uptrace/uptrace

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Uptrace is an open-source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) platform that collects and visualizes OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs. It stores telemetry in ClickHouse (with PostgreSQL for metadata), provides dashboards, alerting, and a SQL-like query language, and can be self-hosted or used as a cloud service.

Use cases

• monitor distributed tracing across microservices
• self-host an OpenTelemetry backend for traces, metrics, and logs
• set up alerting and notifications for application errors and metrics
• replace Datadog or New Relic with a cheaper open-source APM
• visualize application performance with pre-built dashboards
• query spans and metrics with a PromQL-like language
• integrate Grafana with a Tempo/Prometheus-compatible datasource

When to choose

• you want a self-hosted, OpenTelemetry-native observability stack at lower cost than SaaS APMs
• you need unified traces, metrics, and logs in a single UI
• you already use ClickHouse and want efficient storage of large telemetry volumes
• you need Grafana compatibility and Prometheus-style metric queries

When to avoid

• you need a fully managed solution and don't want to operate ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, and Redis
• you require a permissive license for embedding or reselling (it is AGPL-3.0)
• your team is already standardized on another observability platform with deep ecosystem integrations

Facets

service · maturity active

monitoring tracing alerting logging self-hosted analytics monitoring microservices self-hosted cloud apm opentelemetry clickhouse distributed-tracing observability grafana prometheus vue devops linux docker web-server

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