# How Modal uses ClickHouse to power real-time observability for AI workloads

DevFeed: [How Modal uses ClickHouse to power real-time observability for AI workloads](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-modal-uses-clickhouse-to-power-real-time-observability-for-ai-workloads-5422.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/modal-real-time-observability-ai-workloads>)

Author: ClickHouse

Published: 2025-11-05T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [AI Infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-infrastructure.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/containers.md>), [GPU](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gpu.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>), [ai and ml](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-and-ml.md>)

Tags: [ai-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-infrastructure.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [containers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/containers.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [gpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>)

## AI overview

Modal uses ClickHouse Cloud to provide real-time observability for AI workloads running across thousands of GPUs and containers. A single ClickHouse table ingests 1-2 million events per minute, stores about 500 billion logs, and supports sub-second queries for multiple dashboards.

## Source excerpt

Modal uses ClickHouse Cloud to power real-time observability dashboards for AI workloads running across thousands of GPUs and containers