I have recent experience only with: graphite, uptimekuma, moira - I would certainly recommend for small shops.
I believe what makes it work is the glue, ie. what it integrates with: connect with application logging (log4j), notification with slack.
A few years back I was working with splunk (but this is another galaxy when it comes to cost) and ELK stack. But this was only for logging, not full observability.
I have not used SigNoz or ClickStack. I believe both are very good products that focus on slightly different things.
With Traceway I am trying to focus on providing a pre configured system that works out of the box, tells you whats wrong and what to fix. It comes with a great issue tracker, session replays/RUM, preconfigured Dashboards and it's easy to host. It has an alerting integrations with Slack and Github. The idea is to be proactive rather than reactive when you start growing, so rather than waiting for a failure to build out an SLO it comes with them included.
Based on what you're looking for Traceway may or may not be the best option for you, but all feedback is welcome and I am working on improving it every day. You can checkout the github + it's super easy to self host and I am always down to chat about how it works in the Traceway Discord.
I keep seeing you pop up... good to meet you. I'm new to the platform and find all this very interesting... and to think - I was making a better logger for a godot game...
I believe what makes it work is the glue, ie. what it integrates with: connect with application logging (log4j), notification with slack.
A few years back I was working with splunk (but this is another galaxy when it comes to cost) and ELK stack. But this was only for logging, not full observability.