Observability / APM
Uptrace
Uptrace
Lightweight OpenTelemetry-native APM centred on distributed tracing (spans, service maps) on a ClickHouse backend — for teams wanting a simple OTel trace store.
- Category
- Observability / APM
- License
- Open core
- Deployment
- SaaS or self-hosted
- Cost
- Free
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Moderate
- Maturity
- Emerging
- Popularity
- ≈4.2k GitHub stars
The catch
Smaller/leaner project — fine for tracing + basic metrics/logs, but not a full enterprise suite; community size and feature depth trail SigNoz.
Monitors
MetricsLogsTracesK8s
Protocols
OTLP
Capabilities
Distributed tracingDashboardsAlerting
Built for
SRE / DevOpsDevelopers