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Last updated: 2026-05-05 · Pharlux v1.0.0 · By Ian Holt

If your Datadog bill is creeping past the comfort line — or if your Loki + Mimir + Tempo + Grafana + Alertmanager stack has become a part-time job you didn't sign up for — there is a third option.

This is the practical setup guide for running Pharlux on a single sub-$25/month VPS: one binary, one config file, one systemd unit, no Docker, no external databases beyond embedded SQLite. By the end you will have an OpenTelemetry-native ingestion endpoint (OTLP gRPC and HTTP/protobuf), durable storage, and SQL across metrics and logs through Apache DataFusion. Setup is about thirty minutes.