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SigNoz vs telegraf
SigNoz has 32,116 GitHub stars, 2,493 forks, 1,557 open issues and last shipped yesterday. telegraf has 17,807 stars, 5,839 forks, 449 open issues and last shipped yesterday. SigNoz leads on adoption by 80% (32,116 vs 17,807 stars). SigNoz is written in TypeScript under a custom or non-standard licence; telegraf is written in Go under MIT. SigNoz has attracted 8% as many forks as stars, telegraf 33%. SigNoz was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 3 topic tags (logs, metrics, monitoring), 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 | telegraf | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 32K | ★ 18K |
| License | Custom / other | MIT |
| Written in | TypeScript | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 2.5K | ⑂ 5.8K |
| 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 telegraf if
- You want the telegraf feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and telegraf 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 telegraf
Telegraf is a Go based, MIT licensed open source agent that collects, processes, aggregates, and writes metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data, and it is aimed at engineers who run their own monitoring and observability pipelines.
read the full telegraf overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is SigNoz or telegraf more popular?
SigNoz has 32,116 GitHub stars and telegraf has 17,807. SigNoz has the larger community by that measure.
Are SigNoz and telegraf free?
Both are open source. SigNoz has no licence declared in this registry, and telegraf is licensed under MIT. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between SigNoz and telegraf?
SigNoz is written in TypeScript and telegraf 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 telegraf?
Choose SigNoz if you want the larger community (32,116 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose telegraf if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.