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.
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. 50 GB/month free tier. No hidden fees, per-seat charges, or host counts. Hard monthly budget cap available.
Pay-as-you-go
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.
- 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
- -
- Correlate traces with metrics/logs
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
- Storage backend
- ClickHouse
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- 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.
- OpenTelemetryThe open standard for telemetrylow · 37%
- SigNozThe Open Source Datadog Alternativelow · 37%
- OpenTelemetryThe open standard for telemetrylow · 47%
- JaegerOpen source, distributed tracing platformlow · 15%
- Grafana TempoScale tracing with minimal operational cost and less complexitylow · 46%
- OdigosAsk Production Anythinglow · 12%
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.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 95 | 30.00 | 2850.0 | ✓ |
| Package Downloads | 47 | 26.00 | 1229.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 94 | 10.00 | 938.9 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 40 | 22.00 | 880.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 12.00 | 805.4 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 32 | 16.00 | 512.6 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 69 | 5.00 | 342.3 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 0 | 18.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 12.00 | 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.
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 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
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 12 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | AGPL-3.0 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 67% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 11 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 70% |
Reliability
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Soc2 | Yes | lowsource · 2026-08-03 · 48% |