouse has served us really, really well.”
Max Deichmann, Co-Founder and CTO
Observability
Lovable <3 ClickHouse: AI-powered observability and analytics at the world’s fastest-growing software company
“At Lovable, we're making it possible for anyone to build software. ClickHouse makes it possible for anyone—human or AI—to understand and analyze that software at scale.”
Tomas Nordström, Member of Technical Staff
Observability
How Modal uses ClickHouse to power real-time observability for AI workloads
“At Modal, we try to keep things operationally simple. We want to be able to move fast, but we also care a lot about reliability. ClickHouse lets us do that.”
Ro Arepally, Engineer
Observability
How Netflix optimized its petabyte-scale logging system with ClickHouse
“To make our logging system work, we had to make a lot of choices. The key is how you simplify things in order to do the least amount of work.”
Daniel Muino, Software Engineer
Observability
Sierra
“We don’t fear cardinality anymore. We don’t have the technical constraints we had earlier. ClickHouse lets us run really, really fast queries at scale.” Arup Malakar, Software Engineer, Sierra
Observability
How Cloud CIRCUS used ClickHouse to speed up and simplify log analytics
“By migrating from Athena to ClickHouse, we’ve been able to save both time and costs. Most importantly, we no longer have to worry about expenses every time we run a query, which is a huge relief.”
Kyurin Shu, infrastructure engineer
Observability, Real-time analytics
How Wallarm’s API security platform relies on ClickHouse Cloud to detect and block attacks
“We need our platform to operate in real time. The moment we detect suspicious activity, we aim to block the API user before they can attack the site or exploit a vulnerability.”
- Slava Yudanov, VP of Engineering, Wallarm
Observability
Last9 + ClickHouse: Delivering Seamless Observability, Minus the Chaos
"We don’t want to manage infrastructure or build our own data warehouse. For us, that’s where ClickHouse comes in. It’s an integral part of our solution today." Aditya Godbole, CTO
Observability
Observing in style: How Poizon rebuilt its data platform with ClickHouse Enterprise Edition
"With ClickHouse Enterprise Edition, we’ve turned our biggest data challenges into opportunities—achieving write speeds of up to 20 million rows per second and reducing infrastructure costs by 60%."
Poizon
Observability
How Harvey uses ClickHouse for proactive threat detection
"On our security team, we like to say that if we do our jobs well, we let the brilliant people at Harvey do their jobs, and we all get to drink Mai Tais on the beach. ClickHouse helps us do just that."
Mike Parowski, Detection & Response
Observability
How SolarWinds uses ClickHouse BYOC for real-time observability at scale
"Processing 300 million messages per second, Solarwinds delivers real-time observability for 300K+ customers. With ClickHouse, they’ve cut query times by 60%, optimized memory usage, and built a faster, more reliable platform for IT professionals."
Tony Burke, SolarWinds
Observability
IBM Instana’s solution for monitoring ClickHouse performance
"ClickHouse supports OpenTelemetry, which is awesome for tracing performance. It lets us dive into ClickHouse and not only capture flows through our distributed systems, but also track how those calls are executed within ClickHouse, giving us clear visibility."
Joshua Hildred, Software Developer, IBM Instana
Observability
Building Chronicle: How Temporal supercharged their observability with ClickHouse
“As Charity Majors says, ‘Observability isn’t just about understanding bugs and outages; it’s about proactively understanding our software and how users are experiencing it.’ We’re able to do that through the raw data we collect and query efficiently thanks to ClickHouse.”
Sean Gillespie, Staff Software Engineer
Observability, Real-time analytics
Corsearch replaces MySQL with ClickHouse for content and brand protection
“The system manages to store over 10 billion rows spanning four years in less than 325 GB on disk”
Observability
Scaling Graphite with ClickHouse
“The query performance was just blazing fast. I couldn't believe it. I had to go back a couple of times just to make sure I was querying it properly.”
Observability
Tekion slashed their storage needs from 27TB to just 2.5TB in two months.
“ClickHouse has proved to be a game-changer, propelling us towards greater efficiency and effectiveness in managing our data infrastructure.”
Observability
ClickHouse has become the backbone for all of our data applications
“Adopting ClickHouse has enhanced our data analytics capabilities, supporting the growing demands of our internal teams efficiently and cost-effectively.”
Observability
Building a 50PB logging solution with ClickHouse
Trip.com migrated from Elasticsearch and built a 50PB logging solution with ClickHouse. Storage space savings exceeded 50%, enabling the existing Elasticsearch servers to support a 4x increase in data volume with ClickHouse. Query speed is 4 to 30 times faster than ElasticSearch, with a P90 of less than 300 ms and a P99 of less than 1.5s.
Observability, Real-time analytics
Event-driven workflow orchestration powered by ClickHouse
“We want to be able to handle a wide variety of different data pipelines and code tasks. Ultimately, the goal is to enable whatever deployment and trigger patterns developers, data engineers, platform engineers, and software engineers need,” and this is why ClickHouse has become integral to Prefect
Observability
Imagine playing your favorite online game with almost no lag
“The benefits were immediate, with faster data processing and accurate analytics that allowed me to make strategic decisions with confidence. ClickHouse opened new horizons for the growth and success of my company, raising our executive vision to levels never reached before.”
Observability
Sony LIV ingests tens of millions of video streaming events
“At Sony LIV, we ingest tens of millions of video streaming events into ClickHouse Cloud and run queries to generate complex dashboards for analysis. This allows our operations team to monitor, alert & troubleshoot the QOS and QOE of our customers in real-time. ClickHouse Cloud has helped us to optimize costs and ensure the high availability and resilience of our services.”
Observability
Reducing cost by migrating from ElasticSearch to ClickHouse
“Migrating logs from Elasticsearch to ClickHouse has not only significantly reduced storage costs but also provided us with a faster querying experience.”
Observability
How ClickHouse impacted Vimeo
“In the post-evaluation of each database against our criteria (with metrics ranging from query performance to cost), ClickHouse emerged as the unrivalled frontrunner. It excelled across the board, even astonishingly so in certain domains, and proved more cost-efficient.”