Tracekit vs Uptrace
Tracekit
tracekit.dev
Uptrace
uptrace.devSide by side
| Figure | Tracekit | Uptrace |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $24/mo | $39/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 6 |
| Spec score · Distributed Tracing Tools | 7.8 (#17) | 8.6 (#5) |
| Integrations | Alerting supports Slack, Discord, Teams, PagerDuty, and OpsGenie; the Growth plan lists all integrations, including OpsGenie, Teams, and PagerDuty. | Telemetry can arrive through OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Vector, Fluent Bit and CloudWatch, and Grafana can use Uptrace as Prometheus or Tempo data sources. |
| Privacy and security | Tracekit’s privacy policy states that it uses TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 at rest, role-based access controls, 24/7 security monitoring, and quarterly security assessments. | The privacy policy says data is encrypted in transit via SSL/TLS and database backups are encrypted, while most live database data is not encrypted at rest. |
| Product | Tracekit connects analytics, traces, session replay, LLM calls, alerts, GitHub pull requests, MCP, and dynamic logs to help developers investigate production issues. | Uptrace is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform that unifies traces, metrics, and logs. |
| SDKs | Tracekit lists backend SDKs for Go, Node.js, Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, and .NET, plus browser and framework SDKs including React, Vue, Angular, Next.js, and Nuxt. | Uptrace accepts any OpenTelemetry SDK and maintains distributions or integrations for languages including Go, Python, JavaScript, Java, PHP, Ruby, Rust and others. |
| Support | Support ranges from community support on Free to email support with a 6-hour response time on Starter and priority support with stated 3-hour or 1-hour response times on Growth and Pro. | The project directs users to Telegram, Slack and GitHub Discussions for help; paid editions add email, priority, fast-SLA or dedicated support. |
| Tracing | Tracekit provides OpenTelemetry-native distributed tracing across services, following request lifecycles from browser to database. | 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
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.