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Dev tools · April 2, 2024

HyperDX Local – Open-source Datadog alternative for local debugging/dev

Hi HN, Mike and Warren here! We’ve been building an open source local-dev-friendly mode for HyperDX (hyperdx.io). It's a single Docker container that lets you view logs, metrics, and traces for local development in a similar way you can use them for production (live tail, filter/correlate logs & spans, build charts, flamegraph, etc.) Basically, imagine you can run Datadog in a single container for local development. We does this by spinning up an OpenTelemetry collector, Clickhouse DB and HyperDX UI all in a single container - it only takes a few seconds to start and lets you start live…

HyperDX Local – Open-source Datadog alternative for local debugging/dev launched on April 2, 2024 with 29 votes, #758 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

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In plain words

HyperDX Local is an open-source Docker container that provides local development debugging capabilities similar to Datadog. It bundles an OpenTelemetry collector, ClickHouse database, and HyperDX UI to let developers view logs, metrics, and traces for their local applications. The tool supports live log tailing, filtering and correlating logs with spans, charting metrics, and viewing flamegraphs. It starts in seconds and is designed for developers who want production-like observability during local development without external services.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Resolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors powered by ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry. - hyperdx/LOCAL.md at main · hyperdxio/hyperdx

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN, Mike and Warren here! We’ve been building an open source local-dev-friendly mode for HyperDX (hyperdx.io). It's a single Docker container that lets you view logs, metrics, and traces for local development in a similar way you can use them for production (live tail, filter/correlate logs & spans, build…

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