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Uptrace

Open-source APM on OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse for traces, metrics and logs.

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About Uptrace

Uptrace is an open-source application performance monitoring tool that stores OpenTelemetry traces, metrics and logs in ClickHouse. It gives you a service overview, trace explorer, log search, metric dashboards and alerting in a single Go binary plus the database, which makes it noticeably lighter to run than larger stacks. The project emphasises storage efficiency through ClickHouse compression, so it is attractive for teams that collect a lot of spans and want to keep them for longer without a big bill. You can self-host the AGPL-licensed edition for free or use Uptrace Cloud, which is billed by GB of data and data points rather than by host. It is a smaller project than SigNoz or Grafana, with a smaller community and fewer ready-made dashboards and integrations, so expect to rely more on the docs and OpenTelemetry's own instrumentation.

Best for: Small teams wanting a lightweight self-hosted OpenTelemetry APM.

Pros and cons

What works

  • Lightweight to self-host
  • Efficient ClickHouse storage keeps costs down
  • Covers traces, metrics and logs together

Why people leave

  • Smaller community and ecosystem
  • Fewer prebuilt dashboards and integrations
  • AGPL licence may concern some companies

Top Uptrace alternatives

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  1. 1SigNoz logo
    SigNoz

    Larger community and more built-in features on a similar architecture.

    66.5
  2. 2Jaeger logo
    Jaeger

    CNCF tracing backend if traces are all you need.

    62.6
  3. 3OpenObserve logo
    OpenObserve

    Adds RUM and session replay with object-storage-backed data.

    59.6
  4. 4Honeycomb logo
    Honeycomb

    Hosted, polished trace exploration with no infrastructure to run.

    57.2
  5. 5Grafana logo
    Grafana

    Tempo and Grafana give a widely supported open-source tracing stack.

    55.3

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Uptrace: common questions

Is Uptrace free?

Yes. Uptrace is free, open-source software that you can host yourself.

Is Uptrace open source?

Yes. The source code is on GitHub at uptrace/uptrace. You can also run it on your own server.

What platforms does Uptrace run on?

Uptrace is available for Web and Self-hosted.

What are the best alternatives to Uptrace?

The highest-ranked Uptrace alternatives right now are SigNoz, Jaeger and OpenObserve. See the full ranked list for pricing, platforms and verified facts.

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