Case Study: Instabug achieves 10x faster response times, lower costs, and 30% less storage with ClickHouse

Why Instabug chose ClickHouse for APM

Instabug, a mobile app monitoring platform, needed a better way to handle the extreme volume and complexity of its Application Performance Monitoring (APM) data. Its existing Elasticsearch-based setup struggled with both fast writes and complex analytical reads across billions of events per day, making it hard to deliver responsive dashboards and aggregations for crashes, network issues, launch latency, and other performance metrics.

Instabug migrated its APM datastore to ClickHouse, using partitioned tables, materialized views, and a phased rollout to move workloads gradually and safely. With ClickHouse, Instabug achieved 10x faster response times, cheaper operations, and a 30% reduction in storage, while also scaling to about 3 billion events per day and reducing the number of machines needed compared with Elasticsearch.

Instabug

Sayed Alesawy

Backend Lead