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Replace Amazon CloudWatch + X-Ray with SigNoz + Grafana.

SigNoz for distributed tracing and APM (OpenTelemetry native) with Grafana for dashboards. Full observability without vendor lock-in. Self-hosted, no per-trace or per-span fees.

You'd keep~R22 200 to ~R111 000/year

Current licence  ·  Infrastructure

Amazon CloudWatch + X-Ray

~R22 200 – ~R111 000/yr

10-user estimate

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SigNoz + Grafana

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R111 000/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Amazon CloudWatch + X-Ray's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Standard (1M traces/mo)

R22 200/yr

R1 850/month

Estimated monthly

With SigNoz + Grafana

Keep R22 200/yr

Heavy (10M traces/mo)

R111 000/yr

R9 250/month

Estimated monthly

With SigNoz + Grafana

Keep R111 000/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Amazon CloudWatch + X-Ray grows around 10% per year on average. SigNoz + Grafana hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR49kR98kR147kR197kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R179kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.78M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Amazon CloudWatch + X-RaySigNoz + Grafana, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.