# Supabase acquires Logflare

[Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase) · Paul Copplestone · Dec 2, 2021

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Supabase announced the acquisition of Logflare, a realtime log ingestion and analytics platform. Modern database architectures encompass APIs, authentication, storage, and CDNs, requiring unified observability to diagnose slow queries and trace user requests effectively. Built with Elixir—the same language powering Supabase's Realtime Engine—Logflare automates schema adaptation for streaming inserts and enables developers to construct APIs from SQL queries via Logflare Endpoints. The integration roadmap includes embedding log querying with SQL directly into the Supabase Dashboard, maintaining existing integrations for Vercel and Cloudflare, and transitioning Logflare toward a fully open-source implementation with multiple backend storage engines. Over the coming months, existing Logflare users will be migrated to the Supabase platform under matching pricing tiers.

## Context

Databases and multi-service stacks comprising APIs, storage, authentication, and CDNs often function as black boxes when diagnosing errors, slow queries, and performance bottlenecks. Supabase required a unified logging and measurement system to support observability, alerting, debugging, and analytics across its platform.

## Approach / What changed

Supabase acquired Logflare, an Elixir-based log ingestion platform that displays events in real time. The integration roadmap incorporates SQL-queryable logs directly into the Supabase Dashboard, preserves Vercel and Cloudflare integrations, migrates existing Logflare accounts, and focuses on developing a fully open-source version supporting multiple storage backends beyond BigQuery.

## Takeaways

- Logflare shares Elixir as its foundational programming language with Supabase's Realtime Engine.
- Logflare simplifies analytics ingestion by automatically adapting schemas for stream inserts and generating APIs from SQL statements using Logflare Endpoints.
- Supabase is developing an open-source version of Logflare with planned support for multiple storage engines beyond its native BigQuery implementation.

**Tags:** [Developer Experience](https://yomu.fyi/topic/developer-experience), [Monitoring](https://yomu.fyi/topic/monitoring), [Observability](https://yomu.fyi/topic/observability), [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source), [Postgres](https://yomu.fyi/topic/postgres)

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