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SigNoz vs beyla
SigNoz has 32,525 GitHub stars, 2,576 forks, 1,557 open issues and last shipped yesterday. beyla has 2,153 stars, 205 forks, 109 open issues and last shipped yesterday. SigNoz leads on adoption by 1,411% (32,525 vs 2,153 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 10%. 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 | ★ 33K | ★ 2.2K |
| License | Custom / other | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | TypeScript | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-04 | 2026-11-04 |
| Forks | ⑂ 2.6K | ⑂ 205 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick SigNoz if
- You weight community size — 33K 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
中文 · Deutsch · Português SigNoz is an open source observability platform built on OpenTelemetry. We’re building an enterprise grade alternative to fragmented monitoring stacks, with logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and dashboards in one place. Choose how to run SigNoz SigNoz Cloud (Recommended) Fully managed SigNoz with a 30 day free trial, no credit card required, usage based pricing that starts at $49, and regional data hosting. Start free → Enterprise Enterprise Cloud, BYOC, or Enterprise Self Hosted with compliance, support, custom retention, RBAC, ingestion controls, data residency, and region selection…
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About beyla
Grafana Beyla Open source zero code automatic instrumentation with eBPF and OpenTelemetry. Important Update for current and future Beyla contributors Beyla has been donated to the CNCF OpenTelemetry Project, under the project name OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation or OBI for short. We are in the process of vendoring most of the code that exists in the Beyla source repository from upstream. If you are working on a PR, unless it's related to documentation, please make the PR to the upstream repository. All Beyla current maintainers work full time on the upstream repository. We expect that the process of migrating…
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Frequently asked questions
Is SigNoz or beyla more popular?
SigNoz has 32,525 GitHub stars and beyla has 2,153. 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 (32,525 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.