OpenObserve Down? Real-Time Status & Outage Checker (2026)

OpenObserve (O2) is an open-source cloud-native observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, and front-end monitoring. With 13K+ GitHub stars, OpenObserve uses Parquet and Apache Arrow under the hood, delivering 140x lower storage costs than Elasticsearch. OpenObserve Cloud offers a managed service with a generous free tier. When OpenObserve goes down, log ingestion, metric queries, and trace storage stop — leaving engineering teams blind during incidents.

This page provides real-time OpenObserve status monitoring, historical uptime data, and instant outage alerts.

Current OpenObserve Status

Check live OpenObserve status now: ezmon.com/status/openobserve

Our monitoring probes OpenObserve Cloud infrastructure every 60 seconds from multiple geographic regions:

• OpenObserve Cloud Console — Web UI at cloud.openobserve.ai
• Logs Ingestion API — HTTP bulk ingest endpoint
• Metrics API — Prometheus-compatible remote write
• Traces API — OTLP trace ingestion endpoint
• Query API — SQL-based search and analytics

OpenObserve Live Monitoring Dashboard

SERVICE              STATUS    UPTIME (30d)  LAST CHECK
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
O2 Cloud Console     ✅ UP     99.7%         30s ago
Logs Ingest API      ✅ UP     99.6%         30s ago
Metrics API          ✅ UP     99.7%         30s ago
Traces API (OTLP)    ✅ UP     99.5%         30s ago
Query API            ✅ UP     99.6%         30s ago
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Multi-region checks: US-East, EU-West, AP-Southeast

Status updates every 60 seconds. Subscribe for instant alerts.

How to Check if OpenObserve Is Down

Quick Diagnosis Steps

1. Check ezmon.com — Multi-region probes confirm ingestion vs. query failures
2. Test health endpoint — curl http://localhost:5080/healthz
3. Test logs ingestion — curl -X POST http://localhost:5080/api/default/logs/_json
4. Check OpenObserve status — status.openobserve.ai
5. OpenObserve Community Slack — #help for real-time reports

OpenObserve API Health Checks

# Check health endpoint
curl -s http://localhost:5080/healthz

# Test log ingestion (bulk JSON)
curl -s -X POST http://localhost:5080/api/default/logs/_json \
  -H "Authorization: Basic $(echo -n 'root@example.com:password' | base64)" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[{"level":"info","message":"health check probe","source":"ezmon"}]'

# Test Elasticsearch-compatible bulk ingest
curl -s -X POST "http://localhost:5080/es/_bulk" \
  -H "Authorization: Basic $O2_AUTH" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/x-ndjson" \
  -d '{"index":{"_index":"logs"}}
{"message":"health check","level":"info"}
'

# Test SQL query
curl -s -X POST "http://localhost:5080/api/default/_search" \
  -H "Authorization: Basic $O2_AUTH" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":{"sql":"SELECT * FROM logs ORDER BY _timestamp DESC LIMIT 5","from":0,"size":5}}'

# Check Prometheus metrics
curl -s http://localhost:5080/metrics | grep -E "(zo_ingester|zo_query)"

OpenObserve Python Health Check

import requests
import base64
import time
import os

def check_openobserve_status(base_url="http://localhost:5080"):
    """Check OpenObserve logs/metrics/traces health."""
    email = os.environ.get("O2_EMAIL", "root@example.com")
    password = os.environ.get("O2_PASSWORD", "Complexpass#123")
    token = base64.b64encode(f"{email}:{password}".encode()).decode()
    headers = {
        "Authorization": f"Basic {token}",
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
    }
    
    # Health check
    try:
        resp = requests.get(f"{base_url}/healthz", timeout=5)
        print(f"Health: {resp.status_code} — {resp.text.strip()}")
    except requests.ConnectionError as e:
        print(f"OpenObserve unreachable: {e}")
        return
    
    # Test log ingestion
    try:
        logs = [{"level": "info", "message": "ezmon health probe", "source": "ezmon"}]
        resp = requests.post(
            f"{base_url}/api/default/logs/_json",
            json=logs,
            headers=headers,
            timeout=10
        )
        print(f"Log ingest: {resp.status_code} — {'OK' if resp.ok else resp.text[:100]}")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Log ingest failed: {e}")
    
    # Test SQL query
    time.sleep(1)
    try:
        query = {
            "query": {
                "sql": "SELECT COUNT(*) as cnt FROM logs",
                "from": 0,
                "size": 1
            }
        }
        resp = requests.post(
            f"{base_url}/api/default/_search",
            json=query,
            headers=headers,
            timeout=10
        )
        if resp.ok:
            total = resp.json().get("total", 0)
            print(f"SQL query: OK ({total} log records)")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"SQL query failed: {e}")
    
    print(f"OpenObserve [{base_url}]: HEALTHY")

check_openobserve_status()

Common OpenObserve Issues and Fixes

Ingestion Lag / High Write Latency

# Check ingestion metrics
curl -s http://localhost:5080/metrics | \
  grep -E "zo_ingester_(records|size)_per_second"

# Check WAL (Write-Ahead Log) size
ls -lh /data/openobserve/wal/

# Increase ingestion workers in config
# ZO_INGESTER_WORKERS=4

# Check disk I/O
iostat -x 1 5 | grep -E "(sda|nvme)"

# Check object store flush
curl -s http://localhost:5080/metrics | \
  grep "zo_ingester_wal_files"

Query Timeout / Slow Searches

# Use time-bounded SQL queries
curl -s -X POST "http://localhost:5080/api/default/_search" \
  -H "Authorization: Basic $O2_AUTH" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": {
      "sql": "SELECT * FROM logs WHERE level = '\''error'\'' ORDER BY _timestamp DESC",
      "from": 0,
      "size": 100,
      "start_time": '"$(date -d '1 hour ago' +%s000000)"',
      "end_time": '"$(date +%s000000)"'
    }
  }'

# Check query cache hit rate
curl -s http://localhost:5080/metrics | grep "zo_query_cache"

# Enable query cache
# ZO_RESULT_CACHE_ENABLED=true
# ZO_RESULT_CACHE_MAX_SIZE=1024

S3/GCS Storage Backend Issues

# Check storage config
curl -s http://localhost:5080/api/default/clusters | jq .

# Verify S3 bucket access
aws s3 ls s3://my-openobserve-bucket/

# Check for failed object uploads
curl -s http://localhost:5080/metrics | \
  grep "zo_storage_write_errors_total"

# Self-hosted config (config.yaml or env):
# ZO_S3_BUCKET_NAME=my-openobserve
# ZO_S3_REGION_NAME=us-east-1
# ZO_S3_ACCESS_KEY=AKID...
# ZO_S3_SECRET_KEY=...

OpenObserve Architecture: What Can Go Down

OpenObserve Uptime History

Historical data sourced from ezmon.com OpenObserve monitoring.

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