Owlpane / Solutions / SigNoz vs. Owlpane
Moving from another tool · built on OpenTelemetrySigNoz vs. Owlpane: two OpenTelemetry-native tools, different trade-offs.
SigNoz is open source and can be self-hosted. Owlpane is a hosted product with Kubernetes operations, SLO burn-rate alerts and carbon per service on the same telemetry. If you must run it yourself, SigNoz is the honest answer.
Switching, honestly
What you keep, gain and give up
Keep
Your OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Both tools take OTLP, so you can send a copy to each and compare.
Gain
A Kubernetes cluster explorer with actions, incident timeline, SLO burn-rate alerts and Owlpane Carbon (energy and CO₂e per service, endpoint and job), all hosted for you.
Give up
Open source and self-hosting. SigNoz has a free community edition you can run yourself, and an open codebase you can read. We are hosted only, so do not pick us if that is a hard requirement.
What you use
Built from features that ship today
Per service, endpoint and job
Energy and CO₂e from the telemetry you already send, measured or estimated, always labelled.
Carbon →
How it works
Three steps
Add an exporter
Add one exporter to your OpenTelemetry Collector and your current tool keeps receiving everything it does today.
Compare
Run both on the same service for a week.
Decide
Nothing proprietary to undo either way.
Side by side
What each one charges for
| SigNoz Cloud (public rates) | Owlpane | |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting | Open source; self-host free, or SigNoz Cloud | Hosted service |
| Logs and traces | $0.30 per GB ingested, 15-day retention | Counted in GB ingested; 30 days on Team |
| Metrics | $0.10 per million samples | Counted in GB ingested |
| Entry point | From $49 per month on Cloud | Free up to 10 GB a month; Team is $29 including 50 GB, then $0.35 per GB |
| Carbon | Not offered | Included on Team and above |
SigNoz figures come from public pricing summaries in September 2026; confirm on signoz.io/pricing before deciding. Self-hosting has no licence fee but you pay to run and maintain it. SigNoz pricing · Estimate Owlpane with the cost calculator
Questions
Can I self-host Owlpane?
Where Owlpane is narrower
- Not open source and not self-hostable by you.
- A younger product with a smaller community.
Comparisons reflect publicly available information as of September 2026 and our own product today, and may change. Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Dash0, Better Stack, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS, Sentry, Dynatrace, Kubeshark, Checkly, PagerDuty, SigNoz, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and other names are trademarks of their respective owners; Owlpane is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Send a copy of your telemetry. Change nothing else.
Standard OpenTelemetry in, so you can try Owlpane beside what you run today.
Every new workspace starts with a 14-day Team trial: 50 GB of ingest a month and 30-day retention. No card to start. Documentation · Pricing · Pricing questions