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ClickHouse offers unmatched speed, scale, and cost-efficiency for observability. This guide provides two paths depending on your needs:

## ClickStack - the ClickHouse observability stack[​](#clickstack "Direct link to ClickStack - the ClickHouse observability stack")

The ClickHouse Observability Stack is our **recommended approach** for most users.

**ClickStack** is a production-grade observability platform built on ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry (OTel), unifying logs, traces, metrics and session in a single high-performance scalable solution that works from single-node deployments to **multi-petabyte** scale.

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## Build-your-own stack[​](#build-your-own-stack "Direct link to Build-your-own stack")

For users with **custom requirements** — such as highly specialized ingestion pipelines, schema designs, or extreme scaling needs — we provide guidance to build a custom observability stack with ClickHouse as the core database.

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| Page Description|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Introduction](/docs/use-cases/observability/introduction) This guide is designed for if you're looking to build your own observability solution using ClickHouse, focusing on logs and traces.|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Schema design](/docs/use-cases/observability/schema-design) Learn why users are recommended to create their own schema for logs and traces, along with some best practices for doing so.|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Managing data](/docs/observability/managing-data) Deployments of ClickHouse for observability invariably involve large datasets, which need to be managed. ClickHouse offers features to assist with data management.|  |  |  |  |  |  | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Integrating OpenTelemetry](/docs/observability/integrating-opentelemetry) Collecting and exporting logs and traces using OpenTelemetry with ClickHouse.|  |  |  |  | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Using Visualization Tools](/docs/observability/grafana) Learn how to use observability visualization tools for ClickHouse, including HyperDX and Grafana.|  |  | | --- | --- | | [Demo Application](/docs/observability/demo-application) Explore the OpenTelemetry demo application forked to work with ClickHouse for logs and traces. | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

- [ClickStack - the ClickHouse observability stack](#clickstack)- [Build-your-own stack](#build-your-own-stack)

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