Hypertrace

hypertrace.org · checked 11 Oct 2026

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NoPublic API

NoOpen source

YesFree tier

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Hypertrace is a real-time observability platform that turns distributed trace data into insights about production requests and network trends.

Pricing

Hypertrace Community EditionServices, Endpoints, Backends and Service Graph features · Traceable Community licenseFree
Hypertrace CoreDistributed trace ingestion and exploration features · Apache 2.0 licenseFree

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Facts

Website: hypertrace.org
Price: Free tier
Free trial: Not stated
Dashboards: The Dashboard UI shows global health, including frequently called endpoints, services and backends.
Dashboards and analysis: The platform provides custom dashboards, real-time metrics aggregation, and path-based analysis.
Data formats: Hypertrace supports OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, and Zipkin trace formats.
Deployment: Hypertrace can be deployed on Kubernetes with Helm charts or run locally with Docker Compose.
Instrumentation agents: Hypertrace provides open-source OpenTelemetry-based agents for Java, Go, and Python.
Intended teams: The project describes infrastructure, service and deployment teams as users who can investigate overloads, failed requests and problems introduced by new versions.
License limit: The Traceable Community License excludes using covered software to provide an online service that competes with Traceable products or services providing that software.
Licensing: Hypertrace Core and its data collection agents use Apache 2.0, while Community Edition includes components under the Traceable Community License.
Production deployment note: The project README says its hypertrace-ingester and hypertrace-service quick-start components are not supported for production because of scaling limitations and reliability issues.
Production limitation: The project says hypertrace-ingester and hypertrace-service are for local deployment and quick start and are not supported for production because of limitations and scaling reliability concerns.
Rollout monitoring: Teams can compare service and backend performance during upgrades and investigate whether a changed service is causing slow requests.
Root cause analysis: It can show the services, endpoints and backends involved in a failed request, including contextual errors, to help locate the cause.

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