# Shopify powers observability for global-scale commerce with ClickHouse

DevFeed: [Shopify powers observability for global-scale commerce with ClickHouse](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/shopify-powers-observability-for-global-scale-commerce-with-clickhouse-5566.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/shopify-observability-at-global-scale>)

Author: ClickHouse

Published: 2026-08-20T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [log management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/log-management.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Go](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/go.md>), [Ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ruby.md>), [TypeScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/typescript.md>)

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## AI overview

Shopify built Observe, a unified observability platform on ClickHouse, to consolidate metrics, logs, traces, and exceptions. The platform delivers up to 30x faster queries, ingests about 100 million events per second at peak, and keeps telemetry queryable in under a minute while improving cost predictability.

## Source excerpt

Shopify unified global-scale observability on ClickHouse, achieving up to 30x faster queries while ingesting 100 million events per second at peak.