ClickHouse Acquires Langfuse

(langfuse.com)

67 points | by tin7in 2 hours ago ago

15 comments

  • bezbac an hour ago

    Congratulations to everyone involved, quite remarkable considering Langfuse was only founded as part of YC 23.

    • shmichael 2 minutes ago

      Without the purchase price, it is unclear whether this deserves congratulations or condolences.

      Two years in the LLM race will have definitely depleted their seed raise of $4m from 2023, and with no news of additional funds raised it's more than likely this was a fire sale.

  • ponywombat an hour ago

    Ah, the painful migration to Clickhouse from v2 to v3 makes sense now https://langfuse.com/self-hosting/upgrade/upgrade-guides/upg...

  • jimmySixDOF 28 minutes ago

    I predict it will be Pydantic next to get picked up by someone for logfire and agent framework.... fine as long as all these open source projects stay open source then good for them

  • kmlx 2 hours ago

    maybe clickhouse can finally make sense of the langfuse documentation

  • Nora23 39 minutes ago

    Does this mean Langfuse will now have better ClickHouse integration?

  • swyx an hour ago

    (congrats team! such a joy to see you succeed)

    every single day there is an acquisition on here. what's going on in the macro?

  • mritchie712 an hour ago

    the "Prompt Management" part of these products always seemed odd. Does anyone use it? Why?

    • dandelionv1bes an hour ago

      I do understand why it’s a product - it feels a bit like what databricks has with model artifacts. Ie having a repo of prompts so you can track performance changes against is good. Especially if say you have users other than engineers touching them (ie product manager wants to AB).

      Having said that, I struggled a lot with actually implementing langfuse due to numerous bugs/confusing AI driven documentation. So I’m amazed that it’s being bought to be really frank. I was just on the free version in order to look at it and make a broader recommendation, I wasn’t particularly impressed. Mileage may vary though, perhaps it’s a me issue.

      • alexpadula an hour ago

        I thought the docs were pretty good just going through them to see what the product was. For me I just don't see the use-case but I'm not well versed in their industry.

        • dandelionv1bes 42 minutes ago

          I think the docs are great to read, but implementing was a completely different story for me, ie, the Ask AI recommended solution for implementing Claude just didn’t work for me.

          They do have GitHub discussions where you can raise things, but I also encountered some issues with installation that just made me want to roll the dice on another provider.

          They do have a new release coming in a few weeks so I’ll try it again then for sure.

          Edit: I think I’m coming across as negative and do want to recommend that it is worth trying out langfuse for sure if you’re looking at observability!

  • mercurialsolo an hour ago

    Clickhouse needs observability models to be more useful to agent run infra

  • tuananh 2 hours ago

    how does it benefit for clickhouse?