# AWS X-Ray vs SigNoz

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** AWS X-Ray

| Attribute | AWS X-Ray | SigNoz |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 72.1 (63% (medium)) | 57.9 (54% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 32,361 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals is an APM solution providing automatic instrumentation and observability for distributed applications across AWS services with prebuilt dashboards, service mapping, and AI-powered troubleshooting. It is indexed under Distributed Tracing Tools.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/xray/","question":"What is AWS X-Ray?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"AWS X-Ray offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/xray/","question":"Is AWS X-Ray free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to AWS X-Ray. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/xray/","question":"What platforms does AWS X-Ray support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for AWS X-Ray, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/xray/","question":"Can AWS X-Ray be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for AWS X-Ray. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as AWS X-Ray not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/trust-center/?nc1=f_cc","question":"What security certifications does AWS X-Ray have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"AWS X-Ray is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_ec2","question":"Where is AWS X-Ray available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"A monitoring and observability tool that aggregates traces, metrics, logs, and dashboards into one interface. Supports self-hosted deployment or cloud operation, built on the OpenTelemetry standard. It is indexed under Distributed Tracing Tools.","source":"https://signoz.io/blog/datadog-pricing/","question":"What is SigNoz?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"SigNoz offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Open Source and Cloud. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://signoz.io/blog/datadog-pricing/","question":"Is SigNoz free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to SigNoz. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://signoz.io/blog/datadog-pricing/","question":"What platforms does SigNoz support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. SigNoz can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://signoz.io/blog/datadog-pricing/","question":"Can SigNoz be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 16 integrations for SigNoz, including Apache, HAProxy, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Open WebUI, DSPy, HCP Vault and OpenTelemetry eBPF, plus 8 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://signoz.io/blog/datadog-pricing/","question":"What does SigNoz integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and HIPAA for SigNoz. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as SigNoz not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://signoz.io","question":"What security certifications does SigNoz have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"SigNoz is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://signoz.io/blog/datadog-pricing/","question":"Where is SigNoz available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A cloud-based monitoring and observability service that centralizes performance data from AWS services and on-premises applications, providing dashboards, automated insights, and distributed tracing capabilities through OpenTelemetry integration. | Open-source observability platform that brings together application telemetry—logs, metrics, and distributed traces—in a single interface, built natively around OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Available as a managed cloud service or self-deployed within your own infrastructure. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"cloud","trace_role":"backend","service_map":true,"otel_support":"ingest","trace_search":true,"metrics_correlation":true,"auto_instrumentation":"agent"}` | `{"hosting":"both","trace_role":"platform","service_map":true,"otel_support":"native","trace_search":true,"storage_backend":"Columnar database","metrics_correlation":true,"auto_instrumentation":"agent"}` |
| integrations.count | - | 500 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"Apache"},{"name":"HAProxy"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"RabbitMQ"},{"name":"Open WebUI"},{"name":"DSPy"},{"name":"HCP Vault"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry eBPF"},{"name":"Langflow"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"Auth0"},{"name":"PgBouncer"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Git"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Google Chat"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Opsgenie"},{"name":"MS Teams"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry Collector"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch"},{"name":"incident.io","native":true,"category":"incident management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Prometheus","native":true,"direction":"inbound"}]` |
| language.primary | - | TypeScript |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free tier","features":["3 Custom Dashboards","Automatic Dashboards","Free metrics from AWS services"],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"custom_dashboards":"3","automatic_dashboards":"unlimited","metrics_per_dashboard":"50"}},{"free":false,"name":"OpenTelemetry metrics ingestion","features":["15 months storage included","No API call charges","No per-metric-series charges"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.5,"currency":"USD"}]},{"free":false,"name":"PromQL query API","features":["Console/dashboard queries free"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1000000,"unit":"samples scanned"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"}]},{"free":false,"name":"Container Insights with OpenTelemetry","features":["EKS cluster metrics at 30-second granularity","Kubernetes pod/node labels","PromQL querying"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.08,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier available. Usage-based pricing: $0.50/GB for OpenTelemetry metrics, $0.08/GB for Container Insights, $0.01 per million query samples.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T10:31:43.005Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"samples scanned","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"SigNoz Cloud","summary":"From $49/month, usage-based pricing with 30-day free trial","features":["logs","metrics","traces","alerts","dashboards","exceptions","infrastructure monitoring"],"description":"Fully managed cloud deployment","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise Cloud","features":["SOC 2 Type II","HIPAA compliance","RBAC","ingestion controls","custom retention","data residency","region selection","support"],"contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"BYOC","features":["SOC 2 Type II","HIPAA compliance","RBAC","ingestion controls","custom retention","data residency"],"contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise Self-Hosted","features":["SOC 2 Type II","HIPAA compliance","RBAC","ingestion controls","custom retention","support"],"contactSales":true},{"free":true,"name":"Open-Source Self-Hosted","description":"Community edition, fully open-source","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Usage-based cloud pricing from $49/month with 30-day free trial; free open-source self-hosted option.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://signoz.io/blog/datadog-pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-15T20:22:58.436Z","freeTrialDays":30,"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 5 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.146.0","date":"2026-10-14T06:42:10Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.146.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.145.0","date":"2026-10-05T06:41:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.145.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.144.0","date":"2026-09-29T06:34:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.144.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.143.0","date":"2026-09-23T07:27:00Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.143.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.142.1","date":"2026-09-17T14:55:14Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.142.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.142.0","date":"2026-09-16T06:40:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.142.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.141.1","date":"2026-09-09T13:02:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.141.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.141.0","date":"2026-09-09T06:43:45Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.141.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.140.0","date":"2026-09-02T07:13:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.140.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.139.0","date":"2026-08-26T06:42:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.139.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.138.0","date":"2026-08-19T06:39:10Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.138.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.137.1","date":"2026-08-14T19:40:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.137.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.137.0","date":"2026-08-12T08:57:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.137.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.136.1","date":"2026-08-05T19:38:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.136.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.136.0","date":"2026-08-05T07:28:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.136.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.135.1","date":"2026-07-31T07:39:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.135.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.135.0","date":"2026-07-29T17:04:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.135.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.134.0","date":"2026-07-22T13:23:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.134.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.133.0","date":"2026-07-15T06:34:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.133.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.132.2","date":"2026-07-10T13:11:10Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.132.2"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"PCI-DSS","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA/HITECH","status":"active"},{"name":"FedRAMP","status":"active"},{"name":"GDPR","status":"active"}]` | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://aws.amazon.com/security/ https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/ | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fsignoz%2Fsignoz&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Distributed Tracing Tools)

| Capability | AWS X-Ray | SigNoz |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Trace role | Trace backend / store | SaaS platform |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry support | OTLP ingest | OTel-native |
| Multi-protocol (Jaeger + Zipkin + OTLP) | - | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Trace search / filter by attributes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Service dependency graph | ✓ | ✓ |
| High-cardinality attribute exploration | - | - |
| **Sampling** |  |  |
| Tail-based / dynamic sampling | - | - |
| **Instrumentation** |  |  |
| Auto-instrumentation | Agent-based | Agent-based |
| **Correlation** |  |  |
| Correlate traces with metrics/logs | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Storage backend | - | Columnar database |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:06:08.341Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*