openobserve v0.1.0

Observability

OpenObserve — a single-binary observability platform for logs, metrics and traces, with a built-in UI and dashboards. A lightweight Elasticsearch/Datadog alternative. Deployed as a single host-networked Nomad service.

nomad-pack run openobserve --registry nomploy

…or one line (add registry + run)

curl -fsSL https://packs.nomploy.com/install.sh | sh -s -- openobserve

Needs nomad-pack on PATH. The script only adds the nomploy registry and runs this pack.

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1 task http 5080 1 volume image public.ecr.aws/zinclabs/openobserve:latest tracks :latest image bumped today

Variables 10

values.hcl

Save as values.hcl, edit, then run:

nomad-pack run openobserve -f values.hcl --registry nomploy

# The name of the Nomad job.
job_name = "openobserve"

# The Nomad namespace to deploy into.
namespace = "default"

# The datacenters to deploy to.
datacenters = ["*"]

# The OpenObserve container image. Pin a tag in production.
image = "public.ecr.aws/zinclabs/openobserve:latest"

# Host port for the OpenObserve web UI.
port = 5080

# Named volume mounted at /data (the local metadata + object store).
data_volume = "openobserve_data"

# Initial admin email (ZO_ROOT_USER_EMAIL). Used to log in the first time.
root_user_email = "root@example.com"

# Initial admin password (ZO_ROOT_USER_PASSWORD). CHANGE THIS.
root_user_password = "change-me-a-strong-password"

# Placement constraints. On a nomploy cluster: attribute = "$${meta.nomploy_control_plane}", operator = "=", value = "true".
constraints = []

# The task resources.
resources = {
    cpu    = 300
    memory = 256
  }

Name	Type	Default	Description
job_name	string	"openobserve"	The name of the Nomad job.
namespace	string	"default"	The Nomad namespace to deploy into.
datacenters	list	["*"]	The datacenters to deploy to.
image	string	"public.ecr.aws/zinclabs/openobserve:latest"	The OpenObserve container image. Pin a tag in production.
port	number	5080	Host port for the OpenObserve web UI.
data_volume	string	"openobserve_data"	Named volume mounted at /data (the local metadata + object store).
root_user_email set me	string	"root@example.com"	Initial admin email (ZO_ROOT_USER_EMAIL). Used to log in the first time.
root_user_password set me	string	"change-me-a-strong-password"	Initial admin password (ZO_ROOT_USER_PASSWORD). CHANGE THIS.
constraints	list	[]	Placement constraints. On a nomploy cluster: attribute = "$${meta.nomploy_control_plane}", operator = "=", value = "true".
resources	object	{ cpu = 300 memory = 256 }	The task resources.

Back up this pack

This pack stores data in one Docker named volume: openobserve_data

restic

# Run on the node hosting this pack. Point restic at your repo first:
#   export RESTIC_REPOSITORY="s3:https://<account>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/<bucket>"
#   export RESTIC_PASSWORD="<repo-password>"
#   export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<key>  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<secret>
restic backup \
  /var/lib/docker/volumes/openobserve_data/_data

rclone (sync to S3/R2)

rclone sync /var/lib/docker/volumes/openobserve_data/_data backup:<bucket>/openobserve_data

Paths assume the default Docker volume location (/var/lib/docker/volumes). Restore by stopping the job, restoring files into the same volume, and re-running the pack.

Readme

openobserve

OpenObserve — a single-binary observability platform for logs, metrics and traces, with a built-in web UI, dashboards, alerts and a SQL/query language. It's OpenTelemetry-native and Elasticsearch API-compatible, so you can point existing agents (OTel Collector, Fluent Bit, Vector, Promtail) at it. A lightweight, storage-efficient alternative to an ELK stack or Datadog.

Single host-networked Nomad service with a persistent data volume (local disk store; S3 can be configured later).

Deploy

nomad-pack registry add nomploy https://github.com/Nomploy/nomad-packs
nomad-pack run openobserve --registry=nomploy

Configure

Variable	Default	Description
`port`	`5080`	Web UI / ingestion port (`ZO_HTTP_PORT`).
`root_user_email`	`root@example.com`	Initial admin email (`ZO_ROOT_USER_EMAIL`).
`root_user_password`	`change-me-…`	Change this. Initial admin password (`ZO_ROOT_USER_PASSWORD`).
`image`	`public.ecr.aws/zinclabs/openobserve:latest`	Container image. Pin a tag in production.
`data_volume`	`openobserve_data`	`/data` — metadata and the local object store.
`resources`	`{ cpu = 300, memory = 256 }`	Task resources. Bump for heavy ingestion.

Log in with the root email/password, then create ingestion tokens under Data Sources. To offload storage to S3/MinIO, add the ZO_S3_* env vars to the task. Pin the job to the node holding the volume with constraints.