Uptrace
The Chisinau-based developer of an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform unifying traces, metrics, and logs through EU-hosted and self-hosted editions.
Operating headquarters
Chisinau, MDFounded
2021The Chisinau-based developer of an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform unifying traces, metrics, and logs through EU-hosted and self-hosted editions.
Uptrace competes on metering, billing telemetry ingestion by usage without per-seat or per-host fees, and ships a free self-hosted Community Edition that lowers the cost of adoption. Its OpenTelemetry-first architecture reads instrumentation that teams already emit, so adopting or leaving the platform does not require re-instrumentation.
The company publishes first-party cost comparisons against Datadog and New Relic and identifies those figures as its own estimates, and its open-source distribution footprint included go-redis at 22.3k GitHub stars, bun at 4,983 stars, and uptrace at 4.3k stars as of late 2026.
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Uptrace runs a product-led, self-serve motion: developers start on the free 50 GB monthly tier, install the platform from public repositories, and upgrade to paid cloud plans through a Paddle checkout, with a founder-booked demo lane available for enterprise conversations.
Paid reach is limited: the Google Ads Transparency Center returned no advertisements for uptrace.dev and the Meta Ad Library showed no active ads in the United States as of October 2026, with no creator or affiliate program page on the site. Reach rests on open-source community channels, including GitHub repositories, Telegram and Slack groups, and a first-party search-optimization content estate, while the split between acquisition channels and revenue is undisclosed.
Uptrace is privately held and bootstrapped, with no recorded outside funding rounds, and competes against observability suites with far larger commercial footprints, including Datadog, New Relic, Grafana Cloud, Dynatrace, and Elastic.
The OpenTelemetry-native segment adds challengers such as SigNoz, Dash0, OpenObserve, and ClickStack, while the visible market presence of Uptrace rests on a first-party comparison estate and community channels rather than on dated third-party press coverage.
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Cloud telemetry pricing starts at $0.10 per GB of traces ingestion and decreases with volume, with the first 50 GB per month free, metrics billed at $0.025 per million datapoints, a monthly spending hard cap, and cold storage retained up to 100 weeks.
Self-hosted editions are flat-fee at $0, $39, $199, and $499 per month plus a custom Enterprise tier, purchased through Paddle self-serve checkout, with annual commitments, startup plans, and open-source discounts available.
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Uptrace offers an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform that unifies traces, metrics, and logs in a telemetry store built on ClickHouse. Its modules cover distributed tracing, metrics, logs, alerting, and infrastructure monitoring, and an MCP integration lets AI assistants query telemetry directly.
Delivery spans Uptrace Cloud, hosted in the European Union on Hetzner infrastructure in Germany with backups replicated to Finland, and a self-hosted Community Edition plus licensed on-premises editions. Client SDKs exist for Go, Python, Ruby, Node.js, .NET, Java, and other languages.
Source: uptrace.dev
Source: uptrace.dev