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Metrics Monitoring
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Prometheus
8.9/10
Datadog Metrics
9.2/10
Open source vs enterprise metrics monitoring
Prometheus
8.9/10
Grafana Mimir
8.7/10
Standard Prometheus vs scalable long-term storage
Datadog Metrics
9.2/10
Grafana Mimir
8.7/10
SaaS convenience vs open source scalability
Log Management
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Elasticsearch (ELK)
8.8/10
Grafana Loki
8.5/10
Full-text search vs label-based log aggregation
Elasticsearch (ELK)
8.8/10
Splunk
8.6/10
Open source ELK vs enterprise Splunk
Grafana Loki
8.5/10
Splunk
8.6/10
Cost-effective logging vs enterprise features
Application Performance Monitoring
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Synthetic Monitoring
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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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