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qryn vs Railway
Railway is a platform for deploying apps and databases, not an observability stack like qryn.
Which to pick
Pick qryn if you want…
- All-in-one polyglot observability
- A free, open-source tool
- Integrations with Loki, Prometheus or Tempo (on qryn's list, not Railway's)
Pick Railway if you want…
- All-in-one cloud deployment and scaling
- App deployment platform
- Integrations with GitHub, Docker or Railway CLI (on Railway's list, not qryn's)
Side by side
- What it is
- qryn:qryn is an open-source polyglot observability stack with OLAP storage compatible with Loki, Prometheus, Tempo and more.
- Railway:Railway is a full-stack cloud platform that lets developers deploy apps, databases and services with automatic scaling, monitoring and networking.
- Best for
- qryn:All-in-one polyglot observability
- Railway:All-in-one cloud deployment and scaling
- Who it’s for
- qryn:Developers and engineers needing unified logs, metrics, traces and profiling.
- Railway:Developers and teams who want to ship web apps and services without managing infrastructure.
- Pricing
- qryn:Open source
- Railway:Freemium
- Plans
- qryn:—
- Railway:Free Free · Hobby Free
- Open source
- qryn:Yes
- Railway:—
- Works with
- qryn:Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Pyroscope, OpenTelemetry, InfluxDB, Datadog, Elastic
- Railway:GitHub, Docker, Railway CLI
qryn features
- Polyglot compatibility. Drop-in support for Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Pyroscope and other observability formats.
- OLAP engine. Powered by ClickHouse for fast, columnar queries across logs, metrics and traces.
- Familiar query languages. Use LogQL, PromQL and TempoQL to query and visualize data.
- Broad ingestion. Ingest data via OpenTelemetry, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Influx, Datadog, Elastic and more.
- Built-in Explorer & CLI. Explore data locally or via Grafana datasource compatibility.
- Self-hosted storage options. Store data in ClickHouse, DuckDB or InfluxDB IOx with optional S3 backing.
- Lightweight runtime. Runs on Bun, a fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime.
- Unmetered open source. Unlimited self-hosted deployments with a commercial cloud option for advanced features.
Railway features
- One-click Deploy. Connect a repo and Railway auto-configures, builds and deploys the app instantly.
- Visual Project Canvas. See and edit the entire stack, networking and resources on a visual canvas.
- Instant Networking. Private connections, public endpoints, SSL and load balancing are provisioned automatically.
- Auto Scaling & Replicas. Scale CPU, RAM or add replicas with load balancing, globally.
- Built-in Observability. Logs, metrics, traces and alerts are available in a single dashboard.
- Preview Environments. Every pull request gets an isolated preview environment with one-click rollbacks.
qryn vs Railway FAQ
Is qryn or Railway free?+
qryn is free and open source. Railway has a free plan and paid plans.
Is qryn or Railway open source?+
qryn is open source (metrico/qryn on GitHub). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for Railway.
Do qryn and Railway integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: qryn lists Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Pyroscope and 8 more; Railway lists GitHub, Docker and Railway CLI.
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