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SigNoz vs grimoirelab
SigNoz has 32,146 GitHub stars, 2,497 forks, 1,557 open issues and last shipped today. grimoirelab has 626 stars, 231 forks, 78 open issues and last shipped 4 days ago. SigNoz leads on adoption by 5,035% (32,146 vs 626 stars). SigNoz is written in TypeScript under a custom or non-standard licence; grimoirelab is written in Shell under GPL-3.0. SigNoz has attracted 8% as many forks as stars, grimoirelab 37%. SigNoz was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (metrics), 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 | grimoirelab | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 32K | ★ 626 |
| License | Custom / other | GPL-3.0 |
| Written in | TypeScript | Shell |
| Last push | 2026-09-20 | 2026-09-16 |
| Forks | ⑂ 2.5K | ⑂ 231 |
| 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 grimoirelab if
- You want the grimoirelab feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the GPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Shell
- You evaluated both and grimoirelab 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.
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About grimoirelab
GrimoireLab is a GPL 3.0 licensed CHAOSS toolset for software development analytics that retrieves data from the systems used to support software development, stores it in databases, enriches it by computing metrics, and makes it available for analytics and visualization, aimed at the people who need to measure development activity rather than guess at it.
read the full grimoirelab overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is SigNoz or grimoirelab more popular?
SigNoz has 32,146 GitHub stars and grimoirelab has 626. SigNoz has the larger community by that measure.
Are SigNoz and grimoirelab free?
Both are open source. SigNoz has no licence declared in this registry, and grimoirelab is licensed under GPL-3.0. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between SigNoz and grimoirelab?
SigNoz is written in TypeScript and grimoirelab in Shell. 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 grimoirelab?
Choose SigNoz if you want the larger community (32,146 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose grimoirelab if its feature set, stack or GPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.