Sematext Tracing

APIyesOSS—FREE—DOCS4/5
ST6.7#17 of 29
outWeboutWindowsoutMacoutLinuxoutAndroidoutiOS

Ranked in Distributed Tracing Tools ·Free trial

About

Sematext Tracing is ranked #17 of 29 in distributed tracing tools on Inferse. It runs on Android, API, iOS, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Web, Windows. There is no free plan. A free trial is offered.

Compared on distributed tracing tools

Free plan
Nosematext.com
Paid from
$17.10/mosematext.com
OpenTelemetry support
Yessematext.com
Service map
Yessematext.com
Tail-based sampling
Nosematext.com
Trace retention
1 dayssematext.com
Deployment model
cloudsematext.com
Pricing basis
spanssematext.com

Facts

Product
Sematext Tracing is an OpenTelemetry-based distributed tracing solution for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices and distributed systems.sematext.com · 7 Oct 2026
Trace collection
It accepts traces using OTLP over HTTP or gRPC and works with OpenTelemetry Collectors, Jaeger, Zipkin, and OTLP-compatible instrumentation.sematext.com · 7 Oct 2026
Trace search
Users can search and filter traces by service, operation, latency, errors, and custom attributes, and inspect waterfall and span-level details.sematext.com · 7 Oct 2026
Root cause analysis
The product displays error rates, error types, and stack traces in the context of a full request trace.sematext.com · 7 Oct 2026
Performance insights
Tracing provides latency breakdowns, P50/P95/P99 percentiles, RED metrics, and database query performance insights.sematext.com · 7 Oct 2026
Languages and frameworks
The product lists support for Java, Python, Node.js, Go, .NET, Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, iOS/Swift, Android, Spring, Django, Express, Rails, React, Vue, and Svelte.sematext.com · 7 Oct 2026
Deployment
The product page says it can be deployed on Kubernetes, Docker, containers, or bare metal.sematext.com · 7 Oct 2026
Sampling
Users can configure head-based sampling to always sample errors and high-latency requests while sampling normal traffic at lower rates.sematext.com · 7 Oct 2026
Alerting
Users can set alerts on latency thresholds, error rates, or custom span attributes and integrate them with incident management workflows.sematext.com · 7 Oct 2026
Plans and limits
Pricing depends on plan tier, daily span volume, and retention; the pricing page specifies 2M, 5M, and 20M spans/day tiers and 1-day Basic versus 7-day Standard/Pro retention.sematext.com · 7 Oct 2026
Trial
The Tracing page offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required.sematext.com · 7 Oct 2026
Support
The product page links to production support, and the company page says Sematext provides production support for Elasticsearch, the ELK/Elastic Stack, and Apache Solr.sematext.com · 7 Oct 2026
Company history
Sematext’s company history says it launched as Sematext International in Spring 2010.sematext.com · 7 Oct 2026

Company

Headquarters
Brooklyn, New York, USAsematext.com · 28 Sept 2026

Best Sematext Tracing alternatives

See all 20

Where it ranks on Inferse

Sources