Observatorium

What it does

Access control

The API proxy is described as supporting tenant isolation, cross-tenant requests, rate limiting, roles, and tracing, and as intended for all external traffic.checked 5 Oct 2026

Architecture

It combines projects including Thanos, Loki, Tempo/Jaeger, and Open Policy Agent under consistent tenancy APIs.checked 11 Oct 2026

Authentication

The homepage lists authentication using OIDC/OAuth2.checked 11 Oct 2026

Authorization

The homepage lists authorization using Open Policy Agent.checked 11 Oct 2026

Deployment

The project provides Jsonnet configuration and a Kubernetes Operator deployment option.checked 11 Oct 2026

External traffic

The documentation says the Observatorium API proxy should be used for all external traffic and supports tenancy isolation, rate limiting, roles, and tracing.checked 11 Oct 2026

Integrations

The documentation describes combining Thanos, Loki, Tempo/Jaeger, and Open Policy Agent in the Observatorium system.checked 5 Oct 2026

Intended users

The getting-started guide describes the system for people operating observability in their own environments and notes that the Operator is used in production by larger users.checked 11 Oct 2026

License

The homepage describes Observatorium as open source under the Apache 2.0 license.checked 11 Oct 2026

Logs

It supports log ingestion through the Loki Push API and access through Loki query and tail APIs.checked 11 Oct 2026

Maintainers

The maintainers page lists contributors affiliated with Red Hat, Polar Signals, or unaffiliated contributors.checked 5 Oct 2026

Metrics

It supports Prometheus-compatible remote-write ingestion and query APIs.checked 11 Oct 2026

Metrics storage

The architecture page says Thanos Receive replicates each write request three times across availability zones and uploads two-hour data blocks to regional Amazon S3 storage.checked 11 Oct 2026

Project status

The repository describes the project as work in progress and says documentation, design, user guides, and configuration support are in progress.checked 5 Oct 2026

Project type

The site describes Observatorium as a meta project that combines existing observability projects behind consistent tenancy APIs and signal correlation.checked 5 Oct 2026

Purpose

Observatorium is an open-source system for ingesting, storing, and using observability signals in a multi-tenant Kubernetes environment.checked 11 Oct 2026

Support

The project repository directs users to its Slack channel or GitHub issues for questions or missing features.checked 5 Oct 2026

Tracing status

The homepage labels traces as “Coming Soon!”.checked 11 Oct 2026