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Dev tools · June 14, 2023

HouseWatch, open source pganalyze for ClickHouse

Hey all! Yakko from PostHog here. We manage a few large ClickHouse clusters and found ourselves using a lot of different tools internally to monitor and manage them. We also realized that there was no proper UI available for easily digging into query performance and deriving actionable insights, so we built HouseWatch. HouseWatch is meant to cover some of the functionality that pganalyze does for Postgres, but also covers some cluster management aspects that we felt were very tied together, given optimizing ClickHouse performance often requires system tuning and data migrations. It was…

HouseWatch, open source pganalyze for ClickHouse launched on June 14, 2023 with 10 votes, #1,691 of 4,655 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

In plain words

HouseWatch is an open-source monitoring and management tool for ClickHouse clusters. It provides a user interface for analyzing query performance and deriving actionable insights, similar to pganalyze for Postgres, while also handling cluster management tasks like system tuning and data migrations. Built by PostHog and available as beta software, it deploys easily via Docker Compose and is designed for teams running ClickHouse in production environments.

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From the sources

Open source tool for monitoring and managing ClickHouse clusters - PostHog/HouseWatch

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey all! Yakko from PostHog here. We manage a few large ClickHouse clusters and found ourselves using a lot of different tools internally to monitor and manage them. We also realized that there was no proper UI available for easily digging into query performance and deriving actionable insights, so we built…

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