Uptrace

Founded by Vladimir Mihailenco in 2020

Monitor distributed app traces, metrics, and logs using OpenTelemetry

Cost

Free Tier

Rating

★ People love it

Time to value

Quick Setup (< 1 hour)

You can use Uptrace to collect and analyze traces, metrics, and logs from your applications using OpenTelemetry. It gives you a single dashboard showing service dependencies, error rates, latency percentiles, and slow endpoints. Built on ClickHouse, it handles billions of spans per day. You can self-host it for free, deploy on Uptrace Cloud, or run it on-premises for compliance. It ingests data from Prometheus, FluentBit, CloudWatch, and other sources without locking you into a vendor.

What Uptrace does

View a service dependency graph showing bottlenecks across all servicesSet a monthly data ingestion cap to control observability spendingConfigure tail-based sampling to keep only important tracesQuery high-cardinality attributes like user IDs or request IDs without slowdownsExport telemetry data to S3 or cold storage for long-term retention up to 100 weeksInstrument applications automatically using OpenTelemetry SDK with minimal code changesReceive budget alerts before monthly data usage limits are reachedDeploy Uptrace using Docker, Kubernetes, or Ansible automation scriptsUnified view of traces, metrics, and logs in one dashboardBuilt on ClickHouse for handling billions of spans per day without slowing downSelf-host for free with no feature limits via Community EditionBilling by data size in GB rather than per seat or per span countConfigurable data sampling to reduce costs, with dropped data charged at $0.01 per GBHigh-cardinality attribute support without query performance degradationOTel Arrow protocol compression cutting bandwidth by 30-70%Monthly spending cap to prevent unexpected billing spikes