- Stars
- 22,157
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last commit
- 4 days ago
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Best Distributed Tracing Tools
Explore leading tools in the Distributed Tracing category, including open-source options and SaaS products. Compare features, use cases, and find the best fit for your workflow.
9 open-source projects · 5 SaaS products
Top open-source Distributed Tracing
These projects are active, self-hostable choices for knowledge management teams evaluating alternatives to SaaS tools.
- Stars
- 17,361
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last commit
- 3 months ago
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- Stars
- 9,783
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last commit
- 4 days ago
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Tokio Tracing
Structured, event-based diagnostics for Rust applications and libraries
- Stars
- 6,367
- License
- MIT
- Last commit
- 7 days ago
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- Stars
- 5,164
- License
- MIT
- Last commit
- 11 days ago
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Grafana Tempo
Scalable, cost-efficient tracing backend with seamless Grafana integration
- Stars
- 4,891
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Last commit
- 3 days ago
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Most starred project
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End‑to‑end distributed tracing for cloud‑native applications at scale
Recently updated
3 days ago
Tempo provides high‑scale distributed tracing using only object storage, integrates tightly with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and supports Jaeger, Zipkin, OpenTelemetry formats.
Popular SaaS Platforms to Replace
Understand the commercial incumbents teams migrate from and how many open-source alternatives exist for each product.
AWS X-Ray
Trace requests through distributed and serverless apps on AWS.
Distributed Tracing
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9 alternatives
Better Stack Tracing
Tracing correlated with logs and metrics for faster debugging.
Distributed Tracing
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9 alternatives
Grafana Cloud Traces
Managed distributed tracing powered by Grafana Tempo.
Distributed Tracing
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9 alternatives
Honeycomb
Observability platform with distributed tracing for pinpointing performance issues in complex systems
Distributed Tracing
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9 alternatives
Sentry Tracing
Distributed tracing to follow requests across services and fix bottlenecks.
Distributed Tracing
Alternatives tracked
9 alternatives
Most compared product
9 open-source alternatives
AWS X-Ray collects, visualizes, and analyzes traces to build service maps, identify high-latency segments, and debug production issues across AWS workloads.
Leading hosted platforms
Frequently replaced when teams want private deployments and lower TCO.
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- Incident Management & On-CallOn-call scheduling, paging and incident response orchestration with runbooks and postmortems.
- Infrastructure MonitoringServer and network monitoring tools for uptime, health checks, and alerts.
- Log ManagementCentralized log collection, storage, and search across servers and applications.