--- title: "How we Built a 19 PiB Logging Platform with ClickHouse and Saved Millions" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-built-a-19-pib-logging-platform-with-clickhouse-and-saved-millions-nb8g98orh source_url: https://clickhouse.com/blog/building-a-logging-platform-with-clickhouse-and-saving-millions-over-datadog type: article source: "Lobsters" published: 2024-04-03T17:37:17.201Z updated: 2024-05-09T08:29:02.242Z tags: ["logging", "observability", "grafana", "clickhouse"] reading_time: 29 upvotes: 5 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How we Built a 19 PiB Logging Platform with ClickHouse and Saved Millions **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 29 min read · 5 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary This post describes how the author built a logging platform with ClickHouse, which saved them millions of dollars compared to using Datadog. They explain the challenges they faced with Datadog and the decisions they made, such as choosing OpenTelemetry and enhancing Grafana. They also provide cost analysis, performance results, and future plans. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#logging](https://daily.dev/tags/logging), [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability), [#grafana](https://daily.dev/tags/grafana), [#clickhouse](https://daily.dev/tags/clickhouse) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-built-a-19-pib-logging-platform-with-clickhouse-and-saved-millions-nb8g98orh)