Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/kubernetes/minikube/vs/SigNoz/signoz
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/kubernetes/minikube/vs/SigNoz/signoz.md
Description: minikube and signoz share 7 technologies: Google, golang.org/x/oauth2, OpenTelemetry, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace. Both are written in Go.

# minikube vs signoz

minikube and signoz share 7 technologies: Google, golang.org/x/oauth2, OpenTelemetry, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace. Both are written in Go.

- [kubernetes/minikube](https://seerepo.com/r/kubernetes/minikube): Run Kubernetes locally
- [SigNoz/signoz](https://seerepo.com/r/SigNoz/signoz): SigNoz is an open-source, OpenTelemetry-native observability platform for your team and their AI agents. Get logs, metrics, and traces in one tool with features like APM, distributed tracing, log management, infra monitoring, etc. Combined with SigNoz MCP and a native AI teammate (in SigNoz Cloud) it helps you build more resilient apps.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Google, golang.org/x/oauth2, OpenTelemetry, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace
- Only in minikube: net/http, GitHub, plot, github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter, github.com/cheggaaa/pb/v3, github.com/briandowns/spinner, github.com/jmoiron/sqlx, github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v5, cluster-bootstrap, k8s.io/klog/v2, github.com/docker/docker, github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/exporter/metric, github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/exporter/trace, github.com/moby/moby/api, github.com/moby/moby/client
- Only in signoz: Gorilla, Gin, go-redis, pgx, redisotel, ClickHouse, github.com/dgraph-io/ristretto/v2, SQLite, Postgres, Redis, github.com/ClickHouse/ch-go, go.opentelemetry.io/collector/otelcol, Vite, React, react-router-dom, Sentry, PostHog, history, github.com/coreos/go-oidc/v3, github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5, github.com/sethvargo/go-password, github.com/russellhaering/goxmldsig, github.com/yuin/goldmark, github.com/emersion/go-smtp, github.com/swaggest/jsonschema-go, github.com/swaggest/openapi-go, github.com/go-playground/validator/v10, Prometheus, github.com/prometheus/common, github.com/prometheus/prometheus, github.com/prometheus/client_golang, go.uber.org/zap, go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus, classnames, styled-components, Ant Design, @uiw/codemirror-theme-github, antd, uplot, React Hook Form, dnd-kit, react-virtuoso, TanStack, Chart.js, monaco-editor, CodeMirror, @uiw/react-codemirror, react-grid-layout, visx, overlayscrollbars, react-resizable, motion, react-dnd, react-full-screen, overlayscrollbars-react, react-dnd-html5-backend, react-helmet-async, react-syntax-highlighter, @lezer/highlight, chartjs-adapter-date-fns, chartjs-plugin-annotation, D3, react-drag-listview, react-force-graph-2d, react-json-tree, react-rnd, papaparse, react-markdown, remark-gfm, ansi-to-html, dompurify, html-to-image, rehype-raw, Zod

## Side by side

| | minikube | signoz |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 167,179 lines written, 597 code files | 1,140,219 lines written, 4,838 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With GitHub Copilot | 1.2% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 7, 2026, 19,258 commits, 32,228 stars | Last push November 7, 2026, 6,633 commits, 32,545 stars |
| Tests | 247 test files. 38.4% of its code files have a test that imports them | 2,063 test files. 37.5% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, minikube or signoz?

signoz, with 1,140,219 lines written; minikube has 167,179.

The proof: [SigNoz/signoz's code at commit 94367f4](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/tree/94367f4575d24f338ceba6038d2bdeab73634185)

### Which has more GitHub stars, minikube or signoz?

signoz, with 32,545 stars; minikube has 32,228.

The proof: [SigNoz/signoz on GitHub](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz)

### Which has more tests, minikube or signoz?

signoz, with 2,063 test files; minikube has 247.

The proof: [SigNoz/signoz's code at commit 94367f4](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/tree/94367f4575d24f338ceba6038d2bdeab73634185)

### Which was updated more recently, minikube or signoz?

Both got their last push on November 7, 2026.

The proof: [kubernetes/minikube's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, minikube or signoz?

signoz: an AI signed 1.2% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor; in minikube, 0.1%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in SigNoz/signoz](https://seerepo.com/r/SigNoz/signoz/ai)

## Sources

- kubernetes/minikube: Read on November 7, 2026, at commit a44f248 (https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/tree/a44f2481387bf680725418cb889eae855ba66ee2)
- SigNoz/signoz: Read on November 7, 2026, at commit 94367f4 (https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/tree/94367f4575d24f338ceba6038d2bdeab73634185)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.