# SigNoz

19 Hacker News commenters recommended SigNoz and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Open-source, OpenTelemetry-native observability tool with strong dashboards and APM charts that people self-host cheaply. Common caveat: alerting is weaker than the rest.

## Why people recommend it

- OpenTelemetry-native and open source (3 comments): "we're opentelemetry-native and apart from many out of box charts for APM, infra monitoring, and logs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937437)) "Mostly slick, under active development, communicative team, open source" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45936267)) "open source and opentelemetry-native" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937417))
- Strong dashboards and trace monitoring (2 comments): "we're opentelemetry-native and apart from many out of box charts for APM, infra monitoring, and logs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937437)) "SigNoz has great dashboards and trace and metrics monitoring, but its alerting system isn’t great." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041865))
- Much cheaper than commercial alternatives (3 comments): "It costs me $30/month and I can throw large quantities of data at it and it doesn’t break a sweat." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46620682)) "I was paying a fortune for a cloud observability platform that cost more and more every month" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935917)) "Works nicely with my existing Signoz, costs nothing extra" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49702654))
- Easy self-hosting and active development (4 comments): "Mostly slick, under active development, communicative team, open source" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45936267)) "seem easy to self-host and decent enough" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46349492)) "make SigNoz deployment actually painless" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088135))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Grafana](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grafana.md): 71 recommend
- [Prometheus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/prometheus.md): 48 recommend
- [Datadog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/datadog.md): 40 recommend
- [Sentry](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sentry.md): 31 recommend
- [Superlog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/superlog.md): 15 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "SigNoz", https://hackerapproved.com/p/signoz/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).