# How Mercado Libre rebuilt its observability platform on ClickHouse Cloud with 50x faster trace queries

DevFeed: [How Mercado Libre rebuilt its observability platform on ClickHouse Cloud with 50x faster trace queries](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-mercado-libre-rebuilt-its-observability-platform-on-clickhouse-cloud-with-50x-faster-trace-queries-5413.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/mercado-libre-observability-on-clickhouse-cloud>)

Author: ClickHouse Team

Published: 2026-08-04T19:10:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [ai observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-observability.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [compression](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compression.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>), [traces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traces.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tracing.md>)

## AI overview

Mercado Libre rebuilt its observability platform on ClickHouse Cloud to investigate business-flow failures through high-cardinality telemetry and tracing. The article reports trace queries improving by 50x, up to 89% compression, and ingestion scaling to 400 million spans per minute.

## Source excerpt

How Mercado Libre rebuilt its observability platform on ClickHouse Cloud, cutting trace query times from over five minutes to about four seconds (a 50x speedup) with up to 89% compression while ingesting 400 million spans per minute.