# SigNoz vs Uptrace

| Attribute | SigNoz | Uptrace |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 57.9 (54% (medium)) | 57.4 (69% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 5 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 32,361 | 4,303 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 1,716 |
| content.faq | `[{"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}]` | `[{"answer":"Full-featured observability backend built on OpenTelemetry standards and ClickHouse. Provides distributed tracing, metrics, and log management with dramatically lower costs than competing platforms through pay-per-gigabyte billing rather than enterprise licensing models. It is indexed under Distributed Tracing Tools.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"What is Uptrace?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Uptrace is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the AGPL-3.0 licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $0.03. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"Is Uptrace free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Uptrace. 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://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"What platforms does Uptrace support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Uptrace can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"Can Uptrace be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 14 integrations for Uptrace, including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Vector, FluentBit, CloudWatch, Grafana, GitHub Actions and Slack, plus 6 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"What does Uptrace integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Uptrace. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Uptrace not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://uptrace.dev","question":"What security certifications does Uptrace have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"Yes. Uptrace is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace","question":"Is Uptrace open source?","confidence":0.67},{"answer":"Uptrace is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"Where is Uptrace available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | An observability solution that brings together application traces, metrics, and log records into one place. Powered by OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse, it's offered both as a cloud service and for self-hosting, designed to process and analyze large volumes of telemetry at substantially lower cost than competing platforms. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","trace_role":"platform","service_map":true,"otel_support":"native","trace_search":true,"storage_backend":"Columnar database","metrics_correlation":true,"auto_instrumentation":"agent"}` | `{"hosting":"both","trace_role":"platform","service_map":true,"otel_support":"native","trace_search":true,"multi_protocol":true,"storage_backend":"ClickHouse with PostgreSQL for metadata","high_cardinality":true,"metrics_correlation":true,"auto_instrumentation":"none"}` |
| integrations.count | 500 | 10 |
| 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"}]` | `[{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Vector"},{"name":"FluentBit"},{"name":"CloudWatch"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"AlertManager"},{"name":"WebHook"},{"name":"Google Cloud Auth"},{"name":"Okta"},{"name":"Keycloak"},{"name":"Google Cloud","native":true},{"name":"Terraform","native":true},{"name":"Tempo","native":true,"category":"tracing"}]` |
| language.primary | TypeScript | Go |
| license.spdx | - | AGPL-3.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"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"]}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Usage-based","summary":"$0.075/GB spans/logs (from $0.10/GB, down to $0.016/GB at scale), $0.025 per 1M datapoints for metrics. 50 GB free/month.","features":["Unlimited users, services, and hosts","OpenTelemetry native","Trace, metrics, and log ingestion","High-cardinality attributes","Automatic volume discounts (down to $0.016/GB)","Monthly billing cap","Sampling configuration"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.075,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000000,"unit":"datapoints"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.025,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Pay for data ingested; rates decrease with volume","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"metrics_free":"5,000 timeseries/mo","spans_and_logs_free":"50 GB/mo"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Cold Storage retention (beyond 4 weeks, up to 100 weeks)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB-month"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"timeseries-month"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.2,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $0.075/GB spans/logs, $0.025 per 1M datapoints metrics. 50 GB free/month, automatic discounts at scale.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-14T15:37:57.437Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"datapoints","amount":0.025,"currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":0.025,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 5 | 11 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| 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}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fuptrace%2Fuptrace&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Distributed Tracing Tools)

| Capability | SigNoz | Uptrace |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Trace role | SaaS platform | SaaS platform |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry support | OTel-native | 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 | None |
| **Correlation** |  |  |
| Correlate traces with metrics/logs | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Storage backend | Columnar database | ClickHouse with PostgreSQL for metadata |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:05:52.175Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*