Uptrace

OpenTelemetry-native observability

Also known as
uptrace

What is Uptrace?

Built on OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse, Uptrace unifies traces, metrics, and logs in a single platform. Available as managed cloud or self-hosted deployment.

Independently observed

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.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $0.03/moUsage-basedFree tier14-day trial

From $0.075/GB. 50 GB/month free tier. No hidden fees, per-seat charges, or host counts. Hard monthly budget cap available.

Pay-as-you-go

From $0.075/GB (traces/logs), $0.025/M datapoints (metrics). 50 GB/month free. Billed month-end or at $400 whichever first. Volume discounts automatic.

Usage-based billing with no per-seat fees

metrics
included
traces_logs
50 GB/month
  • Unlimited users, services, and hosts
  • Traces, metrics, and logs
  • Service graph and RED metrics
  • Alerting and error monitors
  • Custom dashboards
  • 30-day default retention
  • OpenTelemetry-native ingest
  • SSO (Google/Okta/Keycloak)

Add-ons

  • Cold storage (extended retention)$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.

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
-
Correlation
Correlate traces with metrics/logs
Deployment
Hosting
Cloud + self-hosted
Architecture
Storage backend
ClickHouse
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • On-premise
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (12)

Independently observed
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus
  • Vector
  • FluentBit
  • CloudWatch
  • Grafana
  • Slack
  • PagerDuty
  • Google Auth
  • Okta
  • Keycloak
  • MCP Server

Uptrace alternatives

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

Independent · unbought · dated

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 Uptrace, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 67 / 100
low · 48%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Reliability9530.002850.0
Package Downloads4726.001229.8
Pricing Transparency10012.001200.0
Release Cadence9410.00938.9
Security Posture4022.00880.0
Capabilities6712.00805.4
Price Level808.00640.0
Integrations3216.00512.6
Github Stars695.00342.3
Github Activity018.000.0-
Stackoverflow Activity012.000.0-

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.

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars4,253highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90%
Package downloads weekly4,380highsource · 2026-08-03 · 85%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"hosting":"both","trace_role":"platform","service_map":true,"otel_support":"native","trace_search":true,"tail_sampling":false,"multi_protocol":true,"storage_backend":"ClickHouse","high_cardinality":false,"metrics_correlation":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count12mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryGohighsource · 2026-08-03 · 90%

License

AttributeValueEvidence
SpdxAGPL-3.0mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 67%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYeslowsource · 2026-08-03 · 48%
Modelfreemiummediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 56%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Starting gbp0.025mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Release

AttributeValueEvidence
Cadence days11mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 70%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Sla pct99.9mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Soc2Yeslowsource · 2026-08-03 · 48%