SigNoz
92 · HealthyOpenTelemetry-native observability with logs, metrics and traces in one app.
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SigNoz
OpenTelemetry-native observability with logs, metrics and traces in one app.
Will it still be around?
Health 92/100 · Healthy
Activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness. Breakdown
Can a business use it freely?
Open source (permissive)
MIT (core) + commercial ee/ and cmd/enterprise/. Details
Alternative to
Savings proposal
A 25-host team on Datadog Infrastructure Pro + APM pays about $1,150 a month. Self-hosting SigNoz costs about $576 a month to run plus $2,880 to set up, so it pays for itself in month 6 and saves about $17,784 over three years.
List price: Datadog Infrastructure Pro + APM, billed annually. $15 per host for Infrastructure Pro plus $31 per host for APM. Logs and other products are extra. Count hosts, not people. Source, checked 2026-10-07.
Saved over 3 years
$17,784
Pays for itself
Month 6
Saved in year one
$4,008
Each month
$1,150 → $576
Show as a table
| Month | Datadog | Self-hosted | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | $0 | $2,880 | −$2,880 |
| Month 3 | $3,450 | $4,608 | −$1,158 |
| Month 6 | $6,900 | $6,336 | $564 |
| Month 9 | $10,350 | $8,064 | $2,286 |
| Month 12 | $13,800 | $9,792 | $4,008 |
| Month 18 | $20,700 | $13,248 | $7,452 |
| Month 24 | $27,600 | $16,704 | $10,896 |
| Month 30 | $34,500 | $20,160 | $14,340 |
| Month 36 | $41,400 | $23,616 | $17,784 |
Assumptions you can change
Self-hosting SigNoz usually means several services (analytics store, queues, search). Hours are for one engineer; the server cost is a typical cloud VPS with backups and grows with the number of people using it.
Not included: paid editions or features of SigNoz (see What's free?), large data migrations, and compliance work. All amounts in US dollars at list price; your negotiated price may differ.
Health score: 92/100
Activity45% weight
100/100
- Last commit today (100/100).
- 1948 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 50+ releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor30% weight
100/100
- Top contributor wrote 15% of the last 98 commits (past 12 months).
- 17 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness25% weight
68/100
- 74% of all issues are closed (1138 open, 3292 closed) (74/100).
- 19 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (63/100).
Score v2. How the health score works.
License
MIT (core) + commercial ee/ and cmd/enterprise/ · Open source (permissive)
Everything outside ee/ and cmd/enterprise/ is MIT. Enterprise code needs a paid license.
OSI-approved license with few conditions beyond keeping the copyright notice.
License text checked 2026-10-07: read it.
What's free?
Enterprise features many open-core projects keep for paid plans.
| Feature | Self-hosted, free? |
|---|---|
| SSO (SAML) | Unknown |
| SSO (OIDC) | Unknown |
| SCIM provisioning | Unknown |
| Audit logs | Unknown |
| Role-based access control | Unknown |
| Multi-tenancy | Unknown |
We haven't verified which of these features are free for this project yet.
GitHub metrics
| Stars | 32k | Forks | 2.5k |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | today | Commits, 12 months | 1.9k |
| Releases, 12 months | 50+ | Last release | 3 days ago |
| Contributors | 207 | Active authors | 17 in last 98 commits |
| Open issues | 1.1k | Closed issues | 3.3k |
Snapshot from 2026-10-08.