[ankitnayan]

Grafana, for long, has been used to monitor time-series data and recently has been moving towards observability (including traces and logs). We are different in quite a few fronts.

1. There are specific observabilty specific UI widgets like serviceMap, SLOs and error budgets, I don't know whether Grafana provides it now. Also, last I used Grafana, linking and moving from one dashboard to another is still a pain. You can get a better idea of how different observability UI can get from Grafana by looking into LightStep demo.

2. We can run aggregated on filtered traces. Eg, I can get 99th percentile response time of a tag say payment_channel. am afraid this can be extracted from traces by Grafana.

3. SigNoz is easily extendible by adding your stream processing application to slice n dice data in your own way