Uptrace unifies traces, metrics, and logs on OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse. See its pricing, features, and how it compares to Datadog and Grafana.
Uptrace is an open-source observability and application performance monitoring platform that brings traces, metrics, and logs together in one dashboard, built specifically around the OpenTelemetry standard so teams avoid vendor lock-in to a proprietary agent.
Founded in 2021 and based in Chisinau, Moldova, Uptrace stores telemetry data in ClickHouse, a fast columnar database, which allows it to handle very high-cardinality attributes and large data volumes at a lower cost than many closed-source APM vendors.
Uptrace provides distributed tracing, metrics, and log correlation in a single unified view, along with a service graph that visualizes dependencies between services and surfaces request rate, error rate, and latency (RED metrics). It ingests data natively from OpenTelemetry SDKs and collectors, plus Prometheus, Vector, FluentBit, and AWS CloudWatch.
An MCP server integration lets AI assistants such as Claude query and summarize telemetry data conversationally. Deployment is flexible, running as a managed cloud service or self-hosted via Docker, Kubernetes, or Ansible, with the self-hosted Community Edition released under the AGPL-3.0 open-source license.
Uptrace Cloud includes 50GB of traces, logs, and metrics plus 5,000 metric timeseries free every month. Beyond that, billing is usage-based: traces and logs are charged per gigabyte ingested (starting around $0.075-$0.10/GB with volume discounts as usage scales) and metrics are billed per million datapoints, with extended retention priced separately per gigabyte-month or timeseries-month.
There are no per-seat, per-host, or per-service fees, and organizations can self-host the Community Edition for free with no feature restrictions, or pay for a licensed on-premises deployment with dedicated support.
Yes, the Uptrace Community Edition is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license and free to self-host with no feature limits.
Uptrace stores telemetry data in ClickHouse, a columnar database chosen for fast queries over high-cardinality data.
Yes, Uptrace is built natively around the OpenTelemetry standard for collecting traces, metrics, and logs.
Uptrace Cloud includes 50GB of data and 5,000 timeseries free per month, then bills usage-based per gigabyte and per million metric datapoints.
Yes, the Community Edition can be self-hosted for free via Docker, Kubernetes, or Ansible with no feature restrictions.
No, Uptrace includes unlimited users, services, and hosts on every plan.
Uptrace is commonly compared to Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, and Grafana/Tempo/Loki stacks as a lower-cost, open-source observability option.
Uptrace was founded in 2021 and is based in Chisinau, Moldova.