OTel-native · Zero egress · Cloudflare Workers

Stop paying
Datadog's
egress tax.

Your traces, logs, and metrics in your own Cloudflare R2. 70–90% cheaper. OTel-native. Terminal-first.

No credit card required · Your data stays yours · 500 MB free forever

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0%Cheaper than Datadog
$0Egress fees
0 GBOn $49/mo included
0hHot index TTL

Zero Egress Fees

Your telemetry never leaves Cloudflare's network. No egress. No transfer fees. Ever.

# Before (Datadog)
Egress fees/month$847.00
# After (Lightarch)
Egress fees/month$0

Data Sovereignty

Your R2 bucket. Your Iceberg table. Compliance is a side effect of the architecture.

GDPRHIPAA-ready

OTel Native

One env var. All runtimes.

OTEL_EXPORTER
_OTLP_ENDPOINT
= la-ingest...

Terminal First

Debug production without leaving your shell.

$ la trace fetch a1b2c3d4
├─ GET /api/user 12ms
│ └─ db.query 8ms
└─ ✗ auth.verify 340ms

Cloudflare Native

Runs in the same colo as your Workers. Ingest latency <1ms globally. No cold starts.

330+ edge locations · <1ms ingest

Unified Signals

Same trace_id across traces, logs, and metrics. Correlation is automatic.

TracesLogsMetricsAlerts

See it in action

From alert to root cause in one click.

Click through the same investigation your on-call engineer would run.

lightarch — logs
service:checkout severity:ERROR |
1h24h7d

How we compare

Same observability.

A fraction of the cost. Your data.

Feature
Lightarch
Datadog
SigNoz
BetterStack
100 GB/month
$49
$4,500+
Self-hosted
$29 (capped)
Egress cost
$0
$0.09–0.15/GB
Your infra
Variable
Data ownership
Your R2
Vendor
Your infra
Vendor
OTel native
Terminal CLI
Unlimited retention
Cloudflare native

◈ Lightarch wins on 5 of 7 criteria — and the ones it doesn't are intentional trade-offs (we don't self-host your infra).

Setup in 5 minutes

Three commands. Then you're done.

01

Install

terminal
 
 
 
 

One package. Works with Express, Fastify, Next.js, Hono.

02

Configure

terminal
 
 
 
 
 

No config file. No import order. Just env vars.

03

Ship it

terminal
 
 
 
 

Spans appear in the dashboard within seconds.

Simple, sovereign pricing

Pay for data. Not seats.

Every plan includes unlimited seats. You pay for what you ingest — nothing else.

Free

$0/month

500 MB hard cap

For side projects & evaluation

  • 500 MB ingest/month
  • 7-day hot retention
  • 1 seat included
  • OTel ingest (traces, logs, metrics)
  • Basic alerts
Most popular

Pro Team

$49/month

~163 GB of traces & logs

$0.30/GB overage · unlimited seats

  • $49/mo credit — use it all
  • ~163 GB traces/logs included
  • Unlimited seats
  • Alerts + anomaly detection
  • Error tracking + source maps
  • $0.30/GB after credit

Enterprise

$499/month

~1,663 GB of traces & logs

$0.20/GB overage · BYOB R2 · SLA

  • $499/mo credit — use it all
  • ~1,663 GB traces/logs included
  • BYOB (bring your own R2)
  • Unlimited seats + SSO/SAML
  • 99.9% SLA + priority support
  • $0.20/GB after credit

Your data. Your R2. No egress, no per-host fees, no surprises.

Get started in 5 minutes

Start observing.
Own your data.

500 MB free. No credit card. Your data in your R2.

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