Show HN: IceGate – Observability data lake engine
Category: observability
Tags: observability, data-lake, rust, opentelemetry, apache-iceberg
Score: 7.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 7, Utility: 7)
IceGate is an observability data lake engine built in Rust that combines Apache Iceberg, Arrow, and Parquet with OpenTelemetry support to provide a scalable, cost-effective platform for logs, metrics, traces, and events. It's interesting because it offers a unified, open-standards-based alternative to proprietary observability suites with ACID transactions, exactly-once delivery, and real-time query capabilities while leveraging object storage for persistence.
Target audience: devops, backend devs, data engineers
Repository: https://github.com/icegatetech/icegate · Rust · Apache-2.0 · 12 stars
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