Managed SigNoz Hosting — production-ready from $15 a month
Open-source observability with traces, metrics, and logs. Deployed on your own dedicated instance in AWS, Azure, or GCP, kept patched, backed up, and monitored by ManageStacks — standard SigNoz, no lock-in.
SigNoz is an open-source alternative to Datadog that unifies traces, metrics, and logs in a single platform. ManageStacks offers fully managed SigNoz hosting so teams get enterprise-grade observability without the infrastructure burden.
What does SigNoz do, and why do teams deploy it?
SigNoz provides a unified observability platform built on OpenTelemetry, combining distributed tracing, metrics monitoring, and log management into a single pane of glass. Unlike fragmented tool stacks or expensive SaaS solutions like Datadog and New Relic, SigNoz gives engineering teams full visibility into application performance with native support for the OpenTelemetry standard.
Powered by ClickHouse on the backend, SigNoz delivers fast query performance across massive volumes of telemetry data. Its intuitive dashboards, alerting rules, and service maps make it straightforward to identify bottlenecks, debug issues, and understand system behavior across distributed architectures.
- Unified traces, metrics, and logs in one platform
- Native OpenTelemetry support with no vendor lock-in
- ClickHouse-powered backend for fast query performance
- Custom dashboards and flexible alerting rules
- Service maps for visualizing distributed architectures
- Exception tracking and error monitoring
Open-source observability with traces, metrics, and logs
What does managed SigNoz hosting cost?
Flat per-app pricing, in your chosen AWS, Azure, or GCP region. No per-user pricing — a busy deployment costs the same as a quiet one.
Starter
Staging and internal tools. Dedicated instance, TLS, daily backups, managed upgrades.
Standard
Production workloads. Adds monitoring, staging environment, region choice, priority support.
Business
High-traffic and compliance workloads. Adds a high-availability replica and same-day support.
24×7 SRE retainer
Round-the-clock on-call across every hosted application, for teams that need a pager answered at 3am.
Self-hosting SigNoz vs managed — what does it really cost?
The software is free. The engineer-hours are not.
Running it yourself
- Deploy ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry Collector, query service, and frontend separately — each with its own config
- Configure ClickHouse retention policies, replication, and storage scaling by hand
- Wire OpenTelemetry SDKs to the collector and troubleshoot data pipeline gaps
- Build alerting rules and dashboards from scratch — no preconfigured templates
- Handle ClickHouse version upgrades and schema migrations without breaking query performance
On ManageStacks
- Subscribe through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace
- SigNoz deploys with ClickHouse, OTel Collector, query service, and frontend — fully integrated
- Send traces, metrics, and logs from any OpenTelemetry-instrumented service immediately
- Preconfigured dashboards and alert templates for common services ship out of the box
- Rolling upgrades including ClickHouse schema migrations handled by us
SigNoz on ManageStacks vs the alternatives
How SigNoz on ManageStacks compares to commercial and open-source observability platforms.
| SigNoz on ManageStacksUs | Datadog | New Relic | Grafana Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Managed on your AWS, Azure, or GCP | Vendor-hosted | Vendor-hosted | Vendor-hosted |
| Data residency | Your cloud region | Vendor infrastructure | Vendor infrastructure | Vendor infrastructure |
| Pricing basis | Flat $29/mo per instance | Per host + per GB ingested | Per GB ingested + per user | Per metric + per GB logs + per trace |
| Signals | Traces + metrics + logs | Traces + metrics + logs + more | Traces + metrics + logs + more | Traces + metrics + logs (separate tools) |
| OTel-native | Yes (OTLP-first) | Supported (not primary) | Supported (not primary) | Supported |
| Open source | Yes (MIT / ELv2 for enterprise features) | No (proprietary) | No (proprietary) | Agents are open source |
Provisioning, upgrades, backups and monitoring on your team’s plate.
What does running SigNoz yourself involve?
ManageStacks eliminates the complexity of running SigNoz's multi-component architecture, letting your team focus on instrumenting applications instead of managing observability infrastructure.
SigNoz key numbers
How long from subscribing to a live instance?
Subscribe
Subscribe to ManageStacks through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace.
Provision
SigNoz deploys with ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry Collector, and the full UI stack — typically 4-6 minutes.
Instrument
Add OpenTelemetry SDKs to your services and point the OTLP exporter at your ManageStacks SigNoz endpoint. Traces, metrics, and logs start flowing.
Observe
Build dashboards, set alert rules, and use service maps to understand distributed system behavior. Drill from metrics to traces to logs in a single interface.
When is self-hosting SigNoz the right answer instead?
“Managed hosting is not always the correct call.”
Self-host when a platform team already runs the infrastructure and on-call rotation to operate SigNoz at genuinely low marginal cost. Self-host when compliance requires an air-gapped or on-premises deployment that no hosted option can satisfy. And self-host when the deployment depends on heavy customisation with a fast internal build-deploy loop, because an internal release process will beat any managed change process.
For everyone else — teams whose engineers have better things to do than shepherd upgrades — managed hosting is cheaper than the hours it replaces.
Which cloud should SigNoz run on — AWS, Azure or GCP?
For most workloads, the choice of cloud matters less than proximity: run SigNoz in the same cloud and region as the applications and data it talks to, because every request between them adds a round trip. The underlying compute performs equivalently across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
In practice, an existing cloud footprint decides it. All plans support all three clouds, and moving regions later is a scheduled migration, not a rebuild.
Deepest managed-service catalog, default when there's no existing footprint
Best fit for teams already on Microsoft 365 or Entra ID
Strongest for data/analytics-adjacent workloads
Every plan supports AWS, Azure, and GCP — region choice included.
Common questions about SigNoz on ManageStacks
How does ManageStacks handle the ClickHouse backend that SigNoz requires?
ManageStacks provisions and manages the ClickHouse instance alongside SigNoz automatically. Storage is scaled based on your plan, and backups cover both the SigNoz configuration and your telemetry data.
Can I send OpenTelemetry data from external services to SigNoz on ManageStacks?
Yes. ManageStacks exposes the SigNoz OTLP endpoints securely so you can instrument any application or service, regardless of where it runs, and send telemetry data to your managed SigNoz instance.
What data retention policies are available for SigNoz on ManageStacks?
ManageStacks allows you to configure retention periods for traces, metrics, and logs independently within SigNoz. Storage is billed based on usage, and you can adjust retention as your needs change.
Run SigNoz without carrying the pager
Subscribe through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace. We handle provisioning, SSL, monitoring, backups, updates, and security. From $15/mo.