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Show HN: Open-source APM with support for tracing, metrics, and logs

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Post by vmihailenco »

Uptrace is an all-in-one tool that supports distributed tracing, metrics, and logs. It uses OpenTelelemetry observability framework to collect data and ClickHouse database to store it.

You can ingest data using OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Vector Logs, and Zipkin API. You can also use OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Prometheus metrics or receive data from Jaeger, X Ray, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL and many more.

The latest Uptrace release introduces support for OpenTelemetry Metrics which includes:

- User interface to build table-based and grid-based dashboards.

- Pre-built dashboard templates for Golang, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and host metrics.

- Metrics monitoring aka alerting rules inspired by Prometheus.

- Notifications via email/Slack/PagerDuty using AlertManager integration.

There are 2 quick ways to try Uptrace:

- Using the Docker container - https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/tree/master/example/docke...

- Using the public demo - https://app.uptrace.dev/play

I will be happy to answer your questions in the comments.

Show HN: Open-source APM with support for tracing, metrics, and logs
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Re: Show HN: Open-source APM with support for tracing, metrics, and logs

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Post by vmihailenco »

You can ingest data using OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Vector Logs, and Zipkin API. You can also use OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Prometheus metrics or receive data from Jaeger, X Ray, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL and many more.

The latest Uptrace release introduces support for OpenTelemetry Metrics which includes:

- User interface to build table-based and grid-based dashboards.

- Pre-built dashboard templates for Golang, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and host metrics.

- Metrics monitoring aka alerting rules inspired by Prometheus.

- Notifications via email/Slack/PagerDuty using AlertManager integration.

There are 2 quick ways to try Uptrace:

- Using the Docker container - https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/tree/master/example/docke...

- Using the public demo - https://app.uptrace.dev/play

I will be happy to answer your questions in the comments.

Re: Show HN: Open-source APM with support for tracing, metrics, and logs

#4

Post by 0JzW »

vmihailenco wrote: post #2

You can ingest data using OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Vector Logs, and Zipkin API. You can also use OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Prometheus metrics or receive data from Jaeger, X Ray, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL and many more. The latest Uptrace release introduces support for OpenTelemetry Metrics which includes: - User interface to build table-based and grid-based dashboards. - Pre-built dashboard templates f…

this looks amazing! i would definitely like to use this for log monitoring. however, i have a question. is it possible to get logs for individual docker containers?

Re: Show HN: Open-source APM with support for tracing, metrics, and logs

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Post by derN3rd »

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 definitely try it out) I want to list some pros and cons about them.

Grafana Tempo

Pros:

- Easy and smooth integration into our existing Grafana instance, no additional frontend needed

- No new storage engine needed (No additional Clickhouse, Postgres, etc) as it saves its data to S3

- Supports OTLP

Cons:

- Search is limited by param size and unique params (as its baked to be indexed)

- Ingestion is not in real time, but configurable (time to finish span)

Signoz:

Pros:

- Supports OTLP

- Integrates Logs and Metrics within the same service (for Grafana you need Loki then)

- Supports real time querying

Cons:

- Uses new storage engines (or extends the software stack) with adding ClickHouse

- Adds an additional frontend (might not be relevant for everyone)

- Doesn't provide SSO yet, so you need to manage users differently

Interesting to see, that UpTrace also chose ClickHouse (btw I love ClickHouse!)

Some questions:

- Can I easily disable certain features? (e.g. alerting)

- Is there support for SSO for self-hosted installation?

- Are there any recommendations for scaling (e.g. benchmarks) on how many spans/s are supported on what hardware?

Thanks in advance!

Re: Show HN: Open-source APM with support for tracing, metrics, and logs

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Post by vmihailenco »

derN3rd wrote: post #5

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 definitely try it out) I want to list some pros and cons about them. Grafana Tempo Pros: - Easy and smooth integration into our existing Grafana instance, no additional frontend needed - No new storage engine needed (No additional Clickhouse, Po…

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 10k spans / second on a single core by running the binary with GOMAXPROCS=1. That is 1-3 terrabytes of compressed data each month which is more than most users need.

Practically, you are limited by the $$$ you are willing to spend on ClickHouse servers, not by Uptrace ingestion speed.

So my recommendation is to scale Uptrace vertically by throwing more cores at it. That will allow you to go very very far.

>- Is there support for SSO for self-hosted installation?

So far the only way to add news users is via the YAML config. We are considering to add a REST API or a CLI tool for the same purpose, but it is not clear how that would work with the YAML.

Regarding the SSO, it would be nice if you can provide an app that already does that so we can better estimate the complexity. But so far we don't have such plans.

>- Can I easily disable certain features? (e.g. alerting)

Yes, most YAML sections just can be removed / commented out to disable the feature.

Re: Show HN: Open-source APM with support for tracing, metrics, and logs

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Post by vmihailenco »

0JzW wrote: post #4
vmihailenco wrote: post #2

You can ingest data using OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Vector Logs, and Zipkin API. You can also use OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Prometheus metrics or receive data from Jaeger, X Ray, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL and many more. The latest Uptrace release introduces support for OpenTelemetry Metrics which includes: - User interface to build table-based and grid-based dashboards. - Pre-built dashboard templates f…

this looks amazing! i would definitely like to use this for log monitoring. however, i have a question. is it possible to get logs for individual docker containers?

It is possible using Vector Logs which Uptrace supports out-of-the-box, for example:

- https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/dock...

- https://uptrace.dev/get/ingest/vector.html

If you are having troubles making it work, feel free to open an issue on Github and I will provide a complete example.

Re: Show HN: Open-source APM with support for tracing, metrics, and logs

#9

Post by vmihailenco »

edf13 wrote: post #7

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?

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 the same set of features. It can also be self-hosted without paying anything which can save a lot of money.

Uptrace aims to be an open source alternative to DataDog, but realistically we are not there yet.

Re: Show HN: Open-source APM with support for tracing, metrics, and logs

#10

Post by vmihailenco »

nik736 wrote: post #3

Nice! 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.

Thanks! Don't hesitate to send any feedback you have so we have a chance to improve :)
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