# IBM Instana's solution for monitoring ClickHouse performance

DevFeed: [IBM Instana's solution for monitoring ClickHouse performance](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ibm-instana-s-solution-for-monitoring-clickhouse-performance-21636.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/ibm-instance-monitoring-clickhouse-performance>)

Author: IBM

Published: 2025-01-17T15:30:48Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [OpenTelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opentelemetry.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tracing.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [ibm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ibm.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/distributed-systems.md>)

Tags: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed-systems.md>), [ibm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ibm.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [opentelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentelemetry.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tracing.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how IBM Instana built a custom OpenTelemetry span exporter to monitor ClickHouse performance. It describes the need for real-time tracing and the limitations of using materialized views, including added overhead and complexity.

## Source excerpt

Discover how Instana built a custom OpenTelemetry span exporter to efficiently monitor ClickHouse performance.