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OpenPanel vs Pinpoint
A side-by-side editorial comparison of OpenPanel and Pinpoint — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
OpenPanel vs Pinpoint: at a glance
What is OpenPanel?
OpenPanel moves from 3.18 to 3.20 in two days, still without a word of release notes.
OpenPanel tagged supporter builds 3.19.0 and 3.20.0 on November 1, three hours apart, after six builds between October 29 and 30 that took it from 3.17.0 to 3.18.2. Each entry is a build of main installed with openpanel upgrade --supporter, and none describes what changed; public self-hosting releases come from a separate tag. The only other recent entry is an SDK patch, 1.3.3.
What is Pinpoint?
Pinpoint 4.0 takes OpenTelemetry traces without its agent; 3.1.1 tames reactive overhead.
Pinpoint, the open-source APM, opened its 4.0 line on 29 October: services on by default, OpenTelemetry traces ingested without the Pinpoint agent, and service-based alarms. A month earlier, 3.1.1 cut agent overhead on Reactor, WebFlux and Kotlin coroutine workloads, added Spring Framework 7 compatibility and hardened the Web and Batch modules, with no schema changes.
OpenPanel vs Pinpoint: editorial side-by-side
OpenPanel
5.0ANALYTICS
OpenPanel moves from 3.18 to 3.20 in two days, still without a word of release notes.
◆ Current state
OpenPanel tagged supporter builds 3.19.0 and 3.20.0 on November 1, three hours apart, after six builds between October 29 and 30 that took it from 3.17.0 to 3.18.2. Each entry is a build of main installed with openpanel upgrade --supporter, and none describes what changed; public self-hosting releases come from a separate tag. The only other recent entry is an SDK patch, 1.3.3.
◆ Where it's heading
Minor versions are moving at a pace of several per week, which points to active work on main, but the feed exposes only commit hashes. Supporters get changes first, which makes early access the paid perk while the open-source release lags.
◆ Prediction
More note-free supporter builds are the likeliest next entries; whether a public self-hosting release with a changelog follows is unclear from the feed.
Pinpoint
3.8ANALYTICS
Pinpoint 4.0 takes OpenTelemetry traces without its agent; 3.1.1 tames reactive overhead.
◆ Current state
Pinpoint, the open-source APM, opened its 4.0 line on 29 October: services on by default, OpenTelemetry traces ingested without the Pinpoint agent, and service-based alarms. A month earlier, 3.1.1 cut agent overhead on Reactor, WebFlux and Kotlin coroutine workloads, added Spring Framework 7 compatibility and hardened the Web and Batch modules, with no schema changes.
◆ Where it's heading
Pinpoint is loosening the tie between its backend and its own Java agent, which widens who can send it data. The 3.x line keeps the agent fast on modern reactive stacks while 4.0 takes the platform changes, the same split between rare structural jumps and steady patch work seen across 3.0 and 3.1.
◆ Prediction
Expect 4.0.x patches settling OpenTelemetry ingest and the services model, with 3.1.x receiving backports in parallel as 3.0.x did after 3.1.0.
Alternatives to OpenPanel and Pinpoint
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either OpenPanel or Pinpoint.
Deepnote
Deepnote's agent now runs from first prompt to finished notebook without handoffs.
Apache Storm
Storm 3.1 adds an Iceberg sink and closes a long list of security gaps in Nimbus and the UI.
Apache HertzBeat
HertzBeat's 1.9.0 is on its second release candidate, and the feed still skips 1.8.0.
Apache TsFile
TsFile 2.5 adds Go to its Java, C++ and Python implementations.
Glances
After a year of CVE fixes, Glances 4.5.7 turns to making its alerts tell the truth.
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Recent activity from OpenPanel and Pinpoint
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 20h agoOpenPanel3.20.0: supporter build, no notes
- 23h agoOpenPanel3.19.0: supporter build, no notes
- 2d agoOpenPanel3.18.2: supporter build, no notes
- 2d agoOpenPanel@openpanel/[email protected]: chore(sdk): release @openpanel/sdk 1.3.3
- 2d agoOpenPanel3.18.1: supporter build, no notes
- 2d agoOpenPanel3.18.0: supporter build, no notes
- 4d agoPinpoint4.0.0 release ⚡
- 1mo agoPinpointPinpoint 3.1.1 cuts agent overhead on reactive Java apps
- 5mo agoPinpoint3.1.0 rebuilds ServerMap and lifts application names to 254 characters ⚡
- 7mo agoPinpoint3.0.5: backports and a move to Central Portal publishing
- 11mo agoPinpoint3.0.4 adds Java 26, Kafka Streams and nested Spring Boot JAR support
- 1y agoPinpoint3.0.3 adds an S3 client plugin and Kafka 4.x compatibility
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between OpenPanel and Pinpoint?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. OpenPanel is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 3.8), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 1. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is OpenPanel better than Pinpoint?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. OpenPanel is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 3.8), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 1. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to OpenPanel?
Top OpenPanel alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "OpenPanel alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/openpanel for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Pinpoint?
Top Pinpoint alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Pinpoint alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/pinpoint for the full list with editorial commentary on each.