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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.
Replacing a backend without forcing teams to rebuild dashboards sounds valuable. What kinds of migrations have been the smoothest so far, and which have surprised you?
Love that this lets me swap the backend without touching Grafana or my alert rules. One thing that would help me actually roll this out: a small migration tool or CLI that ingests an existing Prometheus config and outputs the equivalent ClickHouse schema and sample queries, so I can sanity check what changes before flipping traffic.
finally a way to ditch our custom clickhouse exporter setup without touching grafana. swapping in cerberus for loki queries was painless, and the prometheus endpoint just worked on the first try.
About Cerberus on Product Hunt
“Keep Grafana®. Swap the backend.”
Cerberus was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 10 upvotes and 16 comments, placing #122 on the daily leaderboard. Drop-in Prometheus / Loki / Tempo HTTP gateway for ClickHouse. Keep Grafana, alerting, and your CLI tooling. Swap the backend.
Cerberus was featured in Open Source (68.6k followers), Developer Tools (516.2k followers), GitHub (41.3k followers) and Side Project (5.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 117.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Cerberus?
Cerberus was hunted by Thiago Souza. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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