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Monitoring & APM

10 providers in this category.

Monitoring and APM platforms track the health and performance of applications and infrastructure: metrics and traces, and increasingly logs and real-user monitoring in one place. They help teams find and fix slowdowns and outages before users feel them. Weigh free tier, breadth of coverage (APM, infrastructure, logs, RUM), open-source options, and self-hosting.

Companies

Neutral ordering. Not a recommendation.

10 results

Chronosphere

chronosphere.io

Chronosphere is an observability platform built for cloud-native and Kubernetes environments, with a particular focus on controlling the cost of metrics data at scale.

$$$ Premiumusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, App performance monitoring +2Maturity, operating 7 years

Coroot

coroot.com

Coroot is an open-source, eBPF-powered observability platform that automatically collects metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with no code changes, then builds a service map and performs root-cause analysis.

$ Budgetusage-based pricing
Strengths
Openness, Open-source & self-hostableFree tier, Free plan availableValue, Budget tierCapability, App performance monitoring +2

Datadog

www.datadoghq.com

Datadog is a full-stack monitoring and observability platform that brings infrastructure metrics, application performance monitoring (APM), log management, and real user monitoring (RUM) together in one place.

$$ Midfrom $15/mo · Last reviewed May 2026
Strengths
Capability, App performance monitoring +3Free tier, Free plan availableValue, Mid tier

Dynatrace

www.dynatrace.com

Dynatrace is an enterprise observability and application security platform that combines infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, and real user monitoring with automated, AI-assisted analysis.

$$$ Premiumusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, App performance monitoring +3Maturity, operating 21 years

Grafana Cloud

grafana.com/products/cloud

Grafana Cloud is the managed observability platform from Grafana Labs, bundling metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and real user monitoring into one hosted service.

$ Budgetusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, App performance monitoring +3Openness, Open-source & self-hostableFree tier, Free plan availableValue, Budget tier

Groundcover

www.groundcover.com

Groundcover is a cloud-native observability platform built on a proprietary eBPF sensor that captures logs, metrics, traces, APM, and RUM with zero code changes.

$$ Midusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, App performance monitoring +3Free tier, Free plan availableOpenness, Self-hostableValue, Mid tier

Honeycomb

www.honeycomb.io

Honeycomb is an observability tool focused on high-cardinality event data and distributed tracing for debugging complex production systems.

$$ Midusage-based pricing
Strengths
Free tier, Free plan availableValue, Mid tier

New Relic

newrelic.com

New Relic is an observability platform covering application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, log management, and real user monitoring across the full software stack.

$$ Midusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, App performance monitoring +3Free tier, Free plan availableValue, Mid tier

SigNoz

signoz.io

SigNoz is an open-source, OpenTelemetry-native observability platform providing APM, distributed tracing, metrics, log management, and alerting in a single tool backed by ClickHouse.

$$$ Premiumfrom $49/mo · Last reviewed May 2026
Strengths
Capability, App performance monitoring +3Openness, Open-source & self-hostableFree tier, Free plan available

Splunk AppDynamics

www.appdynamics.com

Splunk AppDynamics is an enterprise application performance monitoring platform, now part of Cisco and Splunk, that traces transactions and ties application behavior to business impact.

$$$ Premiumusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, App performance monitoring +3Maturity, operating 18 years