ClickStack/HyperDX Alternative
SigNoz gives you interactive dashboards, anomaly detection-based alerting, and PromQL
support. You're billed on how much data you ingest, not how often you query it.
A Quick Evaluation
| Feature | SigNoz | ClickStack |
|---|---|---|
| Dashboard Drill-downs | Logs, traces & metrics | View-only |
| Dashboard Variables | ||
| Pre-built Dashboards | 30+ importable templates | 3 presets |
| Alert Creation | Alerts tab, dashboards, or queries | No dedicated alerts workflow |
| Anomaly Detection | ||
| Alert History | Yes, with attribute breakdowns | |
| Query Language | PromQL, visual builder & SQL | Lucene-style search & SQL |
| Query Cost | No charge for querying | Billed as variable compute |
| State Store | PostgreSQL/SQLite (bundled) | MongoDB (managed separately) |
| Supported Ingestion Formats | OTLP, Jaeger, Kafka, Zipkin, OpenCensus | OTLP, ClickHouse HTTP, Vector |
| Deployment Options | Open source + Cloud (GA) | Open source + Cloud (Beta) |
Dashboards That Help You Investigate
the exact logs and traces behind it, with all your filters intact.
Interactive Dashboards
Cross-filtering and dashboard variables
Pre-built dashboard templates
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
- Kubernetes
- MySQL, MongoDB, AWS RDS
- Host metrics
ClickStack dashboards
- ClickStack dashboards are static. You can observe but you cannot investigate from where you stand.
- ClickStack does not support dashboard variables. Updating the service you are looking at means editing every panel query individually.
- ClickStack ships with 3 presets: Services, Kubernetes, and ClickHouse monitoring. Every additional dashboard is built from scratch.
Alerting That Tells You What Matters
full alert history. ClickStack is limited to creating alerts from search or dashboard context only.
Creating alerts
SigNoz gives you three ways to create an alert: from the dedicated Alerts tab, directly from a dashboard panel, or from the query builder. Whichever path you take, the alert is configured in context of the data you are already looking at.
ClickStack has no dedicated alerts workflow. Alerts can only be created from a search or a dashboard, which means alert management is always a detour from your current investigation.
Anomaly detection
SigNoz supports Z-score based anomaly detection for metric alerts. The system accounts for seasonality at three levels: hourly, daily, and weekly. This means your alerts adapt to expected traffic patterns rather than firing on normal fluctuations.
ClickStack does not support anomaly detection.
Alert history
SigNoz maintains a full alert history with attribute breakdowns. You can see which specific attribute values, like a service name or a Kubernetes pod, contributed most to triggering an alert over time.
ClickStack does not maintain alert history.
Multi-threshold rules
A single alert rule in SigNoz can have multiple severity thresholds: warning, critical, and info. Each threshold can route to a different notification channel, so your on-call engineer gets paged for critical while the team Slack channel gets a summary. ClickStacksupports one threshold per alert.
Infrastructure as code
SigNoz provides a Terraform provider for alert management. Alerts can be defined, version controlled, and deployed alongside application code. The provider supports thresholds, labels, notification channels, and maintenance windows. ClickStack does not offer this.
Query Your Data, Any Way You Want
SigNoz supports PromQL, a visual query builder, and SQL across logs, traces, and metrics.
ClickStack supports Lucene search and SQL only.
PromQL, visual builder, and SQL
Your existing PromQL queries work without modification. The visual builder supports AND/OR logic, CONTAINS, REGEX, IN, and LIKE operators with autocomplete.
Consistent Querying Across All Signals
SigNoz gives you the same query interfaces across logs, traces, and metrics. In ClickStack, Lucene search is scoped to logs only.
No 'Query Tax'
Querying is included in your ingestion pricing. In ClickStack, query compute is billed separately and scales with how much you query.
Pricing
You shouldn't pay to investigate your own data
ClickStack's
billing
complexity
ClickStack pricing details 1. Storage costs
ClickStack's headline rate is less than $0.03/GB per month. This covers data at rest in object storage only. It does not include the compute required to ingest or query that data.
2. Ingest compute
Processing incoming data runs continuously and is billed separately. ClickStack publishes one benchmark here: each core sustains up to 20MB/s of writes, translating to roughly $0.01/GB for ingest compute. This is estimable.
3. Query compute
Every dashboard load, search, and incident investigation consumes compute billed separately at variable rates. No published benchmark or worked example exists for query compute costs. This is the dimension that spikes most during incidents.
4. Data transfer and egress
Data transfer and egress fees apply as a fourth cost dimension. No published rate exists in ClickStack's documentation.
Simple
usage-based
pricing
SigNoz eliminates query costs, dashboard fees, and API charges. Pay only for data volume ingested.
Use the calculator below to estimate costs, then track actual usage with Cost Meter to catch unexpected bursts before they impact your bill.
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Your data stays where you want
Use SigNoz cloud with your data staying in the US, EU, or India, or self-host.
Cloud
Fully managed, SOC 2-compliant, ideal for teams who want to start quickly without managing infrastructure.
Self-Host
For tighter security & data residency requirements. It is Apache 2.0 open source, built on open standards.
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