SigNoz is an open-source observability platform designed as an alternative to tools like Datadog and New Relic. It leverages OpenTelemetry for data collection, providing a unified view of logs, metrics, and traces.
Key Features:
- OpenTelemetry Native: Built to seamlessly integrate with OpenTelemetry, ensuring compatibility and leveraging its semantic conventions.
- Unified Observability: Combines logs, metrics, and traces into a single pane, facilitating correlation and root cause analysis.
- Flexible Deployment: Supports both self-hosting and cloud-based deployments, offering flexibility to adapt to different infrastructure needs.
- Columnar Database: Utilizes ClickHouse for efficient storage and querying of observability data.
- Customizable Dashboards: Allows users to create custom dashboards tailored to specific monitoring requirements.
Use Cases:
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in applications.
- Distributed Tracing: Track requests across multiple services to pinpoint the source of issues.
- Log Management: Centralize and analyze logs for troubleshooting and auditing.
- Infrastructure Monitoring: Monitor the health and performance of infrastructure components.
- Alerting: Configure alerts to proactively detect and respond to critical events.
