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Google Cloud Trace vs Uptrace
Both stand on distributed tracing tools. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.
Free plan APILinuxWeb
Cloud Trace offers latency visualization, SQL querying and connections to logs and BigQuery, with a free monthly span allowance. Review the retention, ingestion quota and data-residency caveat against your requirements before sending trace data.
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Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+3
Uptrace offers flexible analysis and deployment options for OpenTelemetry data, from a free Cloud plan to self-hosted editions. Consider the stated retention and encryption details when evaluating where to store telemetry.
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| Google Cloud Trace | Uptrace | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Not published | Yes |
| Runs on | API, Linux, Web | API, Linux, Mac, Self-hosted, Web, Windows |
| Lowest paid plan | See the plans | Starter: $39 a month |
| Plans published | 1 | 6 |
| Maker | Not published | Not published |
| Website | cloud.google.com | uptrace.dev |
| On distributed tracing tools | #5 of 32 | #1 of 32 |
Google Cloud Trace: what it does well
- Heatmap views aggregate latency across traces.
- SQL analytics can join trace and log data.
- Supports OpenTelemetry instrumentation samples for four languages.
- Trace data can be joined with BigQuery datasets.
- First 2.5 million spans per account each month are free.
What to know first
- Spans in the _Trace bucket are retained for 30 days.
- Assured Workloads residency or IL4 users should not send spans through the Cloud Trace API.
- Daily API ingestion quota varies from 3 million to 5 billion spans.
- Apigee support is Public Preview.
Uptrace: what it does well
- Unifies traces, metrics, and logs.
- Supports UQL and a PromQL-compatible metrics engine.
- Offers cloud and self-hosted deployment options.
- Free Cloud plan includes 50 GB per month.
- Self-hosted deployments keep telemetry within customer infrastructure.
What to know first
- Most live database data is not encrypted at rest.
- Cloud data retention defaults to four weeks.
- Starter costs $39 a month.
- Cloud data centers and backups are in Germany and Finland.
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