https://www.joshuamlee.com/tags/clickhouse/ Recent content in ClickHouse on Josh Lee Creates Hugo en Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.joshuamlee.com/otel-clickhouse-homelab-monitoring/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.joshuamlee.com/otel-clickhouse-homelab-monitoring/ <p>Monitoring a homelab shouldn&rsquo;t require a PhD in observability pipelines. Yet somehow, we all end up with a rat&rsquo;s nest of exporters, agents, and databases that barely talk to each other. After years of fighting this complexity, I&rsquo;ve landed on the OpenTelemetry Collector as the single tool that ties everything together.</p> <p><a href="https://altinity.com/blog/deploying-single-node-clickhouse-on-small-servers" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ClickHouse</a> is the other piece of the puzzle here. I&rsquo;m definitely biased since I work with ClickHouse daily at my job, but if you look under the hood of just about any modern observability platform from the last few years, you&rsquo;ll probably find a little ClickHouse in there. For me, it provides a unified platform that can store all of my telemetry signals alongside other types of events - a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGBQU9sykL0" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one-stop shop</a> for &ldquo;real-time&rdquo; analytics.</p>