Dozzle vs OpenObserve
Dozzle and OpenObserve are both log management software. Dozzle is open source under MIT, with 15k GitHub stars. OpenObserve is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 23k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Dozzle when
- You run containers on a few hosts and want to watch logs in a browser without a logging stack.
- Pick OpenObserve when
- You want a cheaper self-hosted alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk or Datadog for logs and traces.
Side by side
A lightweight web UI that streams live logs from Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes containers, with search and multi-host support.
An observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, real user monitoring and session replay, storing data on object storage in a single binary.
It does not store logs, so history is limited to what Docker keeps.
AGPL license, and SSO and some enterprise features require a paid license.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Go, Vue and TypeScript
Rust, TypeScript and Vue
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
15k GitHub stars
23k GitHub stars
Established: started 8 years ago, latest release v11.4.0.
Established: started 3 years ago, latest release v1.1.2.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.