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SigNoz vs minitrace-rust
SigNoz has 32,176 GitHub stars, 2,502 forks, 1,557 open issues and last shipped yesterday. minitrace-rust has 751 stars, 46 forks, 13 open issues and last shipped 11 days ago. SigNoz leads on adoption by 4,184% (32,176 vs 751 stars). SigNoz is written in TypeScript under a custom or non-standard licence; minitrace-rust is written in Rust under Apache-2.0. SigNoz has attracted 8% as many forks as stars, minitrace-rust 6%. SigNoz was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (jaeger), 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 | minitrace-rust | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 32K | ★ 751 |
| License | Custom / other | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | TypeScript | Rust |
| Last push | 2026-09-24 | 2026-09-14 |
| Forks | ⑂ 2.5K | ⑂ 46 |
| 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 minitrace-rust if
- You want the minitrace-rust feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Rust
- You evaluated both and minitrace-rust 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 minitrace-rust
minitrace rust is an extremely fast tracing library for the Rust programming language, intended for Rust developers who need distributed tracing in their services and want that trace data to reach backends such as Jaeger or Datadog.
read the full minitrace-rust overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is SigNoz or minitrace-rust more popular?
SigNoz has 32,176 GitHub stars and minitrace-rust has 751. SigNoz has the larger community by that measure.
Are SigNoz and minitrace-rust free?
Both are open source. SigNoz has no licence declared in this registry, and minitrace-rust is licensed under Apache-2.0. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between SigNoz and minitrace-rust?
SigNoz is written in TypeScript and minitrace-rust in Rust. 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 minitrace-rust?
Choose SigNoz if you want the larger community (32,176 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose minitrace-rust if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.