# uptrace/uptrace

Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs

Repository: https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/uptrace
Homepage: https://uptrace.dev/get/hosted/open-source-apm
Language: Go
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: monitoring, opentelemetry, distributed-tracing, clickhouse, golang, performance-monitoring, tracing, apm, metrics, observability, application-monitoring, logs, self-hosted, vue
Last push: 2026-08-13T14:47:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 97, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1715, "days_push": 20, "days_rel": 20, "gap_med": 10.5, "n_releases_24m": 23}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4270, forks 215 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:40.857835+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, tracing, alerting, logging, self-hosted, analytics
- domain: monitoring, microservices
- platform: self-hosted, cloud
- tags: apm, opentelemetry, clickhouse, distributed-tracing, observability, grafana, prometheus, vue, devops, linux, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- uptrace/uptrace (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:40.857835+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:22:01.914651+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:40.857835+00:00, sha 6148bd7dba72)
  - homepage: https://uptrace.dev/get/hosted/open-source-apm (fetched 2026-08-29T09:11:35.541695+00:00, sha a979b5c0176c)
  - site_page: https://uptrace.dev/features (fetched 2026-08-29T09:11:35.551120+00:00, sha 9a059814b526)
  - site_page: https://uptrace.dev/get/hosted/install (fetched 2026-08-29T09:11:35.557124+00:00, sha 5d38db6ddf16)
  - site_page: https://uptrace.dev/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T09:11:35.554220+00:00, sha 01c4c8c48a84)
  - site_page: https://uptrace.dev/get (fetched 2026-08-29T09:11:35.559540+00:00, sha ab646a420a92)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.