What HyperDX does

HyperDX is an open-source, developer-focused observability platform that unifies session replays, logs, distributed traces, metrics, and error tracking in a single interface. The product is built on ClickHouse with OpenTelemetry-native, agent-free instrumentation, enabling automated correlation between frontend user sessions and backend telemetry, full-text search across terabytes of events in seconds, and automatic clustering of similar log lines. It serves software engineers, DevOps practitioners, and SREs at engineering-led teams who need fast root-cause analysis without the cost overhead or vendor lock-in of traditional observability platforms. The company was founded in 2022 by Warren (Jonhow Lee) and Michael Shi, is backed by Y Combinator, and operates under the legal entity DeploySentinel, Inc.

The business model is product-led growth with a self-serve free tier (3 GB/mo, 14-day Starter trial) and a usage-based Starter plan at $20/month plus $0.40 per additional GB, with no per-seat or per-host fees. Enterprise contracts offer custom retention, SAML SSO, and volume discounts. HyperDX markets itself at 10x cheaper than Datadog and 3x cheaper than New Relic, a positioning enabled by ClickHouse-backed object storage rather than a large sales motion. Distribution is primarily direct-to-developer through documentation, comparison pages, GitHub, Discord, and organic search, with platform integrations into Vercel, Heroku, Fly.io, AWS CloudWatch, Slack, PagerDuty, and Intercom. In March 2025, ClickHouse acquired HyperDX to accelerate its open-source observability roadmap; HyperDX Cloud continues onboarding customers and the open-source project remains maintained. SOC 2 Type II certification supports an emerging upmarket push.

Name

HyperDX

Legal name

DeploySentinel, Inc.

Website

https://hyperdx.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

HyperDX is an open-source, ClickHouse-backed observability platform that unifies session replays, logs, traces, metrics, and errors for engineering teams. It serves software developers and SREs seeking a lower-cost, OpenTelemetry-native alternative to Datadog and New Relic.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Observability and Monitoring Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Event Streaming & Pub/Sub Platforms (HDAEAIAD)

Keywords

• Open source observability
• Log management platform
• Distributed tracing software
• Session replay analytics
• Application performance monitoring

Headquarters

HQ city

San Mateo

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Cloud Subscription (Usage-based): Usage-based pricing where customers pay per GB of data ingested. No per-seat or per-host charges. Additional charges for metrics at $0.40 per 100 DPM (data points per minute). Revenue scales with customer usage.
2. Enterprise Contracts: Custom contracts available for enterprise customers with custom retention, SAML SSO, and volume discounts. Custom pricing negotiated based on customer needs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

HyperDX is an open-source observability platform that unifies session replays, logs, traces, metrics, and errors in a single interface. Built on ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry, it enables engineering teams to correlate frontend user sessions with backend telemetry and resolve production incidents faster, with usage-based pricing at $0.40 per GB.

Product overview

HyperDX is an open-source observability platform offering unified session replays, logs, traces, metrics, and error tracking without vendor lock-in. The core HyperDX Cloud product provides a unified interface for correlating frontend sessions with backend telemetry, powered by ClickHouse for blazing-fast search performance. HyperDX v2 is the ClickHouse-native observability layer (available as open source and self-hosted) that transforms existing ClickHouse deployments into full observability platforms, featuring materialized views, schema-agnostic querying, and event delta analysis. A Live Sandbox enables browser-based exploration, and Local Mode supports fully self-hosted deployments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• HyperDX Cloud Cloud-hosted observability SaaS platform that combines session replays, logs, traces, metrics, and errors into a single interface, providing correlated end-to-end tracing from browser to backend servers and blazing fast search powered by ClickHouse. Targeted at engineering and DevOps teams.
• HyperDX v2 (Open Source) Open-source observability layer for ClickHouse that provides fast search and visualizations for logs, metrics, traces, and session replays. Supports Bring Your Own ClickHouse (BYOC) deployment and transforms existing ClickHouse clusters into full observability platforms.
• HyperDX Live Sandbox Browser-based demo environment that allows prospective users to explore HyperDX capabilities interactively without installing any software. No credit card required.
• HyperDX Local Mode Self-hosted deployment option that allows teams to run HyperDX locally on their own infrastructure for full data control.

Quantifiable outcome

• 10x cheaper than Datadog
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

Feature13 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ClickHouseflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 March 2025ClickHouse acquired HyperDX in March 2025 to accelerate the future of open-source observability. The acquisition combines ClickHouse's performance and scalability with HyperDX's developer-first experience. HyperDX Cloud continues serving and onboarding new customers, and the open-source project remains actively maintained. The integration brings HyperDX's enhanced query experience and intuitive UI to ClickHouse's observability stack (ClickStack).

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Datadog: The dominant commercial observability platform covering logs, traces, metrics, and increasingly session replay/RUM. HyperDX explicitly benchmarks its pricing against Datadog ('10x cheaper') and positions as the unified, OTel-native alternative.
• Grafana Labs: Open-source observability stack (Grafana + Loki + Tempo + Mimir + Pyroscope). The most direct open-source alternative to HyperDX, particularly for teams that prefer to self-host with a database-agnostic stack.
• Honeycomb: Observability platform focused on high-cardinality event data and incident debugging. Targets the same engineering/SRE persona as HyperDX, with comparable narrative around correlating traces and events during incident response.
• New Relic: Long-standing unified observability platform that HyperDX directly compares itself against ('3x cheaper than New Relic'). Competes head-to-head on combining logs, traces, metrics, and APM in a single UI.
• Logz.io: Cloud-native observability platform offering logs, metrics, and tracing built on open-source tooling. Closely comparable to HyperDX on positioning (open-source roots, unified platform, modern UI) and target buyer (engineering-led mid-market).
• SigNoz: Open-source APM and observability platform built natively on OpenTelemetry. Closest direct open-source competitor to HyperDX, with a similar PLG and self-host narrative targeting cost-sensitive engineering teams.

Broad incumbents

• Splunk (Cisco): Enterprise-grade observability and log analytics platform now under Cisco. Competes with HyperDX primarily in large enterprise accounts where Splunk's compliance, security, and analytics footprint is entrenched.
• Elastic: Provider of the ELK stack plus broader enterprise search and observability offerings. A broad incumbent that overlaps with HyperDX on log search and APM, typically serving larger enterprises than HyperDX targets.
• Dynatrace: Enterprise observability and APM platform with strong automated root-cause analysis. Competes for the same observability budget but typically in larger accounts with deeper automation requirements than HyperDX serves.

Emerging players

• Better Stack: Newer observability and incident management platform combining logs, infrastructure monitoring, on-call, and status pages. Targets the same developer-led SMB/mid-market segment as HyperDX with a similar PLG approach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/hyperdxio
• GitHubgithub.com/hyperdxio

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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