Observatorium

Spec sheet

Purpose

Observatorium is an open-source system for ingesting, storing, and using observability signals in a multi-tenant Kubernetes environment.Read 11 Oct 2026 · observatorium.io

Intended users

The getting-started guide describes the system for people operating observability in their own environments and notes that the Operator is used in production by larger users.Read 11 Oct 2026 · observatorium.io

Deployment

The project provides Jsonnet configuration and a Kubernetes Operator deployment option.Read 11 Oct 2026 · observatorium.io

Integrations

The documentation describes combining Thanos, Loki, Tempo/Jaeger, and Open Policy Agent in the Observatorium system.Read 5 Oct 2026 · observatorium.io

Support

The project repository directs users to its Slack channel or GitHub issues for questions or missing features.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com

License

The homepage describes Observatorium as open source under the Apache 2.0 license.Read 11 Oct 2026 · observatorium.io

Access control

The API proxy is described as supporting tenant isolation, cross-tenant requests, rate limiting, roles, and tracing, and as intended for all external traffic.Read 5 Oct 2026 · observatorium.io

Architecture

It combines projects including Thanos, Loki, Tempo/Jaeger, and Open Policy Agent under consistent tenancy APIs.Read 11 Oct 2026 · observatorium.io

Authentication

The homepage lists authentication using OIDC/OAuth2.Read 11 Oct 2026 · observatorium.io

Authorization

The homepage lists authorization using Open Policy Agent.Read 11 Oct 2026 · observatorium.io

External traffic

The documentation says the Observatorium API proxy should be used for all external traffic and supports tenancy isolation, rate limiting, roles, and tracing.Read 11 Oct 2026 · observatorium.io

Logs

It supports log ingestion through the Loki Push API and access through Loki query and tail APIs.Read 11 Oct 2026 · observatorium.io

Maintainers

The maintainers page lists contributors affiliated with Red Hat, Polar Signals, or unaffiliated contributors.Read 5 Oct 2026 · observatorium.io

Metrics

It supports Prometheus-compatible remote-write ingestion and query APIs.Read 11 Oct 2026 · observatorium.io

Metrics storage

The architecture page says Thanos Receive replicates each write request three times across availability zones and uploads two-hour data blocks to regional Amazon S3 storage.Read 11 Oct 2026 · observatorium.io

Project status

The repository describes the project as work in progress and says documentation, design, user guides, and configuration support are in progress.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com

Project type

The site describes Observatorium as a meta project that combines existing observability projects behind consistent tenancy APIs and signal correlation.Read 5 Oct 2026 · observatorium.io

Tracing status

The homepage labels traces as “Coming Soon!”.Read 11 Oct 2026 · observatorium.io

Where Specifiction places it

• Kubernetes Monitoring#46 of 546.9