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# Build your own observability stack

> Landing page building your own observability stack

This guide helps you build a custom observability stack using ClickHouse as the foundation. Learn how to design, implement, and optimize your observability solution for logs, metrics, and traces, with practical examples and best practices.

| Page                                                                                                  | Description                                                                                                                                                         |
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| [Introduction](/guides/use-cases/observability/build-your-own/introduction)                           | This guide is designed for if you're looking to build your own observability solution using ClickHouse, focusing on logs and traces.                                |
| [Schema design](/guides/use-cases/observability/build-your-own/schema-design)                         | Learn why users are recommended to create their own schema for logs and traces, along with some best practices for doing so.                                        |
| [Managing data](/guides/use-cases/observability/build-your-own/managing-data)                         | Deployments of ClickHouse for observability invariably involve large datasets, which need to be managed. ClickHouse offers features to assist with data management. |
| [Integrating OpenTelemetry](/guides/use-cases/observability/build-your-own/integrating-opentelemetry) | Collecting and exporting logs and traces using OpenTelemetry with ClickHouse.                                                                                       |
| [Using Visualization Tools](/guides/use-cases/observability/build-your-own/grafana)                   | Learn how to use observability visualization tools for ClickHouse, including HyperDX and Grafana.                                                                   |
| [Demo Application](/guides/use-cases/observability/build-your-own/demo-application)                   | Explore the OpenTelemetry demo application forked to work with ClickHouse for logs and traces.                                                                      |