How Anthropic Uses ClickHouse for Observability at Scale

Mark Needham

Discover how Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI models, solved its massive observability challenges using ClickHouse!

When Claude 3 and Claude 3.5 launched, explosive user adoption completely overwhelmed Anthropic's observability systems. Their database was struggling, queries were timing out, and costs were skyrocketing. They needed a solution that could handle huge data volumes in real-time while enabling fast, interactive analytics.

In this video, we dive into Maruth Goyal's fascinating talk from the ClickHouse Open House conference, exploring:

How Claude's explosive growth broke their observability infrastructure Why they chose ClickHouse as their database solution How they're using ClickHouse for Claude 4 development Their future plans for agentic analytics with natural language queries

The best part? Their engineers sometimes don't even notice the database is running anymore – that's the mark of a truly robust system!

Blog post - https://clickhouse.com/blog/how-anthropic-is-using-clickhouse-to-scale-observability-for-ai-era