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| Decision point | What SigNoz states |
|---|---|
Deployment | SigNoz Cloud (fully managed); Enterprise Cloud, BYOC or Enterprise Self-Hosted; or free open-source Community SigNoz in your own infrastructure with Docker, Kubernetes or Linux (Foundry is also listed for self-hosting) |
Trial | SigNoz Cloud: 30-day free trial, no credit card required |
Querying | Query Builder, PromQL or ClickHouse SQL on a columnar datastore built for high-cardinality observability data |
Data location | SigNoz Cloud data centers in the US, EU and India; Self-Hosted SigNoz can run in your own cloud |
Compliance | Teams lists SOC2 Type II and HIPAA compliance; Enterprise lists HIPAA and BAA options for eligible SigNoz Cloud contracts |
Cost controls | SigNoz Cloud: data ingestion limits, plus ingestion controls to drop noisy telemetry before it is stored |
Our take
If your services already emit OpenTelemetry data and you want logs, metrics and traces in one place, billed on telemetry volume rather than hosts or seats, SigNoz is a strong fit. Pick the free Community edition only if you have people to run it; otherwise budget for SigNoz Cloud.
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Where it stands out
Correlated signals. You can move from a latency spike or service chart to the related traces, logs, infrastructure metrics and exceptions without switching tools.
Portable instrumentation. SigNoz uses open standards instead of vendor SDKs, and SigNoz Cloud supports any language or framework that OpenTelemetry supports. Instrumentation stays portable as your stack changes.
No seat or host math. SigNoz Cloud has no user-based pricing, no host-based pricing and no special pricing for custom metrics. Autoscaling nodes or adding on-call engineers does not by itself change the bill.
Kubernetes coverage. The SigNoz Helm chart can collect cluster metrics, logs and traces, and SigNoz monitors clusters, pods, nodes, workloads and host CPU, memory, disk and network.
Agent workflows. The SigNoz MCP server brings telemetry into coding agents. Noz, an AI teammate that investigates incidents, tunes alerts and builds dashboards, is available only on SigNoz Cloud.
Beyond backend APM. The pricing page feature list includes LLM observability with OpenTelemetry, CI/CD observability with DORA metrics, Web Vitals monitoring and mobile app monitoring for iOS, Android and Flutter.
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Trade-offs to weigh
Free to license, not free to run. Community SigNoz is installed and managed by you; SigNoz suggests it when you have DevOps expertise and want full control. Even with Enterprise self-hosted support, your team operates infrastructure, storage, scaling, upgrades and backups.
Some features need Cloud. SigNoz says features such as SSO and SAML support are exclusive to the SigNoz Cloud offering. Check this before choosing the self-hosted route.
The bill follows telemetry volume. SigNoz's own example: 10,000 time series sending data every 30s produce 20,000 samples per minute, around 864 mn samples per month, which would cost 86.4 USD/month. SigNoz says cost can be estimated from expected logs, traces, metrics volume and retention.
Dedicated or in-your-cloud hosting means Enterprise. SigNoz points teams that want dedicated environments or bring-your-own-cloud, or enterprise support for a self-hosted install, to Enterprise rather than Teams; see the pricing table for its entry price.
Pricing and plan conditions
SigNoz Cloud Teams has a $49/month minimum that includes $49 of usage, for example 163 GB of logs or traces, or 490 mn metric samples. Above that, you pay only for what exceeds $49: $0.30/GB for logs and traces and $0.10 per million metric samples. Logs are priced per GB ingested, with retention options from 15 days to 1 year; metrics have retention options from 1 to 13 months. Support for migrating Datadog dashboards is listed for spends above $999.
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| Plan | Published price | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
Self-Hosted SigNoz (Community) | Free open-source | Install and manage yourself, in your own infrastructure |
SigNoz Cloud (Teams) | Starts from $49/month, including $49 of usage | Access to all features; any mix of logs, traces and metrics; MCP Server and Noz; unlimited teammates and any number of hosts; support via in-product chat, email and Slack |
SigNoz Cloud for Startups | $19/month for the first 12 months instead of $49/month | Includes $19 of telemetry usage; for eligible startups less than 3 years old, with fewer than 30 employees and less than $6 million raised |
Enterprise | Custom, starts at $4000/month | Choice of SigNoz Cloud Dedicated (includes monthly ingestion usage till $4000), BYOC managed by SigNoz, or Self-Hosted with enterprise support; volume discounts and annual contracts; dedicated Slack, email and in-product support; guided migration support; team training; SLA |
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Alternatives to SigNoz
The reviewed substitutes for SigNoz among the observability platforms, and what would make each one the better answer.
Direct alternatives
Reviewed substitutes: products bought for the same job, where a team picks one.
- Honeycomb
- Distributed tracing and fast debugging of production code are what Honeycomb and SigNoz offer. SigNoz is open source and OpenTelemetry-native, with APM, logs, metrics and traces that can run on a team's own infrastructure, while Honeycomb is a commercial hosted service built on its own columnar store for fast queries.Applies to: Choosing between these two for the apm observability decision.
- Observe
- Observe and SigNoz bring logs, metrics and traces into one product for troubleshooting. SigNoz is open source, OpenTelemetry-native and can run on a team's own infrastructure, while Observe is a commercial service built on a data lake and context graph, with an AI SRE for investigations.Applies to: Choosing between these two for the apm observability decision.
- Grafana Cloud
- Grafana Cloud and SigNoz both build on open-source software to track metrics, logs and traces. SigNoz is one OpenTelemetry-native application that a team can self-host or run in SigNoz's cloud, while Grafana Cloud is a fully managed service that joins several open-source projects behind Grafana dashboards.Applies to: Choosing between these two for the apm observability decision.
- Uptrace
- SigNoz and Uptrace are both open-source, OpenTelemetry-native platforms for traces, metrics and logs that store data in ClickHouse. SigNoz offers a full application with dashboards, alerts and a managed cloud, while Uptrace is a compact single-binary tool that a team can self-host or use as a cloud service.Applies to: Choosing the observability backend that will receive OpenTelemetry data and carry on-call.
- AppDynamics
- SigNoz and AppDynamics both deliver APM, traces and alerts for business applications. SigNoz is an open-source, OpenTelemetry-native tool that avoids proprietary agents and can be self-hosted, while AppDynamics is Cisco's commercial platform with its own agents and business transaction tracing.Applies to: Choosing between these two for the apm observability decision.
Other approaches
A different approach to the same problem. Each substitutes only for the workload named beside it.
- Datadog
- Datadog is used rather than SigNoz for cloud-scale Dev and Ops monitoring workloads spanning infrastructure, applications, and logs. We recommend Datadog over SigNoz for teams that need a monitoring service designed around cloud-scale infrastructure and application operations.
- Dynatrace
- We recommend Dynatrace over SigNoz for organizations evaluating observability, automation, and application security as one platform decision.
- Elastic Observability
- Elastic Observability is chosen instead of SigNoz for telemetry-retention and AI-assisted troubleshooting workloads. We recommend Elastic Observability over SigNoz for teams whose evaluation centers on open-source observability with an explicit store-more, troubleshoot-faster operating model.
- New Relic
- New Relic is preferred over SigNoz for SaaS-managed web and mobile APM workloads across cloud and datacenter environments. We recommend New Relic over SigNoz when managed application diagnostics across mixed application environments matter more than operating an OpenTelemetry-native platform yourself.
- Grafana Loki
- Loki keeps the log bodies out of the index and in object storage, which is what makes it cheap at volume and what makes full-text search slower. The fork here is whether logs live in a dedicated store or inside a platform that already holds the rest of the telemetry. SigNoz is the open-source, self-hostable observability platform, so it competes with Loki on Loki's own ground -- no licence cost, run it yourself -- and differs in scope: SigNoz wants to be traces, metrics and logs in one product, Loki wants to be the log store in a Grafana stack that already has Prometheus for metrics.