I've been putting my metrics, logs, and traces in ClickHouse for a while — it's fast, cheap, and I'm perfectly happy writing ClickHouse SQL. The problem was never the query language. It was Grafana. Grafana's official ClickHouse datasource works, but you're stuck writing SQL into a generic query box. You lose all the stuff that makes Grafana Grafana — the native metrics explorer, the logs view, the trace waterfall, the built-in correlations between them. All of that only lights up for "real" Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo datasources. So I built Cerberus. It sits in front of ClickHouse and pretends to be exactly those three. You add it to Grafana as a Prometheus, a Loki, and a Tempo datasource, and suddenly you get the full native UX back.

Cerberus

Keep Grafana®. Swap the backend.

Keep Grafana®. Swap the backend.