greptimedb

The open-source observability database. One columnar engine for metrics, logs, and traces, on object storage.

⭐ 6,659 stars on GitHub · 🍴 540 forks · 📜 License: apache-2.0 · 💻 Language: Rust

What is greptimedb?

Managing separate databases for metrics, logs, and traces creates massive operational overhead and painful data silos. Unifying all three observability pillars into a single Rust-based columnar engine on object storage lets you correlate signals natively using standard SQL

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ ai-agents
• 🏷️ cloud-native
• 🏷️ distributed-database
• 🏷️ greptimedb
• 🏷️ high-cardinality
• 🏷️ logs
• 🏷️ metrics
• 🏷️ object-storage
• 🏷️ observability
• 🏷️ observability-database

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Quick install

See the README for detailed install instructions. Most projects support Docker — if the repo has a Dockerfile, use:

git clone https://github.com/GreptimeTeam/greptimedb.git
cd greptimedb
docker build -t greptimedb .
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 greptimedb

Minimum system requirements

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: GreptimeTeam/greptimedb
• 🌐 Homepage: https://greptime.com/product/db
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 10/09/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.