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LogHouse vs self-managed ClickHouse
ClickHouse is an excellent engine for log analytics. Self-managing it means you own schema, ingest, replication, upgrades, and access control. LogHouse sells the managed product around that class of infrastructure.
ClickHouse Cloud and self-hosted ClickHouse are different operational models. LogHouse is not a drop-in replacement for arbitrary ClickHouse SQL warehouses.
| Category | LogHouse | self-managed ClickHouse |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Product pricing on ingest and plan. | You pay for machines, object storage, networking, and engineering time. |
| Log ingestion | Documented ingest API, tokens, and routing. | You design tables, buffers, and insert paths. |
| Search | LogHouse explorer, patterns, and APIs. | Whatever SQL and UIs you build or connect (Grafana, HyperDX, etc.). |
| Retention | Policies in the product. | TTLs, mutations, and disk management you operate. |
| Operational burden | None for the database layer. | High: upgrades, merges, noisy neighbors, backups. |
| OpenTelemetry | Supported ingest path. | You wire collectors to your tables. |
| Existing observability integration | Grafana, Datadog (where APIs allow), HTTP. | Anything that speaks ClickHouse, if you expose it safely. |
| Managed infrastructure | Yes. | No, unless you also buy ClickHouse Cloud and still build the log product yourself. |