# How we made ClickStack 5x faster for ClickHouse observability

DevFeed: [How we made ClickStack 5x faster for ClickHouse observability](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-we-made-clickstack-5x-faster-for-clickhouse-observability-5408.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/making-clickstack-5x-faster-clickhouse-observability>)

Author: Aaron Knudtson

Published: 2026-07-02T16:20:00Z

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>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [OpenTelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opentelemetry.md>)

Tags: [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [opentelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentelemetry.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>)

## AI overview

ClickStack's benchmark-driven schema and query optimizations reduced representative observability query latency by more than 5x while balancing ingestion, storage, and operational efficiency.

## Source excerpt

Learn how the ClickStack team used a benchmark-driven process -- combining primary key redesign, text indexes, alias columns, and materialized views -- to reduce observability query latency by more than 5x ahead of general availability.