Introducing ClickStack embedded in ClickHouse

Mark Needham

As of ClickHouse 26.2, the ClickStack UI ships directly with ClickHouse — making it easy to explore your own datasets, inspect observability data, and even watch ClickHouse monitor itself, all from localhost.

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This video covers a practical walkthrough of the embedded UI:

• Enabling query and metrics logs via a config file before starting ClickHouse
• Setting up a custom source pointing at the system query log table
• Streaming live data from the Wikimedia recent changes feed into ClickHouse
• Drilling into individual log entries — exceptions, row counts, client info
• Exploring the built-in dashboard for query performance and system resource usage