Observe review
A usage-based platform covering logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and AI investigation.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Observe is a fully managed observability platform for engineering, SRE, and DevOps teams. It brings together logs, metrics, traces, and infrastructure data, with tools for searching, filtering, transformation, dashboards, alerts, distributed trace exploration, and live troubleshooting. OpenTelemetry, cloud integrations, Kubernetes, and other collection paths support telemetry intake, while AI-assisted incident investigation adds another way to examine operational issues. Teams looking to monitor multiple telemetry types in a single SaaS platform will find a broad feature set here.
Pricing is usage-based, with separate published starting prices for each telemetry type. The Logs plan starts at $0.49 per GiB and includes compute, unlimited users, and 30-day retention. Metrics starts at $0.008 per DPM, also with compute included and unlimited users, and lists 13-month retention. Traces starts at $0.59 per GiB with compute included, unlimited users, and 30-day retention. This structure lets teams relate costs to the telemetry they ingest, but organizations monitoring all three types will need to account for three separate usage rates. There is no free plan.
Observe fits environments built around OpenTelemetry, AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, FluentD, or FluentBit, and its log-derived custom metrics can connect log analysis with metric monitoring. Query Builder and OPAL support data transformation, while Live Mode is aimed at real-time troubleshooting. The platform is a strong match for usage-based teams that want broad telemetry coverage and investigation features in a web-based service. Teams requiring a free tier, non-web platform coverage, or longer listed retention for logs and traces should consider alternatives that prioritize those needs.
Observe pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Covers logs, metrics, traces, and infrastructure in one platform
- Includes OpenTelemetry, AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, FluentD, and FluentBit
- Adds live troubleshooting, contextual alerts, and AI-assisted investigation
- Where it doesn't
- No free plan is available
- Access is limited to the web platform
- Logs and traces list 30-day retention, versus 13 months for metrics
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