# Coroot vs SigNoz

Comprehensive comparison of observability platforms: architecture, features, costs, and deployment models

### Platform Model
On-premises first vs Cloud-first SaaS

### Data Storage
On-premises vs Cloud-managed platforms

### Pricing Model
Simple per-CPU vs Usage-based billing

## Architecture & Technology
Fundamentally different approaches to observability

### Coroot

🔒 On-Premises Complete Platform  
**Full observability stack on your infrastructure.** Store ALL data without compromise, enterprise-grade guarantees, complete control over your observability pipeline.

Hybrid Data Collection  
eBPF auto-instrumentation + OpenTelemetry compatibility - best of both worlds

Store Everything  
No data sampling compromises - 10x compression means unlimited retention without cost fears

Full AI Root Cause Analysis  
Complete intelligent incident analysis - not just chat assistance but actual RCA automation.

[Learn more about AI features →](https://coroot.com/ai)

Zero Configuration Setup  
Pre-built dashboards, alerts, and inspections - insights within minutes, not months of setup

Enterprise Control & Support  
Commercial support with SLAs, professional services, air-gapped deployments, unlimited customization.

[Explore enterprise features →](https://coroot.com/enterprise)

### SigNoz

☁️ Cloud-First Observability Platform  
**OpenTelemetry-native observability platform.** Modern approach to monitoring with flexible deployment options but requires instrumentation setup.

OpenTelemetry Integration  
Native OpenTelemetry support with standardized instrumentation across languages

Usage-Based Storage  
Cloud-managed storage with transparent pricing but costs scale with data volume

Standard Alerting & Dashboards  
Traditional alerting capabilities with manual investigation workflows - no automated RCA

Quick Cloud Setup  
Fast deployment with managed infrastructure but requires OpenTelemetry instrumentation

SOC2 & HIPAA Compliance  
Cloud compliance with SOC2 Type II and HIPAA certifications, community and paid support

## Feature Comparison

| Feature | Coroot | SigNoz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Metrics & Infrastructure Monitoring | Comprehensive telemetry via eBPF including network monitoring | Infrastructure monitoring with OpenTelemetry-native metrics collection |
| Distributed Tracing | eBPF auto-tracing + OpenTelemetry compatibility | Native OpenTelemetry distributed tracing with correlation |
| Log Management | Automated discovery & shipping, pattern extraction, ClickHouse 10x compression | Log aggregation with filtering, search, and correlation |
| AI-Powered Root Cause Analysis | Integrated RCA across metrics, logs, traces automatically | No root cause analysis capabilities - manual investigation required |
| SLO Tracking & Alerting | Built-in SLO monitoring with integrated RCA | No SLO monitoring capabilities - relies on manual threshold-based alerting |
| Database Monitoring | Major OSS databases: Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis - integrated with RCA | Basic database metrics collection through OpenTelemetry instrumentation |
| Continuous Profiling | Always-on profiling with <1% overhead - pinpoint performance bottlenecks down to exact line of code | Continuous profiling not available in current offering |
| Cloud Cost Monitoring | Automatic cloud cost tracking without account access - calculates cross-AZ and egress costs per application | Not available - requires separate cloud cost management tools |
| Real User Monitoring (RUM) | Not available - backend/infrastructure focused | Basic frontend monitoring with Core Web Vitals and browser tracing - limited to web applications only |
| Synthetic Monitoring | Not available - focuses on internal observability | Not available - focuses on application and infrastructure monitoring |

## Cost Analysis

### Coroot

Community Edition:  
Free  
Complete observability platform

Enterprise:  
$1/CPU core  
Monthly subscription per CPU core

#### What's included:
- Unlimited data retention
- No per-GB storage charges
- All features included
- On-premises infrastructure

### SigNoz

Self-hosted:  
Free  
Open source, deploy on your infrastructure

Cloud Teams Plan:  
$49/month base  
$0.30/GB logs & traces, $0.10/million metrics

#### Cloud additional costs:
- Log ingestion: $0.30/GB (beyond base credits)
- Trace ingestion: $0.30/GB (beyond base credits)
- Metrics: $0.10/million samples (beyond base credits)
- Cloud infrastructure managed by SigNoz

### Example: 50-Host Environment

#### Coroot Enterprise

Coroot licenses (200 cores × $1) $200  
Infrastructure (4 vCPU, 16GB RAM) $120  
Storage (1TB SSD - 2x replication) $80  
Total monthly cost $400  
\* 1TB = 5TB compressed 10x with 2x replication for HA

#### SigNoz Cloud

Base monthly fee $49  
Logs (3TB × $0.30) $900  
Traces (2TB × $0.30) $600  
Metrics (100M samples × $0.10) $10  
Usage credit from base fee - $49  
Total monthly cost $1,510  
Monthly savings with Coroot: $1,110 (3.8x less expensive)  
\* Coroot includes infrastructure costs for ClickHouse, Prometheus, and storage. ClickHouse provides 10x compression reducing storage costs significantly. SigNoz based on moderate enterprise usage: 3TB logs/month, 2TB trace ingestion, 100M metrics/month. At higher data volumes, SigNoz costs increase significantly while Coroot remains flat. Actual costs vary significantly based on usage patterns, data volume, and cloud provider pricing.

## When to Choose Each Platform

### Choose Coroot If:
- Your observability bill exceeds $50k/year
- 3.8x cost savings will pay for infrastructure team time
- You need air-gapped deployment
- Banking, defense, healthcare, regulated industries requiring complete data control
- You want zero-code instrumentation
- eBPF monitoring without touching application code or deployment pipelines
- You need advanced AI for incident response
- Automated root cause analysis to reduce MTTR significantly
- You want continuous profiling included
- Built-in profiling without additional costs or complexity

### Choose SigNoz If:
- You prefer managed cloud services
- Want observability without infrastructure management overhead
- You're already using OpenTelemetry
- Native OpenTelemetry integration with existing instrumentation
- You have low to moderate data volumes
- Under 500GB/month total data ingestion across all telemetry
- You need quick setup and deployment
- Rapid onboarding with cloud-first architecture and managed infrastructure
- You want deployment flexibility
- Choose between cloud and self-hosted based on your requirements.