# SigNoz vs Uptrace

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Uptrace

| Attribute | SigNoz | Uptrace |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 56.6 (58% (medium)) | 62.7 (63% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 31,930 | 4,270 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 3,588 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","trace_role":"platform","service_map":true,"otel_support":"native","trace_search":true,"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 | 50 | 14 |
| 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":"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"}]` |
| 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 | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"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"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free, always","features":["Full platform access","50+ pre-built dashboards","Service graph","Alerts and notifications","Unlimited users, services, and hosts"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"50 GB of traces and logs per month","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"traces_and_logs":"50 GB/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pay-as-you-go","summary":"Traces/logs: $0.10/GB (scales to $0.016/GB). Metrics: $0.025/M datapoints. Hard spending cap available.","features":["Distributed tracing","Metrics monitoring","Log aggregation","Custom dashboards","PromQL queries","Slack/PagerDuty alerts"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.1,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000000,"unit":"datapoint"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.025,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Charged at month-end or when hitting $400 spend, whichever comes first","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"On-Premises","summary":"License pricing. Contact sales.","features":["Full feature parity with cloud","No feature limits","Custom retention policies","Dedicated support engineer","SOC 2 certification available","Data remains on your infrastructure"],"description":"Self-hosted licensed deployment","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Cold storage (beyond 4 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"}]},{"name":"Dropped/sampled data ingestion","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier includes 50 GB/month. Usage: $0.10/GB (scales to $0.016/GB), $0.025/M datapoints for metrics. Volume discounts automatic. No per-seat fees, unlimited users.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T16:39:12.234Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.025,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 4 | 11 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| 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%2Fexample%2Fkvrocks&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 | - | ClickHouse with PostgreSQL for metadata |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:20:20.779Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*