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SigNoz

The Open Source Datadog Alternative

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What is SigNoz?

OpenTelemetry-native observability platform that brings traces, metrics, and logs into one unified system with simple usage-based pricing, available as cloud or self-hosted.

Independently observed

SigNoz pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $0.10/moUsage-basedFree tier

Usage-based: $0.30/GB for traces/logs, $0.10/million metric samples. Free tier and cloud starting at $49/month.

Community Edition

Free
Free

Self-hosted, open source

  • Full access to all features

Teams

$49/month base + usage overages

Cloud offering for fast-scaling teams

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$49/month
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163 GB logs/traces or 490M metric samples
  • Access to all features
  • Send any mix of logs, traces & metrics
  • Unlimited teammates
  • Monitor any number of hosts
  • Support via in-product Chat, Email, and Slack
  • SOC2 Type II & HIPAA Compliant
  • Data centers in US, EU & India
  • Access to MCP Server and Noz AI teammate

Enterprise

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annual

For larger orgs requiring data residency, compliance and dedicated support

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$4000
  • Dedicated environment or bring-your-own-cloud
  • Self-hosted with support contract
  • Volume discounts & annual contracts
  • HIPAA, BAA agreement and other certifications
  • Dedicated Slack, email & in-product support
  • Guided migration support
  • Ongoing professional services
  • Team training
  • SLA with downtime guarantee

What SigNoz does

The capabilities that matter for distributed tracing tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Core
Trace role
SaaS platform
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
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
Architecture
Storage backend
-
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Hybrid
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (13)

Independently observed
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Slack
  • PagerDuty
  • OpsGenie
  • Redis
  • PostgreSQL
  • NginX
  • MongoDB
  • ClickHouse
  • Datadog
  • Grafana

SigNoz alternatives

Other distributed tracing tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for SigNoz, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 69 / 100
low · 37%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Github Activity630.1610.1✓
Release Cadence980.109.8✓
Security Posture500.168.0✓
Pricing Transparency1000.088.0✓
Github Stars850.054.2✓
Integrations490.083.9✓
Reliability500.052.5✓
Docs Quality00.060.0-
Package Downloads00.160.0-
Stackoverflow Activity00.100.0-

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Activity

AttributeValueEvidence
Commits last 30d100mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars31,749highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"hosting":"both","trace_role":"platform","otel_support":"native","trace_search":true,"high_cardinality":true,"metrics_correlation":true,"auto_instrumentation":"agent"}mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count13mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryTypeScripthighsource · 2026-08-01 · 90%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Starting gbp0.1mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Release

AttributeValueEvidence
Cadence days4mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
HipaaYeshighsource · 2026-08-01 · 75%
Soc2Yeslowsource · 2026-08-01 · 48%