SigNoz Has a Free APM Platform — Open-Source DataDog Alternative with OpenTelemetry

SigNoz is an open-source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) platform built on OpenTelemetry. What You Get for Free Distributed tracing — trace requests across microservices Metrics — application and infrastructure metrics Log management — centralized log collection and analysis Dashboards — customizable dashboards with multiple chart types Alerts — threshold and anomaly-based alerting Service maps — visualize service dependencies Error tracking — aggregate and track errors OpenTelemetry native — no vendor SDK needed ClickHouse backend — fast queries on large datasets Self-hosted — free, unlimited data Quick Start # Docker Compose git clone -b main https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz.git cd signoz/deploy docker compose up -d # Access at http://localhost:3301 # Instrument your app with OpenTelemetry SDK → data flows in Why Teams Choose It Over DataDog DataDog charges per host ($15-23/host/mo) + per GB: SigNoz is free — self-hosted, no per-host pricing OpenTelemetry native — no vendor