SigNoz
MonitoringAn observability platform built on OpenTelemetry that combines logs, metrics, traces, alerts and dashboards in one place.
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What the free edition leaves out
Scroll sideways to view all columns →The free edition is genuinely usable, but some team or enterprise features need a paid plan. “Not confirmed” means the official pages we read did not say, so we do not guess.
| Feature | Free edition | Details | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| SSO / SAML | Paid | The pricing table marks SSO as included in Community but SAML support as a cross there; SAML is a check for Cloud and Enterprise. | Source ↗ |
| Role-based access control | Paid | Fine-grained RBAC is a cross in Community and cloud Teams; the Enterprise self-hosted column shows it as beta. | Source ↗ |
| Audit logs | Not confirmed | Audit logs are a cross in Community and marked coming soon for Enterprise. | Source ↗ |
| Multi-user / teams | Not confirmed | Multi-tenancy is a cross in Community and marked coming soon for Enterprise; seat terms for self-hosted are not in the table. | Source ↗ |
| Backups and restore | Not confirmed | Backup is not mentioned in the pricing table. | Source ↗ |
| API access | Free | 'Access Data in SigNoz from Anywhere (via API keys)' is a check in Community. | Source ↗ |
| Support SLA | Paid | Community gets Slack community support; email support is a cross in Community, and an SLA with downtime developer pairing is Enterprise only. | Source ↗ |
Best for
Teams already using OpenTelemetry who want logs, metrics and traces in one self-hosted tool.
Why choose it over Datadog
The core is MIT licensed and the pricing table lists APM, traces, logs pipelines, dashboards, alerts, Kubernetes monitoring and API-key data access as included in the self-hosted Community edition.
Where it falls short
SAML, fine-grained RBAC and email support are not in Community, and audit logs and multi-tenancy are not available there. Some features listed on the pricing page, such as anomaly detection and single-click AWS integrations, are crosses in Community. The repository contains Enterprise-licensed code under ee/, and the README says its AI assistant Noz is available only on SigNoz Cloud. Running it means operating ClickHouse and needs at least 4GB of memory for Docker.
Open-source alternative to
- Datadog — SigNoz's own README calls it an open-source alternative to Datadog; it covers APM, logs and metrics.
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