Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic

• signoz

  310 16,886 9.9 TypeScript

  SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. 🔥 🖥. 👉 Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool

  

Is there any introduction to all the services that are included in the docker-compose file [1]?

I wanted to give signoz a try, but the sheer amount of services attached discouraged me, especially as I have to reconfigure them all to work with my setup. (Don't run them directly on the host, instead in a separated network, put the network interface behind traefik, figure out which access they need, provide all the configuration in a nice way without having to clone the full repo just to have the configuration files.)

[1] https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/blob/develop/deploy/docker/...

• jaeger

  94 19,370 9.7 Go

  CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

  

Not associated with the project but a quick look suggests: a database (clickhouse), alertmanager, query-service, frontend are signoz components, otel* and hotrod are for distributed tracing. Otel stands for open telemetry (https://opentelemetry.io/), hotrod is a tracing demo app from jaeger: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/tree/main/examples/h....

Without thinking too much about it, I assume that: hotrod is a demo data source pushing traces to the otel collector, which stores data in clickhouse. Frontend uses the query service to fetch the data.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• opentelemetry-go

  126 4,765 9.6 Go

  OpenTelemetry Go API and SDK

  

Not associated with the project but a quick look suggests: a database (clickhouse), alertmanager, query-service, frontend are signoz components, otel* and hotrod are for distributed tracing. Otel stands for open telemetry (https://opentelemetry.io/), hotrod is a tracing demo app from jaeger: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/tree/main/examples/h....

Without thinking too much about it, I assume that: hotrod is a demo data source pushing traces to the otel collector, which stores data in clickhouse. Frontend uses the query service to fetch the data.

• promscale

  18 1,330 0.0 Go

  Discontinued [DEPRECATED] Promscale is a unified metric and trace observability backend for Prometheus, Jaeger and OpenTelemetry built on PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB.

  

They say:

> if you want to have a seamless experience between metrics and traces, then current experience of stitching together Prometheus & Jaeger is not great.

But I wonder if using Promscale https://github.com/timescale/promscale would make Prometheus & Jaeger not such a big problem as SigNoz imply.

Promscale readme:

> Promscale is a unified metric and trace observability backend for Prometheus, Jaeger and OpenTelemetry built on PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB.

Either way, SigNoz seems interesting indeed. And am glad to see that SigNoz supports OpenTelemetry.

• uptrace

  29 2,874 9.3 Go

  Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs

  

Curious how it compares to https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace

And are there any other similar projects.

• posthog-foss

  2 200 10.0 Python

  PostHog FOSS is a read-only mirror of PostHog, with all proprietary code removed. NOTE: This repo is synced automatically from the main PostHog repo. Please raise any issues and PRs there.

  

Yeah, understand the use cases you are pointing to. We are planning to introduce a foss only version of the product for users who know that they won't be need the enterprise version. It will not have any enterprise bits, and you could just keep using it as you want. something similar to this - https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-foss

Suggest a related project