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SigNoz
Company blog · signoz.io/blogprogrammingsystems
SigNoz is the company blog at signoz.io, writing about programming and systems. Since 2020, 49 different Hacker News readers have linked it 169 times, most often “Open-Source Observability – SigNoz”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 36 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly mention SigNoz as an open-source, OpenTelemetry-based alternative to Datadog. Linked posts cover benchmarks, AWS integrations, CloudWatch pitfalls, and setup docs.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- One commenter pointed readers to its post on CloudWatch pitfalls, saying CloudWatch is painful in many ways.1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 36 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
SigNoz Cloud is a one-stop observability tool built on top of OpenTelemetry. Get APM, logs, traces, metrics, exceptions, AI observability & alerts in a single tool.
Most-linked posts?
- Open-Source Observability – SigNoz16 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2021-02-01
- /10 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2021-12-29
- My Unhyped Take on MCP Servers [It's Negative]3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-07-19
- Monitoring K8s using a combo of daemonset/deployment of OpenTelemetry Collector3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-19
- /slack2 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2022-10-01
- Is OpenTelemetry Ready for Infrastructure Monitoring?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-30
- Made ClickHouse queries 99.5% faster with resource fingerprinting2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-12
- Monitoring Backstage Blindspots with OpenTelemetry2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-04
- Optimizing Log processing at scale: from sequential to concurrent processing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-24
- 9x more value for money than Datadog – SigNoz2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-09
What Hacker News says?
Awesome! Let us know if you have nay feedback when you get a chance to dive deeper. Here's our slack community- https://signoz.io/slack
Comment linking /slack
on “Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic”Submitted The current state of OpenTelemetry as a story · 160 points
HN discussionAwesome! Do let us know if you face any issues, should be fairly simple to do. We are on slack at https://signoz.io/slack if you need any help
Comment linking /slack
on “Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic”Submitted GitHub CI/CD observability with OpenTelemetry step by step guide as a story · 152 points
HN discussionHere are few case studies of production users published by SigNoz: https://signoz.io/case-study/
Comment linking /case-study/
on “Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic”Submitted LLM Observability in the Wild – Why OpenTelemetry Should Be the Standard as a story · 144 points
HN discussionHey, thanks for writing. Our initial focus was on application monitoring - that is why docs are more oriented towards it. But I can understand you may find it tough to understand for infra metrics (CPU/Memory/Disk) As of now, there are couple of ways to do this: 1. You can enable hostmetrics receiver in opentelemetry collector 2. You can use something like prometheus node exporter and enable prometheus receiver in o…
Comment linking /slack
on “Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic”Submitted Adding OR logic forced us to confront why users preferred raw SQL as a story · 95 points
HN discussionHi, I want to love this product. This will be the 3rd or 4th time I have looked at the docs to figure out basic setup. Each time I look into this. I look to see how it can report CPU/Memory/Disk of the systems at large. When I read, all I find on open telemetry and SigNoz is how to integrate with application stacks. Am I missing something fundamental in that SygNoz/OpenTelemetry do not integrate with host level metr…
Comment linking /docs/tutorials/
on “Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic”Submitted Bringing Observability to Claude Code: OpenTelemetry in Action as a story · 51 points
HN discussionAwesome! Do give it a try and let us know what do you think. We also have an active slack community if you have any questions on how to set up or have an feedback for us - https://signoz.io/slack
Comment linking /slack
on “Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic”Submitted Open-Source Observability – SigNoz as a story · 28 points
HN discussionhey, windows is not officially supported. If you have a Ubuntu machine/Mac, you can try in that https://signoz.io/docs/install/docker/#prerequisites
Comment linking /docs/install/docker/
on “Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic”Submitted Zero Trust for Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) as a story · 26 points
HN discussionthanks, if you have any questions while setting things up, feel free to drop by on our slack community - https://signoz.io/slack Also, can you explain a bit more on in-cluster collection services are frustratingly fragile do you mean the agent they use for sending application metrics from clusters breaks down?
Comment linking /slack
on “Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic”Submitted Engineering a Trace Details Page That Handles a Million Spans as a story · 13 points
HN discussionYou can find answers to some similar questions here - https://signoz.io/docs/faqs/product/#how-is-signoz-different... Let me know if you have a specific question which is not addressed in the above link and will try to answer
Comment linking /docs/faqs/product/
on “Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic”Submitted Bringing Observability to Your N8n Workflows: OpenTelemetry in Action as a story · 12 points
HN discussionthanks for the kind words. To give it a try and let us know if you have any feedback/questions. We also have an active slack community if you have any questions on how to set up or have an feedback for us - https://signoz.io/slack
Comment linking /slack
on “Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic”Submitted Engineering a Trace Details Page That Handles a Million Spans as a story · 10 points
HN discussionyeah, it's not ideal - but we kept it to give users who are installing for the first time to get a hang of the product You can easily remove the sample services if you want - https://signoz.io/docs/operate/docker-standalone/#remove-the...
Comment linking /docs/operate/docker-standalone/
on “Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic”Submitted AI Agent Observability with OpenTelemetry as a story · 9 points
HN discussionfeel free to test it out. We have an active slack community as well if you have any questions on how to setup etc. https://signoz.io/slack
Comment linking /slack
on “Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic”Submitted Made ClickHouse queries 99.5% faster with resource fingerprinting as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThe comment by rad_gruchalski is mostly accurate SigNoz has the following components - Frontend - ClickHouse (datastore) - Alert Manager (this is to monitor metrics and create alerts which you configure in SigNoz) - Query Service (which is the backend service which talks to datastore & frontend) - Otel collector ( which the collector provided by opentelemetry to collect telemetry data) The other two components for s…
Comment linking /docs/architecture/
on “Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic”Submitted Performance Benchmark for Open Source Logs Solution: Elastic, Loki and SigNoz as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYou have plenty of options. some of them are open source https://signoz.io/ https://coroot.com/ Did you search tools that are cheaper than DD?
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on “Show HN: I built an open-source tool to make on-call suck less”Submitted Curated list of observability, SRE best practices at top companies like Netflix as a story · 6 points
HN discussionMaybe Loki, but it has some limitations related to high cardinality data and indices ( https://signoz.io/blog/logs-performance-benchmark/?utm_sourc... )
Comment linking /blog/logs-performance-benchmark/?utm_source=github&utm_medium=logs-benchmark
on “Datadog acquires Quickwit”Submitted Is Claude Code Getting Worse? How to Measure Degradation with OpenTelemetry as a story · 5 points
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