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SigNoz

by SigNoz Inc.

Open-source full-stack observability platform with APM, distributed tracing, metrics, and log management in a unified ClickHouse-backed deployment for APAC DevOps and SRE teams.

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Recommended
5/5

"SigNoz is the open-source full-stack observability platform for APAC DevOps — APM, distributed tracing, metrics, and logs in a single ClickHouse-backed deployment. Best for APAC teams wanting Datadog-style observability without the per-host pricing that scales poorly."

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What it does

Key features

  • Unified APM — traces, metrics, and logs correlated in a single APAC observability platform
  • OpenTelemetry native — full OTel compatibility for APAC applications instrumented with OTel SDKs
  • ClickHouse backend — columnar storage for high-performance APAC telemetry query and aggregation
  • RED metrics — Request rate, Error rate, Duration dashboards auto-populated from trace data
  • Alert manager — metric and trace threshold alerting with Slack, PagerDuty, and OpsGenie integration
  • Log management — structured and unstructured log ingestion, search, and correlation with traces
  • SigNoz Cloud — managed SaaS deployment for APAC teams not wanting self-hosted ClickHouse operations
When to reach for it

Best for

  • APAC engineering teams scaling beyond Datadog/New Relic pricing wanting full-stack observability at lower cost
  • Platform teams wanting unified APM, tracing, and logs without managing separate Jaeger, Prometheus, and ELK stacks
  • APAC DevOps teams standardising on OpenTelemetry wanting a compatible open-source observability backend
  • Startups and scale-ups in APAC wanting Datadog-quality observability on startup-appropriate infrastructure budgets
Don't get burned

Limitations to know

  • ! SigNoz self-hosted requires ClickHouse operational expertise — APAC teams without database administration capacity should use SigNoz Cloud
  • ! SigNoz community is smaller than Prometheus/Grafana — fewer APAC community plugins, integrations, and troubleshooting resources
  • ! Advanced alerting and anomaly detection capabilities are less mature than commercial platforms like Datadog or Dynatrace
  • ! SigNoz self-hosted high-availability requires ClickHouse cluster configuration — production reliability planning required for APAC critical workloads
Context

About SigNoz

SigNoz is an open-source full-stack observability platform that provides APAC DevOps and SRE teams with application performance monitoring (APM), distributed tracing, infrastructure metrics, and log management in a unified self-hosted deployment — backed by ClickHouse for high-performance telemetry storage and natively compatible with OpenTelemetry instrumentation.

SigNoz's full-stack model — where traces, metrics, and logs are collected, stored, and queried in a single platform — addresses the APAC observability fragmentation problem that occurs when different observability aspects are managed in separate tools: distributed traces in Jaeger, infrastructure metrics in Prometheus, and logs in Elasticsearch. APAC SRE teams investigating a production incident must context-switch between three tools and manually correlate signals. SigNoz provides correlated trace, metric, and log views in a single interface.

SigNoz's cost model — open-source self-hosted with ClickHouse as the storage backend, rather than the per-host, per-metric, or per-log-gigabyte pricing models of commercial alternatives — makes SigNoz economically attractive for APAC engineering teams at infrastructure scales where commercial observability pricing becomes significant. An APAC organisation running 200 Kubernetes nodes pays Datadog approximately $5,000-$10,000 per month for host-agent observability; SigNoz's self-hosted cost is primarily ClickHouse infrastructure ($500-$2,000 per month depending on retention and query volume).

SigNoz's APM dashboards — which display RED metrics (Request rate, Error rate, Duration p50/p95/p99) for each instrumented APAC service, latency heatmaps, slow query analysis, and top endpoints by error rate — provide APAC SRE teams with the service health visibility that is the primary operational use case for application performance monitoring. The dashboards are auto-populated from OpenTelemetry trace data, requiring no additional dashboard configuration after OTel instrumentation is connected.

SigNoz's SaaS offering — SigNoz Cloud, which provides the full SigNoz platform as a managed service with no self-hosted ClickHouse to operate — addresses APAC teams that want SigNoz's pricing model and OpenTelemetry compatibility without the operational overhead of managing ClickHouse. SigNoz Cloud pricing is consumption-based (per telemetry volume ingested) rather than per-host, providing APAC teams with cost predictability proportional to actual observability usage.

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