# Stop guessing in production: Full fidelity tracing at scale with ClickHouse and Odigos

DevFeed: [Stop guessing in production: Full fidelity tracing at scale with ClickHouse and Odigos](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/stop-guessing-in-production-full-fidelity-tracing-at-scale-with-clickhouse-and-odigos-5455.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/odigos-full-fidelity-tracing>)

Author: Will Searle

Published: 2026-05-05T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tracing.md>), [Instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/instrumentation.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [OpenTelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opentelemetry.md>), [eBPF](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ebpf.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>)

Tags: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [ebpf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ebpf.md>), [instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instrumentation.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [opentelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentelemetry.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tracing.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how combining ClickStack, a ClickHouse-native observability backend, with Odigos, a zero-code OpenTelemetry instrumentation platform, can reduce observability gaps. It focuses on capturing complete, contextual telemetry across distributed and asynchronous systems, including trace context crossing Kafka and background-processing boundaries, while addressing the operational overhead and scalability risks of OpenTelemetry pipelines.

## Source excerpt

How ClickStack and Odigos eliminate observability gaps with zero-code eBPF instrumentation and full-fidelity distributed tracing at scale.