# How Canva achieved 10x faster search and 70% lower costs with ClickHouse

DevFeed: [How Canva achieved 10x faster search and 70% lower costs with ClickHouse](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-canva-achieved-10x-faster-search-and-70-lower-costs-with-clickhouse-5022.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/canva-faster-search-lower-costs>)

Author: ClickHouse

Published: 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [ClickHouse Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/clickhouse-blog.md>)

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [Traces](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/traces.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tracing.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [OpenTelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opentelemetry.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Compression](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compression.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>)

Tags: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [compression](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compression.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [opentelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentelemetry.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [traces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traces.md>)

## AI overview

Canva uses ClickHouse for real-time observability at massive scale, processing nearly 3 million spans and 3 million logs per second. Redesigning ingestion and storage delivered a 14x compression ratio and reduced infrastructure costs by about 70%, while query and schema optimizations reduced P90 trace search time from 30 seconds to 2.5 seconds.

## Source excerpt

"Moving to ClickHouse, we managed to get 70% cheaper costs and improved our search performance by 10x. We're doing more and storing more with less."