SigNoz review

SigNoz is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform for teams that want application performance monitoring, logs, metrics, traces, infrastructure monitoring, alerts, and dashboards in one place. Product materials describe two deployment paths: SigNoz Cloud or a self-hosted version running on your own infrastructure.

The platform brings together service performance, database and external calls, and distributed traces; the published feature description says tracing supports up to a million spans. Teams can search logs and connect them to traces, and view Kubernetes, host, and cloud metrics alongside services. SigNoz also supports telemetry for LLMs and agents, plus alerts and reusable dashboards.

The switching case is its use of OpenTelemetry standards: instrumentation can remain portable as your stack changes. That does not remove migration work, though. Teams still need to configure their telemetry and decide whether to operate the self-hosted deployment or pay for Cloud.

SigNoz’s clearest advantage is breadth without requiring separate tools for logs, traces, metrics, infrastructure, and LLM telemetry. Correlating logs with traces can help teams investigate service issues without jumping between products. The platform also puts Kubernetes, host, and cloud metrics beside service data, with alerts and reusable dashboards for common observability views.

OpenTelemetry is a practical switching point. If your team already instruments services with OpenTelemetry, SigNoz’s standards-based approach can make the telemetry less dependent on one vendor’s instrumentation. The docs and product description cover tracing, logs, metrics, and LLM and agent telemetry; the feature description specifies support for up to a million spans.

The pricing page lists a free Community Edition for self-hosting, and a Teams plan with unlimited teammates and hosts. Teams starts at $49 per month, with $49 of usage included. After that, listed rates are $0.30 per GB for logs and traces and $0.10 per million metric samples. Eligible startups can get a $19 monthly price, including $19 of telemetry usage, for the first 12 months. That usage-based model avoids a per-host charge, though it still requires watching ingestion.

Self-hosting is not free of operational cost. The pricing page lists Community Edition at $0, but says you manage the infrastructure yourself. That is a poor fit if your reason for switching is to stop maintaining an observability stack. The product description does not publish details here on retention limits or other deployment caps, so confirm those before moving production data.

Cloud pricing also needs watching: Teams includes $49 of usage, then charges $0.30 per GB for logs and traces and $0.10 per million metric samples. No annual Teams price is published. Estimate your ingestion before switching rather than treating $49 as a likely all-in bill. Enterprise starts at $4,000 per month; the pricing page says dedicated Cloud includes monthly ingestion usage up to $4,000 and offers annual contracts.

SSO and SAML are listed as add-ons, but their prices are not published. Users in a self-hosting Reddit thread objected to SSO being paid, with one commenter saying that lack of basic OIDC was a reason not to adopt. Check the current plan and add-on terms if SSO is a requirement.

SigNoz has a free Community Edition, but it is self-hosted: you manage the infrastructure. The hosted Teams plan starts at $49 per month, and that minimum includes $49 of usage. After the included usage, logs and traces cost $0.30 per GB and metrics cost $0.10 per million samples. That makes the bill usage-dependent, not a flat $49 subscription.

The bigger jump is Enterprise, which starts at $4,000 per month. The pricing details say Dedicated Cloud includes up to $4,000 of monthly ingestion usage; Cloud Dedicated, BYOC and self-hosted options are listed. Enterprise offers annual contracts, but no annual price is published. Teams has no published annual price either.

Eligible startups can pay $19 per month for 12 months, including $19 of telemetry usage. SSO and SAML are paid add-ons, but their prices are not published. Check expected ingestion and SSO costs before comparing the $49 minimum with a flat-rate alternative.

SigNoz is built around OpenTelemetry, which can help keep instrumentation portable when your observability backend changes. That does not establish that dashboards, alerts, or saved queries transfer with it; the published product details do not specify migration tools or configuration compatibility. Before switching, inventory those assets and confirm how you would recreate them.

Self-hosting removes the hosted-plan charge, but the product information is clear that you manage the infrastructure yourself. Teams choosing that route should account for the work of operating the platform, not just the software price. For hosted Teams, model ingestion against the included $49 and the published overage rates; costs can rise with usage.

Data-export formats and exit procedures are not published on the vendor's site, so confirm them before moving production telemetry. We also don’t have Reddit posts or comments in the published material for this review, so we can’t credibly say what users report as their reason for leaving SigNoz. Ask vendors about export and retention directly, and test a small service migration before committing.