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SigNoz vs beyla
SigNoz has 32,146 GitHub stars, 2,497 forks, 1,557 open issues and last shipped today. beyla has 2,132 stars, 193 forks, 109 open issues and last shipped yesterday. SigNoz leads on adoption by 1,408% (32,146 vs 2,132 stars). SigNoz is written in TypeScript under a custom or non-standard licence; beyla is written in Go under Apache-2.0. SigNoz has attracted 8% as many forks as stars, beyla 9%. SigNoz was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (observability), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| SigNoz | beyla | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 32K | ★ 2.1K |
| License | Custom / other | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | TypeScript | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-20 | 2026-09-19 |
| Forks | ⑂ 2.5K | ⑂ 193 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick SigNoz if
- You weight community size — 32K stars and counting
- You want the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick beyla if
- You want the beyla feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and beyla fits your workflow better
About SigNoz
SigNoz is an open source, OpenTelemetry native observability platform for cloud native applications. It unifies logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and dashboards into a single tool, replacing fragmented monitoring stacks with a correlated signal pipeline. It lives in the observability ecosystem alongside tools like Prometheus, Jaeger, and Grafana, and is positioned as an open alternative to Datadog.
read the full SigNoz overview →
About beyla
Beyla is a vendor agnostic, eBPF based auto instrumentation tool from Grafana that generates OpenTelemetry trace spans and Prometheus metrics for HTTP/S and gRPC services without any modification to application code or configuration, and it is aimed at platform, SRE and observability engineers who need application level telemetry from services they cannot or will not instrument by hand.
read the full beyla overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is SigNoz or beyla more popular?
SigNoz has 32,146 GitHub stars and beyla has 2,132. SigNoz has the larger community by that measure.
Are SigNoz and beyla free?
Both are open source. SigNoz has no licence declared in this registry, and beyla is licensed under Apache-2.0. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between SigNoz and beyla?
SigNoz is written in TypeScript and beyla in Go. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, SigNoz or beyla?
Choose SigNoz if you want the larger community (32,146 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose beyla if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.