Uptrace
Infrastructure
observability apm
SHOW HN2022
112points
46comments
#558of 2,570 in 2022
Top 22%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
1 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 9 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.29.
Idea: 1 for, 6 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good ClickHouse-based performance and scalability
From 2 comments
Thanks for the feedback! >- Are there any recommendations for scaling (e.g. benchmarks) on how many spans/s are supported on what hardware? With Uptrace, I was able to achieve…
vmihailenco on HNWhen compared with ElasticSearch, ClickHouse can handle the same amount data using 10x less resources and that is not an exaggeration. It is even worse with…
vmihailenco on HN
Simpler and cheaper than Datadog or Sentry
From 2 comments
DataDog has a high learning curve and can be rather expensive if you need to monitor a lot of hosts and microservices. Uptrace tries hard to stay simple while providing almost…
vmihailenco on HNNice! Exactly what I've been looking for, will give it a try for sure. Sentry eats a lot of resources so I was looking for an alternative.
nik736 on HN
Objections
Business Source License is not truly open source
From 3 comments
Before you try, please make sure you are comfortable with their license - https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/blob/master/LICENSE (Business Source License 1.1), which as License…
jonasdevops on HNFalse Advertising! BSL Licensed is not Open Source. To Be fair Utrace restrictions are relatively light but it is still Source Available project not Open Source
PeterZaitsev on HNIt says Open Source right in the HN headline. That the license contradicts that seems like important information to discuss.
kadoban on HN
Source-available license restricts production use concerns
From 1 comment
I cannot run uptrace in Production: > The Licensor hereby grants you the right to copy, modify, create derivative works, redistribute, and make non-production use of the Licensed…
jonasdevops on HN
Requests
Built-in SSO support for self-hosted installs
From 1 comment
Nice to see so many new projects in the area of APM in the last few months. We recently tried Signoz and Grafana Tempo and while I can't say something about uptrace yet (will…
derN3rd on HN
Ability to export dashboards as static images
From 1 comment
Anyways to export dashboard for public viewing, maybe even static image? It looks like all drawing is done client side at present.
xfer on HN
Wider log viewer for large screens
From 1 comment
I think the log interface should be optimized for keyboard navigation and larger screens. On my 4k monitor it only takes up 1/2 the width and only shows 10 lines at a time, id…
tylergetsay on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Datadog
From 1 comment
Looks nice... I'm a bit out of touch in this space but my last solution for similar would be Datadog. How does this compare?
edf13 on HN
Why ClickHouse as backend
From 1 comment
can you elaborate more on why clickhouse for backend? And what challenges if any are you facing with clickhouse?
ram_rar on HN
Alternatives named
Signoz
From 1 comment
Nice to see so many new projects in the area of APM in the last few months. We recently tried Signoz and Grafana Tempo and while I can't say something about uptrace yet (will…
derN3rd on HN
Grafana Tempo
From 1 comment
Nice to see so many new projects in the area of APM in the last few months. We recently tried Signoz and Grafana Tempo and while I can't say something about uptrace yet (will…
derN3rd on HN
Datadog
From 1 comment
Looks nice... I'm a bit out of touch in this space but my last solution for similar would be Datadog. How does this compare?
edf13 on HN
Apache Skywalking
From 1 comment
This seems like a pretty cool project! Currently using Apache Skywalking myself, because it's reasonably simple to get up and running, as well as integrate with some of the more…
KronisLV on HN
Opstrace
From 1 comment
How does it compare to Opstrace? (www.opstrace.com)
wdb on HN