I tried both. Signoz is pretty sloppily built. For ex the self hosted option starts a ZK instance with 1 clickhouse host-no way to disable, 800MB ram. Signoz log transformation tool is broken and confusing.
HyperDX is just a lot better, sure a few papercuts but they got all the important stuff right imo.
Can you share which version of SigNoz did you try or what time frame? We recently made a lot of improvement in how you can host SigNoz including support for Postgres and better docs fro self hosting corretcly - https://signoz.io/docs/collection-agents/get-started/
You can also consider https://coroot.com - it supports integration both with Collector and without as well as simulated eBPF traces for applications which are not Otel enabled.
