# Jaeger vs SigNoz

| Attribute | Jaeger | SigNoz |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 59.2 (38% (low)) | 56.6 (58% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 96 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 1,141 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 23,144 | 31,930 |
| deployment.options | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A backend that collects execution traces from microservice-based applications and provides analysis tools to understand system behavior and diagnose issues. Teams use it to track how requests move through their services and identify where delays or errors occur. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","trace_role":"platform","service_map":true,"otel_support":"native","trace_search":true,"tail_sampling":true,"storage_backend":"Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Cassandra, Badger, ClickHouse, Kafka (buffer), memory"}` | `{"hosting":"both","trace_role":"platform","service_map":true,"otel_support":"native","trace_search":true,"metrics_correlation":true,"auto_instrumentation":"agent"}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 50 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"OpenSearch"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"ClickHouse"},{"name":"Badger"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Memory"}]` | `[{"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"}]` |
| language.primary | Go | TypeScript |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jaegertracing.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T15:24:51.164Z"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Open Source","description":"Self-hosted open-source version with full feature set","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Cloud","description":"Cloud-hosted platform with usage-based pricing","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Free open-source self-hosted version; cloud plans usage-based with 30-day free trial","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://signoz.io/blog/datadog-pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T15:27:36.293Z","freeTrialDays":30,"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 28 | 4 |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.20.0","date":"2026-07-20T03:34:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.20.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.19.0","date":"2026-06-03T14:25:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.19.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.18.0","date":"2026-05-13T16:01:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.18.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.17.0","date":"2026-03-30T20:07:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.17.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.16.0","date":"2026-03-07T12:49:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.16.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.15.1","date":"2026-02-09T00:17:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.15.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.15.0","date":"2026-02-06T19:06:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.14.1","date":"2026-01-02T18:36:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.14.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.14.0","date":"2026-01-02T02:29:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.14.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.76.0","date":"2025-12-03T16:31:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.76.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.75.0","date":"2025-11-18T18:23:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.75.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.74.0","date":"2025-10-02T12:06:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.74.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.73.0","date":"2025-09-03T18:48:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.73.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.72.0","date":"2025-08-06T19:05:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.72.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.71.0","date":"2025-07-05T00:57:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.71.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.70.0","date":"2025-06-10T18:43:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.70.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.69.0","date":"2025-05-09T21:55:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.69.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.68.0","date":"2025-04-05T10:21:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.68.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.67.0","date":"2025-03-08T05:56:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.67.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.66.0","date":"2025-02-06T19:03:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.66.0"}]` | `[{"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"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.132.1","date":"2026-07-09T20:55:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.132.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.132.0","date":"2026-07-08T07:22:10Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.132.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.131.1","date":"2026-07-02T06:30:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.131.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.132.0-rc.2","date":"2026-07-01T16:48:21Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.132.0-rc.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.132.0-rc.1","date":"2026-07-01T12:51:24Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.132.0-rc.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.131.0","date":"2026-07-01T06:52:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.131.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.130.1","date":"2026-06-24T06:47:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.130.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.130.0","date":"2026-06-23T20:35:52Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.130.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.129.0","date":"2026-06-18T07:15:45Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.129.0"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 7.8 | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":2,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fjaegertracing%2Fjaeger&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"MODERATE"}` | `{"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 | Jaeger | SigNoz |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 |
| **Correlation** |  |  |
| Correlate traces with metrics/logs | - | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Storage backend | Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Cassandra, Badger, ClickHouse, Kafka (buffer), memory | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:17:50.135Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*