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Prometheus8.9
Datadog Metrics9.2
Grafana Mimir8.7
Elasticsearch (ELK)8.8Grafana Loki8.5
Splunk8.6
New Relic APM8.9Datadog APM9.1
Dynatrace9
UptimeRobot8.3
Pingdom8.5
Checkly8.8Prometheus8.9Datadog Metrics9.2Grafana Mimir8.7Elasticsearch (ELK)8.8Grafana Loki8.5Splunk8.6New Relic APM8.9Datadog APM9.1Dynatrace9UptimeRobot8.3Pingdom8.5Checkly8.8Software Categories
Explore observability tools organized by their primary capabilities. Find the right solution for your specific monitoring needs.
Metrics Monitoring
Track and visualize system and application metrics in real-time
Log Management
Collect, analyze, and search through logs from all your systems
Application Performance Monitoring
Monitor application performance, trace requests, and identify bottlenecks
Synthetic Monitoring
Proactively test and monitor your applications from external locations
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Prometheus
Open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit
Datadog Metrics
Cloud-scale metrics monitoring
Grafana Mimir
Scalable long-term storage for Prometheus
Elasticsearch (ELK)
Distributed search and analytics engine
Grafana Loki
Like Prometheus, but for logs
Splunk
Data platform for security & observability
New Relic APM
Full-stack application performance monitoring
Datadog APM
End-to-end distributed tracing
Dynatrace
AI-powered application intelligence
UptimeRobot
Simple and reliable uptime monitoring
Pingdom
Website performance and uptime monitoring
Checkly
Monitoring as code for modern DevOps
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