Uptrace
Cost-efficient observability platform for application traces, metrics, and logs
- Also known as
- uptrace
Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Uptrace?
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.
Uptrace 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.
From $0.075/GB spans/logs, $0.025 per 1M datapoints metrics. 50 GB free/month, automatic discounts at scale.
Usage-based
Pay for data ingested; rates decrease with volume
- metrics_free
- 5,000 timeseries/mo
- spans_and_logs_free
- 50 GB/mo
- 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
Add-ons
- Cold Storage retention (beyond 4 weeks, up to 100 weeks)$0.01 per GB-month + $0.20 per 1000 timeseries-month
What Uptrace 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.
- Trace role
- SaaS platform
- OpenTelemetry support
- OTel-native
- Multi-protocol (Jaeger + Zipkin + OTLP)
- ✓
- Trace search / filter by attributes
- ✓
- Service dependency graph
- ✓
- High-cardinality attribute exploration
- ✓
- Tail-based / dynamic sampling
- -
- Auto-instrumentation
- None
- Correlate traces with metrics/logs
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
- Storage backend
- ClickHouse with PostgreSQL for metadata
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (17)
Independently observed- Tempo•
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Vector
- FluentBit
- CloudWatch
- Grafana
- GitHub Actions
- Slack
- PagerDuty
- AlertManager
- WebHook
- Google Cloud Auth
- Okta
- Keycloak
- Google Cloud•
- Terraform•
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Uptrace FAQ
Common questions about Uptrace, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Uptrace?
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
Is Uptrace free to use?
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
What platforms does Uptrace support?
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
Can Uptrace be self-hosted?
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
What does Uptrace integrate with?
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
What security certifications does Uptrace have?
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
Is Uptrace open source?
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.
Where is Uptrace available?
Uptrace is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.
Source: https://uptrace.dev/pricing
Uptrace alternatives
Other distributed tracing tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- AWS X-RayUnified monitoring platform for collecting and analyzing metrics, logs, and traces from AWS infrastructure and applicationsmedium · 63%
- OpenTelemetryOpen source framework for collecting and exporting distributed system telemetry without vendor lock-inlow · 46%
- Grafana TempoA scalable distributed tracing backend optimized for cost and operational simplicitymedium · 58%
- HoneycombObservability platform for tracing and debugging distributed systems and AI workflows in productionmedium · 72%
- SigNozUnified observability platform consolidating logs, metrics, and traces on the OpenTelemetry standardmedium · 54%
- JaegerOpen-source distributed tracing backend for monitoring and troubleshooting microservice applicationslow · 38%
Compare Uptrace
Side by side against other distributed tracing tools, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI 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 Uptrace, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 95 | 0.16 | 14.9 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.06 | 6.3 | ✓ |
| Package downloads | 42 | 0.14 | 5.7 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 45 | 0.12 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 94 | 0.05 | 4.9 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 75 | 0.06 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 30 | 0.08 | 2.5 | ✓ |
| Development activity | 25 | 0.09 | 2.3 | ✓ |
| Stars | 69 | 0.03 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | ✓ |
| Security score | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
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
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 5 | mediumsource · 2026-10-15 · 65% |
Adoption
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 8 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 58% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Hosting: both · Trace role: platform · Service map: Yes · Otel support: native · Trace search: Yes · Multi protocol: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-15 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 10 | mediumsource · 2026-10-15 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-10-15 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | AGPL-3.0 | mediumsource · 2026-10-15 · 67% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | mediumsource · 2026-09-14 · 50% |
Pricing
Release
Reliability
Security
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