Uptrace
by Uptrace · OpenTelemetry-native tracing, metrics and logs on ClickHouse
50.8 — BenchRank score out of 100
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Overview
Uptrace is an observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse that unifies traces, metrics and logs, with APM views including a service graph, RED metrics and latency percentiles. It ingests from OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Vector, FluentBit and CloudWatch, and runs as Uptrace Cloud or self-hosted from GitHub. An MCP server lets AI assistants query telemetry in plain text.
- Best for
- Engineering teams already using OpenTelemetry that want traces, metrics and logs under one usage-based bill.
- Pricing
- 50 GB of traces, logs and metrics free each month, then from $0.075/GB — the estimator shows $0.100/GB for traces and logs and $0.025 per million metric datapoints, falling to $0.016/GB at volume — while self-hosting is free.
- Runs on
- WebSelf-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Traces, metrics and logs in one OpenTelemetry-native platform
- Self-hosting from GitHub is free with no feature limits
- No per-seat, host or service fees; billed on data ingested
- Hard monthly spend cap that the vendor says it won't exceed
Trade-offs
- Cloud data is held only in EU data centres, in Germany and Finland
- Support runs 16/5 across EU and US business hours, not 24/7
- Round-trip latency of 90–190ms from the US, Asia, India and Brazil
- No published plan tiers; you must model cost from per-GB rates
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
- MCP support
- 0 out of 100
- API quality
- 25 out of 100
- Documentation
- 45 out of 100
- Agent friendliness
- 100 out of 100
- Pricing transparency
- 100 out of 100
- Changelog
- 80 out of 100
- Marketing site structure
- 50 out of 100
- Operational trust
- 55 out of 100
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
- Openness
- 40 out of 100
- Maintenance
- 90 out of 100
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