SigNoz vs OpenTelemetry
A side-by-side comparison of two open-source tools to help you choose the right one.
| Feature | ||
|---|---|---|
| Summary | Open-source observability in one app. | Vendor-neutral observability for every stack. |
| GitHub stars | 23K | 5.4K |
| License | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Language | Go | Go |
| Pricing | Free & Open Source | Free & Open Source |
| Self-hostable | ||
| Replaces | Datadog, New Relic | Datadog, New Relic |
| Rating | 4.5 / 5 | 4.8 / 5 |
SigNoz features
- Metrics, traces, and logs together
- OpenTelemetry-native ingestion
- Application performance monitoring
- Custom dashboards and alerts
- Self-host to avoid per-host fees
OpenTelemetry features
- Unified SDKs for traces, metrics, and logs in 11+ languages
- OpenTelemetry Collector — a vendor-agnostic pipeline daemon
- Auto-instrumentation for popular frameworks (Express, Spring, Django…)
- Exporters for Prometheus, Jaeger, Zipkin, Grafana LGTM, and 50+ backends
- W3C-standard trace context propagation across services