Community Edition
Observability that’s free, forever
The Community Edition is our free, open-core edition: complete observability, 100% on-premise, on your own infrastructure. No limited trial, no credit card — free forever.
Free forever
No credit card. No volume limits. No seat limits.
What’s included, for free
- Full core: OTLP, DataFusion engine, embedded UI
- 1 cluster
- Unlimited telemetry volume & retention (your object storage)
- OpenTelemetry OTLP ingestion (gRPC & HTTP)
- Single multi-role Rust binary
- Unlimited UI seats
- Community support
Why free forever?
Because volume and retention live on your own object storage — your S3, not ours. You never pay to store your telemetry, and we have no infrastructure cost to pass on to you.
Our model is open-core: the Community Edition covers the entire observability core. We only charge for team and scale capabilities — multi-node clusters, RBAC & SSO, federation, the Intelligence brain and support — through the Pro and Enterprise tiers. Your core observability stays free, forever.
Built in France, made for Europe
Observ is designed and engineered in France and deploys 100% on-premise, on your own infrastructure or European hosting. No dependency on US hyperscalers, no data leaving your jurisdiction. Your telemetry stays on your own object storage — European sovereignty is not an option, it is the foundation.
Questions & Answers
Is the Community Edition really free — and really unlimited?
Yes, forever. The Community Edition gives you the full core (OTLP, DataFusion engine, embedded UI) on 1 cluster, deployed on-premise, with unlimited telemetry volume and retention — because they live on your object storage, not ours. Community support, no credit card.
What exactly is a “cluster”?
A cluster is one autonomous Observ deployment: a control-plane / catalog plus the compute pods (ingest, query, compact, llm…) attached to it. One environment — production, staging — is one cluster, no matter how many OTel nodes emit or how many records you store.
Do you ever charge by volume, records or seats?
Never. Volume and retention run on your storage, and UI seats are unlimited everywhere. Billing is decoupled from telemetry by design — that’s the whole promise, and it would be incoherent (and trivially bypassable in self-host) to meter it.
Ready to get started for free?
Download the Community Edition and spin up your first instance in minutes. No credit card, no commitment.