Alternatives to Uptrace
Explore traces, metrics and logs collected through OpenTelemetry. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Uptrace
Explore traces, metrics and logs collected through OpenTelemetry.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Uptrace.
SigNoz
Open-source full-stack observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse.
SigNoz combines APM, logs, traces and metrics on OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse, and running its ClickHouse-backed stack yourself adds operational overhead.
OpenObserve
Collect logs, metrics and traces in a unified observability application.
OpenObserve collects logs, metrics and traces in one self-hosted AGPL-3.0 application, with hosted services and enterprise features priced separately.
HyperDX
Investigate application failures using linked logs, traces and related telemetry.
HyperDX links logs, traces and telemetry for investigating failures, is MIT licensed rather than AGPL-3.0, and can run on your own infrastructure.
Jaeger
Follow requests across services to investigate distributed-system latency.
Jaeger focuses only on distributed traces for investigating latency, licensed Apache-2.0, so metrics and logs need other tools.
Apache SkyWalking
Observe distributed applications through traces, metrics and related service information.
Apache SkyWalking offers application-performance views from traces and metrics under Apache-2.0, requiring deployed collectors and supported instrumentation.
Grafana Tempo
Store and query distributed traces with a dedicated tracing back end.
Grafana Tempo is a dedicated trace back end using object storage, integrating with Grafana, and needs a separate visualization setup for exploring data.
Zipkin
Collect trace timing data to troubleshoot service-to-service latency.
Zipkin collects and looks up trace timing data for service-to-service latency under Apache-2.0, without Uptrace's metrics and logs views.
Coroot
Investigate application behavior using automatically collected observability data.
Coroot combines service views with metrics and traces using eBPF-based collection where supported, which needs compatible Linux hosts and privileges.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Uptrace as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
New Relic
A hosted observability platform for application performance, infrastructure, logs and alerting, with a free tier.
Uptrace is an AGPL-3.0 self-hosted tool for exploring OpenTelemetry traces, metrics and logs, requiring your own instrumentation and storage.
Pinpoint
Trace application requests across distributed services.
Uptrace explores traces, metrics and logs collected through OpenTelemetry under AGPL-3.0, and requires telemetry instrumentation and a supported storage setup.
Seq
A self-hosted server for searching, analysing and alerting on structured logs, traces and metrics.
Uptrace is AGPL-licensed and explores traces, metrics and logs collected through OpenTelemetry, with self-hosted deployment on supported storage.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
OpenTelemetry Collector
Receive, process and export telemetry through a vendor-neutral collector.
Grafana
Dashboard and visualization front end for metrics, logs and traces.
Prometheus
Metrics database that scrapes targets and evaluates alerting rules.
Grafana Loki
Collect and query application logs using label-based indexing.
