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Uptrace

FREEMIUM

Open source observability platform for modern applications

VG SCORE
8.5

Product Details

PricingFreemium
API✅ REST
Learning CurveModerate
Integrations8 available

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PROS & CONS

STRENGTHS

  • Excellent integration with the OpenTelemetry standard ecosystem.
  • User-friendly web UI for exploring traces, metrics, and logs.
  • Fully open-source core with a permissive Apache 2.0 license.

WEAKNESSES

  • The project and commercial support are newer and less established than major competitors.
  • Self-hosting the full platform requires significant operational overhead.

KEY FEATURES

Metrics Monitoring

Aggregates and monitors application and system performance metrics.

Log Management

Centralizes and correlates logs with traces for easier debugging.

OpenTelemetry Native

Built on OpenTelemetry for vendor-agnostic data collection.

Distributed Tracing

Collects and visualizes traces to track requests across services.

WHO IS Uptrace BEST FOR?

Software development teams building microservices

They require an integrated, open-source platform to trace requests across services and understand system behavior.

DevOps and SRE teams

They need to monitor distributed systems and troubleshoot performance issues with detailed traces and metrics.

INTEGRATIONS

JaegerKubernetesDockerPostgreSQLGrafanaOpenTelemetryPrometheusClickHouse

TECHNICAL DETAILS

LEARNING CURVE
MODERATE — FEW HOURS
API

REST

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DOSSIER

LAST VERIFIED MAR 23, 2026

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PRICING MODEL

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Software development teams building microservicesDevOps and SRE teams

FEATURES

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