What is Uptrace?
Uptrace is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform combining distributed tracing, metrics and logs with service graphs, error tracking and latency monitoring. The Community Edition is open source and free to self-host with no built-in limits; a hosted Uptrace Cloud option bills by ingested GB and active timeseries.
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Sources checked 27 September 2026: official website, GitHub repository.
Key capabilities
- Unified telemetry: traces, metrics and logs in one OpenTelemetry-native backend.
- Self-hosted Community Edition: open source, free to run with no built-in limits.
- Uptrace Cloud: managed option billed by ingested GB and active timeseries, no per-seat pricing.
Validate OpenTelemetry SDK/collector compatibility with your stack, alerting and service-graph coverage, and whether self-hosting or the metered cloud plan better fits your data-retention and support needs.
Shortlist Uptrace when you want an OpenTelemetry-first alternative to Datadog or New Relic that can be fully self-hosted at no license cost, or run as a usage-based cloud service with no per-seat pricing. Confirm current ingestion limits and support coverage against your team's telemetry volume.
Because Uptrace is built directly on the OpenTelemetry standard rather than a proprietary agent, switching cost is lower if you later change observability vendors. Confirm current pricing tiers directly, since usage-based billing changes over time.
Technical details
- Access
- Web platform
- Source model
- Open source
- Founded
- 2021
- Pricing model
- Open source
- API
- Available
- Website
- uptrace.dev ↗
Official resources
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- Confirm current features, licensing and support terms with the publisher.
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