Uptrace
OpenTelemetry-native observability platform for traces, metrics, and logs
Founded
2021
Starting Price
0
Category
Monitoring & Observability
Last updated March 23, 2026
About Uptrace
Uptrace is an open-source APM and observability platform built natively on OpenTelemetry and powered by ClickHouse. It unifies distributed traces, metrics, and logs in a single system with rich dashboards, service maps, alerting, and a powerful query language for fast root cause analysis.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Truly open-source with no feature restrictions on the self-hosted edition
- Dramatically lower cost than competitors like Datadog and Splunk at $0.10-0.15/GB vs $2.30+/GB
- OpenTelemetry-native with seamless OTLP integration and no vendor lock-in
- Exceptional performance processing billions of spans on a single server with outstanding compression
- Unified traces, metrics, and logs in one platform with cross-signal correlation
Key Features
Distributed Tracing
Track requests across microservices with OpenTelemetry-native distributed tracing, processing over 10K spans per second on a single core.
Metrics Monitoring
Ingest and visualize metrics from OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and other sources with support for active timeseries tracking and pre-aggregation.
Log Management
Collect and analyze logs from FluentBit, Vector, CloudWatch, and more alongside traces and metrics for unified observability.
Rich Dashboards & Service Maps
Visualize application topology and dependencies with auto-generated service maps and customizable dashboards.
Alerting & Notifications
Set up alerts with notifications via email, Slack, Telegram, webhooks, and other integrations for proactive incident response.
Powerful Query Language
Analyze telemetry data with a flexible query language designed for fast analytical queries powered by ClickHouse.
SSO & Enterprise Security
Enterprise-grade authentication with OIDC and SAML Single Sign-On support for secure team access management.
Pricing
Community
0/month
- Self-hosted deployment
- All core features included
- Traces, metrics, and logs
- No feature limits
- Community support
Best For
Microservices Monitoring
Track requests across distributed microservices architectures with end-to-end distributed tracing and automatic service dependency mapping.
Cost-Effective Observability
Replace expensive commercial APM tools like Datadog or Splunk with Uptrace's open-source platform at a fraction of the cost while maintaining full observability coverage.
Self-Hosted Data Sovereignty
Deploy on-premises for organizations with strict data compliance requirements that need full control over telemetry data and infrastructure.
OpenTelemetry-First Teams
Ideal backend for teams already invested in OpenTelemetry instrumentation who want a native OTLP-compatible observability platform without vendor lock-in.
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