Deploy and Host SigNoz on Railway

SigNoz is an open-source observability platform that enables you to collect, store, and analyze distributed application traces, metrics, and logs using the OpenTelemetry standard.

About Hosting SigNoz

When you deploy SigNoz on Railway, the following core services are provisioned:

SigNoz
SigNoz Otel Collector
ClickHouse
Zookeeper

The Railway template automatically sets up these services with the necessary environment variables, health checks, and persistent storage. This allows you to quickly go from deployment to creating dashboards. Simply point your application's OpenTelemetry SDK or agent to the provided ingest URL, and SigNoz will immediately begin visualizing service dependencies, latency, and errors.

Common Use Cases

Application Performance Monitoring: Monitor metrics, logs, and traces across your entire Railway application stack.
Debugging and Troubleshooting: Correlate logs, metrics, and traces to quickly identify and resolve issues.
Infrastructure Observability: Monitor system health, resource usage, and service dependencies in real time.
Alerting and Incident Response: Set up alerts based on metrics and log patterns for proactive incident management.

Dependencies for SigNoz Hosting

Persistent Storage — Use a Railway volume (or external block storage) for ClickHouse and SigNoz data.
Ingest Traffic — Applications should export OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, or logs over HTTP or gRPC.

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

To run the SigNoz stack on Railway, ensure the following:

OpenTelemetry Ingestion
- You may need to configure Domains/Proxy settings in Railway for the signoz-otel-collector service, depending on your use case.
- By default, port 4317 is open for ingestion.
SigNoz UI
- A public domain is configured by default in Railway to access the SigNoz UI.

Why Deploy

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying SigNoz on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.