# How SolarWinds uses ClickHouse BYOC for real-time observability at scale

DevFeed: [How SolarWinds uses ClickHouse BYOC for real-time observability at scale](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-solarwinds-uses-clickhouse-byoc-for-real-time-observability-at-scale-5297.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/how-solarwinds-uses-clickhouse-for-realtime-observability-at-scale>)

Author: Tony Burke, SolarWinds

Published: 2025-03-11T16:03:36Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>), [solarwinds](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/solarwinds.md>), [Platform Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/platform-engineering.md>)

Tags: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [clusters](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clusters.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [efficiency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/efficiency.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [solarwinds](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/solarwinds.md>), [speed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speed.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>)

## AI overview

SolarWinds uses ClickHouse to process millions of telemetry messages per second for real-time observability, dashboards, alerts, and troubleshooting. The article describes how its platform engineering team tuned ClickHouse and optimized time-sensitive queries to scale while maintaining fast performance, especially for the freshest 60 minutes of incoming telemetry.

## Source excerpt

Read about how SolarWinds leverages ClickHouse to process millions of telemetry messages per second, optimizing query performance for real-time observability at scale.