Hypertrace

Spec sheet

What it does

Hypertrace is a real-time observability platform that turns distributed trace data into insights about production requests and network trends.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Purpose

Hypertrace is a real-time observability platform that turns distributed trace data into insights about production requests and network trends.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Deployment

Hypertrace can be deployed on Kubernetes with Helm charts or run locally with Docker Compose.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Support

The project points users to its Slack workspace and GitHub Discussions for questions and community help.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Dashboards

The Dashboard UI shows global health, including frequently called endpoints, services and backends.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Dashboards and analysis

The platform provides custom dashboards, real-time metrics aggregation, and path-based analysis.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Data formats

Hypertrace supports OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, and Zipkin trace formats.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Instrumentation agents

Hypertrace provides open-source OpenTelemetry-based agents for Java, Go, and Python.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Intended teams

The project describes infrastructure, service and deployment teams as users who can investigate overloads, failed requests and problems introduced by new versions.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

License limit

The Traceable Community License excludes using covered software to provide an online service that competes with Traceable products or services providing that software.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Licensing

Hypertrace Core and its data collection agents use Apache 2.0, while Community Edition includes components under the Traceable Community License.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Production deployment note

The project README says its hypertrace-ingester and hypertrace-service quick-start components are not supported for production because of scaling limitations and reliability issues.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Production limitation

The project says hypertrace-ingester and hypertrace-service are for local deployment and quick start and are not supported for production because of limitations and scaling reliability concerns.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Rollout monitoring

Teams can compare service and backend performance during upgrades and investigate whether a changed service is causing slow requests.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Root cause analysis

It can show the services, endpoints and backends involved in a failed request, including contextual errors, to help locate the cause.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Security update

The project says it upgraded dependent repositories to Log4j 2.17 after disclosing vulnerabilities in versions 2.15 and below, and recommends upgrading to v0.2.7 or current charts.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Service and backend health

Service owners can view endpoint health and latency with dependencies, while backend owners can inspect slow queries and trends.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Service graph

The Application Flow UI visualizes traced traffic across the network as a service graph.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Supported deployment platforms

The deployment documentation lists Docker Desktop, Minikube, MicroK8S, AWS EKS, GCP GKE, Azure AKS, Windows 10 and AWS AMI.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Trace analysis

Its Trace UI visualizes a request’s path through services and backends, including context, errors, and delays.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Trace formats

Hypertrace says it natively understands major trace formats including OpenTelemetry, Jaeger and Zipkin.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Trace sampling

Its documentation describes a native design for ingesting 100% of request traces without a sampling collector.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Trace views

Its Trace UI visualizes a request path through services and backends, including context, errors and delays.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.hypertrace.org

Who it is for

The product describes use cases for infrastructure, service, and deployment teams investigating service overload, failed requests, and changes between software versions.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• Distributed Tracing Tools#4 of 328.6
• Runtime Monitoring Software#11 of 568.6