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The high-cardinality trap: why your observability platform is failing (and what to do about it)
Tired of slow queries & dropped fields? Learn why traditional observability tools fail with high-cardinality data & how a columnar database like ClickHouse solves it.
Aditya Somani • Last updated: Nov 21, 2025
Top 15 infrastructure monitoring tools in 2026: a performance and cost-based comparison
A complete guide to the best infrastructure monitoring tools. We compare 15 top solutions on features, performance, high-cardinality handling, and cost at scale.
Aditya Somani • Last updated: Nov 17, 2025
Best practices for storing OpenTelemetry Collector data
What are the best practices for storing your OTel Collector data?
Last updated: Nov 10, 2025
The definitive guide to ClickHouse query optimization (2026)
Master ClickHouse query optimization through architectural understanding. Learn why ORDER BY design can improve performance 100×, plus proven techniques for trillion-row millisecond queries.
Al Brown, Tom Schreiber, Lionel Palacin • Last updated: Jan 26, 2026
Top 10 OpenTelemetry Compatible Platforms for 2025
Explore the top 10 OpenTelemetry compatible platforms for 2025. Learn how to choose the right backend based on performance, cost at scale, and analytics.
Aditya Somani • Last updated: Nov 6, 2025
MCP and Data Warehouses: everything you need to know
This article explores the suitability of MCP with Data Warehouses, and discusses the business and technical details you need to know to succeed.
Al Brown • Last updated: Nov 29, 2025
What Is a Time-Series Database? Examples, Use Cases & ClickHouse Guide
A time-series database (TSDB) stores and queries data indexed by time, including metrics, events, and logs. Learn real-world examples, common architectures, and when ClickHouse fits time-series workloads.
Last updated: Nov 18, 2025
What is a JSON database?
In this guide, we'll learn about JSON, the types of databases that can store JSON, and how to work with JSON data in ClickHouse.
Last updated: Apr 11, 2025
What is a data application?
In this guide, we'll learn all about data applications - what are they, what are the main components, and why would you want to create one?
Last updated: Apr 11, 2025
Avro vs Parquet
In this guide, we'll learn all about the Apache Avro and Apache Parquet big data formats.
Last updated: Apr 11, 2025
Structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data
In this guide, we explore the three main forms of data: structured data with rigid schemas like database tables, unstructured data like text and images with no predefined format, and semi-structured data like JSON that combines elements of both while maintaining flexibility.
Last updated: Apr 11, 2025
Log monitoring
Discover the fundamentals of log monitoring systems, exploring different log types, monitoring techniques, and modern tools, with practical insights into how organizations leverage solutions like ClickHouse to manage massive log volumes efficiently and cost-effectively.
Last updated: Apr 11, 2025
An intro to OpenTelemetry (OTel)
In this guide, we’ll explore OpenTelemetry (OTel), a framework for collecting and standardizing telemetry data—metrics, logs, and traces—enhancing observability and performance monitoring in modern software systems.
Last updated: Apr 11, 2025
Telemetry data explained
In this guide, we'll explore telemetry data - the vital information that helps us understand, monitor, and improve our software systems through the collection of metrics, logs, and traces.
Last updated: Apr 11, 2025
Observability
In this guide, we'll explore observability - the practice of understanding a system's internal state through its outputs, and how modern approaches are helping organizations gain deeper insights into their systems' behavior.
Last updated: Jun 25, 2025