Distributed Tracing Tools

Alternatives to Hypertrace

The tools Specifiction weighs against Hypertrace, from its list of distributed tracing tools, each with its plans, platforms and spec score.

01 Grafana Cloud Application Observability
It suits software engineers who need to detect application anomalies and investigate root causes using service health and telemetry signals.

From $0.03/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
9.2 Visit Specs
02 AWS X-Ray
X-Ray suits teams that need request tracing across application services and AWS resources.

Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
9.0 Visit Specs
03 Honeycomb
The Free plan is described for testing and individual projects; Pro is aimed at teams with a production application.

From $150/mo Free plan Web · iOS · Android · API
8.6 Visit Specs
04 Uptrace
Uptrace offers a self-hosted Community edition described for individuals, Starter for side projects, Team as a production default and Business for reliability and compliance.

From $39/mo Free plan Open source Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
8.6 Visit Specs
05 AppSignal
AppSignal suits developers and teams that need cloud monitoring across errors, performance, logs, and traces.

From $23.25/mo Free plan Web · API
8.5 Visit Specs
06 Apache SkyWalking
SkyWalking suits teams that want a self-hosted view of cloud-native services and AI workload telemetry.

Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
8.4 Visit Specs
07 Tencent Cloud Application Performance Management
It suits teams diagnosing performance and errors across microservices and other application architectures.

Free trial Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted
8.4 Visit Specs
08 Pinpoint
Free plan Web · Windows · Self-hosted
8.2 Visit Specs
09 SigNoz
SigNoz suits engineering teams monitoring applications and infrastructure across logs, metrics, traces, and exceptions.

From $19/mo Free plan Web · iOS · Android · API
8.1 Visit Specs
10 Jaeger
It suits teams operating distributed systems that can deploy and manage self-hosted tracing infrastructure.

Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
8.0 Visit Specs
11 Baselime
Free plan Web · API
7.9 Visit Specs
12 SolarWinds Observability
From $5/mo Free trial Web · Windows · Linux · API
7.9 Visit Specs
13 Google Cloud Trace
From $0.20/mo Web · Linux · API
7.8 Visit Specs
14 Grafana Cloud Traces
Free plan Web · API
7.8 Visit Specs
15 Hubble
Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
7.8 Visit Specs
16 Tracekit
From $24/mo Free plan Web · API
7.8 Visit Specs
17 Tracetest
It is aimed at developers and QA engineers building distributed microservice systems, including teams using Go, Rust, Node.js, or Python.

Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
7.8 Visit Specs
18 Sematext Tracing
It suits teams monitoring instrumented microservices that want trace search, service maps, and latency or error alerts.

Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
7.7 Visit Specs
19 DataBuff
Web · API · Self-hosted
7.6 Visit Specs
20 Pixie
Pixie suits developers who need observability and debugging for supported Kubernetes environments and can run Linux nodes.

Free plan Web · Linux · Self-hosted
7.6 Visit Specs
21 Sentry Performance
Sentry Performance suits developer-focused teams diagnosing application slowdowns or tracing latency and errors across services.

Free plan Web · iOS · Android · API
7.6 Visit Specs
22 Grafana Alerting
From $0.03/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
7.5 Visit Specs
23 OpenZipkin
Free plan Web · Self-hosted
7.4 Visit Specs
24 Alibaba Cloud Managed Service for OpenTelemetry
From $0.06/mo Web
7.0 Visit Specs
25 Elastic APM
From $99/mo Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
7.0 Visit Specs
26 IBM Instana Observability
From $0.03/mo Free plan Web · Linux
7.0 Visit Specs
27 Grafana Tempo
Linux
5.8 Visit Specs
28 Huawei Cloud Application Performance Management
Web
5.6 Visit Specs
29 Oracle Cloud Observability and Management Platform
Web
5.6 Visit Specs
30 Splunk APM
Web
5.3 Visit Specs

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