Maple vs Uptrace
Maple
maple.dev
Uptrace
uptrace.devSide by side
| Figure | Maple | Uptrace |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $39/mo | $39/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 6 |
| Spec score · Observability Platforms | 8.2 (#15) | 8.6 (#7) |
| Integrations | The pricing page lists SDKs and guides for Effect, Node.js, Next.js, Python, Go, Rust, Java, C#, Kotlin, and Laravel, plus Cloudflare, PlanetScale, GitHub, WarpStream, and Hazel integrations. | Telemetry can arrive through OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Vector, Fluent Bit and CloudWatch, and Grafana can use Uptrace as Prometheus or Tempo data sources. |
| Metrics | Maple provides metric exploration, dashboards, service maps, and alerting for metrics sent through its telemetry pipeline. | Uptrace offers prebuilt infrastructure and application dashboards plus interactive metric exploration with PromQL-compatible queries. |
| Product | Maple is an OpenTelemetry observability platform for distributed systems that ingests traces, logs, and metrics and stores them in ClickHouse. | Uptrace is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform that unifies traces, metrics, and logs. |
| Self-hosting | The source is published under FSL-1.1, with each release converting to Apache 2.0 after two years, and Maple can be self-hosted on infrastructure the customer operates. | A self-hosted installation runs the Uptrace binary with ClickHouse for telemetry, PostgreSQL for metadata and Redis for caching and background jobs. |
| Support | The pricing page includes a private support channel with Startup and priority support for Enterprise. | The project directs users to Telegram, Slack and GitHub Discussions for help; paid editions add email, priority, fast-SLA or dedicated support. |
| Tracing | Distributed traces show request spans and can be correlated with logs and service data. | Trace views provide waterfalls, cross-service timelines, operation filtering, latency percentiles and automatic grouping of similar errors. |
Plans
Uptrace
- CommunityFree
- Uptrace CloudFree
- Starter$39 a month
- Team$199 a month
- Business$499 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Maple
Maple is an OpenTelemetry observability platform for distributed systems. It ingests traces, logs, and metrics and stores them in ClickHouse. Teams can inspect request spans, relate traces to logs and service data, search structured logs by severity, service, or attribute, and open a trace from a log. Metric tools include exploration, dashboards, service maps, and alerting. Browser session replay records clicks, routes, console lines, and failed requests, linking sessions to traces with a shared ID. Alerts can route to Slack, PagerDuty, Discord, Telegram, email, webhooks, and Hazel. A hosted MCP server and documented REST API support automation for telemetry search, error triage, dashboards, and alert rules. Maple offers cloud, self-hosted, and local options; Maple Local runs ingestion, an embedded database, query API, and dashboard in one binary without an account or cloud service. Self-hosted source is FSL-1.1 and converts to Apache 2.0 after two years. Startup costs $39 per month and includes 30-day retention. Maple Cloud offers US and EU regions, but the selected region cannot later be changed.
Uptrace
Uptrace is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform that unifies traces, metrics and logs. It provides UQL for querying spans and logs and a PromQL-compatible engine for metrics. Dashboards can combine spans, events, logs and metrics, configured in the UI or YAML. Metric and error monitors can send notifications through email, Slack, PagerDuty and other channels. Uptrace lists Grafana integration as a Prometheus and Tempo data source and includes a built-in MCP server for AI assistants. It offers cloud and self-hosted deployment, with Docker, Ansible and Kubernetes installation options; precompiled binaries are listed for Linux, macOS and Windows. Uptrace Cloud retains data for four weeks by default, with cold storage options for up to 100 weeks. The free Cloud plan includes 50 GB per month and 5,000 timeseries per month, while Community is free with unlimited usage and 14 days of retention. Paid plans start at $39 a month. The privacy policy says data in transit and database backups are encrypted, but most live database data is not encrypted at rest.