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About SigNoz
SigNoz is an open-source application performance monitoring (APM) and observability platform providing unified metrics, distributed traces, and logs in a single application — built natively on OpenTelemetry standards and deployable via self-hosted Docker/Kubernetes or SigNoz Cloud, offering teams full ownership of their observability data without vendor lock-in or per-seat/per-GB pricing that makes Datadog and New Relic expensive at scale. Founded and backed by Y Combinator with $6.5 million raised, SigNoz has grown to 19,000+ GitHub stars and is used by teams at Bands, Outplay, and hundreds of engineering organizations globally as the open-source Datadog alternative.
Business Model & Competitive Advantage
SigNoz's OpenTelemetry-native architecture is the core technical differentiator: rather than proprietary agents that create vendor lock-in, SigNoz instruments applications using OpenTelemetry SDKs — the CNCF standard now adopted by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and most major cloud providers. Teams instrument once with OpenTelemetry and can switch between SigNoz, Jaeger, Tempo, or cloud vendor APM without re-instrumentation. ClickHouse (SigNoz's storage layer) enables columnar analytics on trace and log data at speeds that traditional time-series databases cannot match — query 1 million traces for slow endpoints or error patterns in sub-second response times. The unified correlation layer links metrics anomalies, traces for the affected service, and logs from the time window in a single investigation workflow.
Competitive Landscape 2025–2026
In 2025, SigNoz competes in the APM and observability market with Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG, dominant commercial APM), Grafana (open-source but commercial cloud, $350M raised), and Jaeger/Prometheus (open-source but without unified UI) for developer and DevOps observability tool adoption. Datadog's pricing model (per host, per GB of logs, per million trace spans) creates predictable but high costs as engineering teams scale — SigNoz positions as the alternative that eliminates per-unit pricing for teams with significant observability data volume. The 2025 strategy focuses on SigNoz Cloud managed service growth (for teams that want open-source without self-hosting complexity), building AI-powered anomaly detection and root cause analysis, and expanding the community through OpenTelemetry education content.
Recent Activity
View all →Instrument a Bun app built with ElysiaJS using OpenTelemetry. Send request traces, HTTP metrics, and runtime metrics to SigNoz. Includes plain Bun.serve.
Monitor Bun and ElysiaJS apps with a ready-made SigNoz dashboard for request rate, latency, errors, event loop delay, CPU, and heap memory.
Learn why AI infrastructure and agentic software teams choose SigNoz for observability across logs, metrics, traces, and agent-driven workflows.
Monitor LLM apps in SigNoz with the AI Observability dashboard. Track cost, token usage, latency, errors, TTFT, and tool calls by model and service.
Explore LLM and AI trace data in SigNoz with the AI Observability Explorer. Query AI traces and spans, chart them over time, and export table results.
Manage LLM model pricing rules in SigNoz AI Observability. Search, filter, and set per-million token costs, and price unrecognized models.
Check which OpenTelemetry GenAI span attributes the SigNoz AI Observability dashboard and filters need, how SigNoz counts calls, and where cost comes from.
Remap source span and resource attributes to SigNoz GenAI fields in AI Observability. Group rules by condition, then test them against sample spans.
Collect SNMP metrics from firewalls, routers, and switches with the OpenTelemetry Collector snmp receiver, map OIDs to metrics, and view them in SigNoz.
Migrate from the deprecated v1 notification channel API endpoints to the v2 replacements, including the new config schema, authorization, and list changes.
Learn how to collect syslog and rsyslog logs in SigNoz, configure receivers, and troubleshoot log forwarding.
Install the SigNoz Operator on Kubernetes and manage SigNoz resources, from dashboards and alerts to users and SSO, as Kubernetes custom resources.
Key Differentiators
Emerging Innovator
SigNoz is an emerging player bringing innovative solutions to the IT Operations & Observability market.
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