No. 28 of 29 ·Distributed Tracing Tools

Sematext Tracing

Web · Windows · Mac · Linux · Android · iPhone · Self-hosted · API

Freedom report

Two barsScore 4.9

Free tierNo free tier on record
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely6 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

Sematext Tracing is ranked #28 of 29 in distributed tracing tools on Freedom251. It runs on Android, API, iOS, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Web, Windows. There is no free plan. A free trial is offered.

Sematext Tracing plans and pricing

All plans

Pro Not published per month; billed monthly based on actual usage 20M spans/day tier · 7 days retention sematext.com · 7 Oct 2026

Basic Not published per month; billed monthly based on actual usage 2M spans/day included · 1 day retention sematext.com · 7 Oct 2026

Standard Not published per month; billed monthly based on actual usage 5M spans/day tier · 7 days retention sematext.com · 7 Oct 2026

Compared on distributed tracing tools

Free plan: No
Paid from: $17.10/mo
OpenTelemetry support: Yes
Service map: Yes
Tail-based sampling: No
Trace retention: 1 days
Deployment model: cloud
Pricing basis: spans

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The record

Product: Sematext Tracing is an OpenTelemetry-based distributed tracing solution for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices and distributed systems.
Trace collection: It accepts traces using OTLP over HTTP or gRPC and works with OpenTelemetry Collectors, Jaeger, Zipkin, and OTLP-compatible instrumentation.
Trace search: Users can search and filter traces by service, operation, latency, errors, and custom attributes, and inspect waterfall and span-level details.
Root cause analysis: The product displays error rates, error types, and stack traces in the context of a full request trace.
Performance insights: Tracing provides latency breakdowns, P50/P95/P99 percentiles, RED metrics, and database query performance insights.
Languages and frameworks: The product lists support for Java, Python, Node.js, Go, .NET, Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, iOS/Swift, Android, Spring, Django, Express, Rails, React, Vue, and Svelte.
Deployment: The product page says it can be deployed on Kubernetes, Docker, containers, or bare metal.
Sampling: Users can configure head-based sampling to always sample errors and high-latency requests while sampling normal traffic at lower rates.
Alerting: Users can set alerts on latency thresholds, error rates, or custom span attributes and integrate them with incident management workflows.
Plans and limits: Pricing depends on plan tier, daily span volume, and retention; the pricing page specifies 2M, 5M, and 20M spans/day tiers and 1-day Basic versus 7-day Standard/Pro retention.
Trial: The Tracing page offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required.
Support: The product page links to production support, and the company page says Sematext provides production support for Elasticsearch, the ELK/Elastic Stack, and Apache Solr.
Company history: Sematext’s company history says it launched as Sematext International in Spring 2010.
Headquarters: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Where it ranks on Freedom251

Best Distributed Tracing Tools in 2026#28 of 29

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Sources

sematext.com/docs/tracing/· checked 7 Oct 2026
sematext.com/tracing/· checked 7 Oct 2026
sematext.com/pricing/· checked 7 Oct 2026
sematext.com/about/· checked 7 Oct 2026