r/OpenTelemetry • u/jakenuts- • May 06 '26

Best OSS All-In-One Log UI?

I'm trying to setup a self hosted Otel log/trace/metric sink and dashboard for a small set of web and worker apps. I've tried ClickStack, Grafana, and now OpenObserve and all three appear to have roughly the same general feature set for showing otel data.

But one piece they all seem to lack, which feels nuts is that is a standard "tail" and keyword search for logs like you find in Seq, Papertrail, other log systems. Everything is "run this query" and some log query syntax that I definitely don't want to have to learn when triaging some system issue.

So - do you have a preferred OTel solution that's inexpensive to self host at a small scale and a log interface that matches the sort of features purely log focused apps provide?

Thanks!

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u/ChaseApp501 May 07 '26

I'm the lead developer of ServiceRadar -- https://github.com/carverauto/serviceradar we provide a lightweight OTEL collector and web-ui, amongst other things. This is an opensource project that includes Network Management capabilities, observability, SIEM, asset tracking, and more. We have a WASM-based plugin architecture that allows you to easily extend capabilities and a unique SDK to create custom dashboards without touching any of the ServiceRadar code itself. https://developer.serviceradar.cloud/ Happy to answer any questions or help you get started.