Pinpoint

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Free

Open source

Yes (Apache-2.0)

Self-hosted

Yes

Launched

2015

Status

Active

Website

pinpoint-apm.gitbook.io

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

Tracing and APM checklist

8 of 10 confirmed in Pinpoint's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Tracing and APM.

• + Distributed tracing Yes
• ? OTLP traces ingest Not confirmed
• + Service map Yes
• + Auto-instrumentation Yes
• + Database query analysis Yes
• + Error capture Yes
• + Latency and error alerts Yes
• + Trace to log correlation Yes
• ? Sampling controls Not confirmed
• + Code-level detail Yes

OpenTelemetry support documented for metrics only.

Checked against: github.com, pinpoint-apm.gitbook.io, pinpoint-apm.gitbook.io (2)

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