Observability tools with a free plan in 2026

Understand what a system is doing from its telemetry: metrics, logs, traces, profiles and errors. This list has 131 observability tools. Of these, 71 are open source, 131 have a free plan and 91 can be self-hosted. Checked by hand on 30 September 2026.

  1. 1

    AgentOps

    Observability for AI agents: records agent sessions with LLM calls, tool use and costs so you can replay and debug runs; SDK and app are open source.

    Free plan Open source (MIT) Self-hosted LLM and AITraces
  2. 2

    Airbrake

    Long-running error and performance monitoring service that groups exceptions, links them to deploys and alerts by email or chat. Error and performance quotas are billed separately.

    Free plan ErrorsAPMNotifications
  3. 3

    Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

    Serverless, Prometheus-compatible metrics store on AWS: remote-write metrics from EKS or other clusters and query them with PromQL.

    Free plan Free: 40M samples ingested, 10 GB stored (AWS Free Tier) CloudMetricsKubernetes
  4. 4

    Apache SkyWalking

    APM for distributed systems from the Apache Software Foundation: agents and service mesh probes collect traces, metrics and logs and draw service topology maps.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted APMTracesMetricsLogs
  5. 5

    AppSignal

    APM for Ruby, Elixir, Node.js, Python, PHP, Go and front-end JavaScript that combines performance, errors, logs, host metrics, uptime checks and cron check-ins.

    Free plan Free: 30K requests, 1 GB logs, 5-day retention APMErrorsLogsUptime checks
  6. 6

    Arize AX

    Arize's hosted AI observability and evaluation platform for agents and ML models: tracing, online evals, monitors and dashboards.

    Free plan Free: 25k spans/mo, 1 GB ingest, 15-day retention LLM and AITraces
  7. 7

    Arize Phoenix

    Source-available LLM tracing and evaluation tool built on OpenTelemetry and OpenInference; run it locally, in a notebook or on your servers to inspect traces and score outputs.

    Free Self-hosted LLM and AITracesOpenTelemetry
  8. 8

    AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

    AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector and SDKs, preconfigured to send traces and metrics to CloudWatch, X-Ray, Amazon Managed Prometheus and partner backends.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted OpenTelemetryPipelinesCloud
  9. 9

    Axiom

    Hosted event store for logs, traces and other event data, queried with the APL language, with dashboards and monitors. Integrates with Vercel, Cloudflare and OpenTelemetry.

    Free plan Free: 500 GB/mo ingest, 25 GB storage, 30-day retention LogsTracesOpenTelemetryDashboards
  10. 10

    Backtrace

    Crash and error reporting from Sauce Labs for native apps, game engines, consoles and servers, including minidump and core dump processing.

    Free plan Free: 25K errors/month, 1 month retention, 10 GB Self-hosted Errors
  11. 11

    Better Stack Telemetry

    Better Stack's log, metric and trace store built on ClickHouse, queried with SQL or a live-tail view. Shares an account with Better Stack uptime and on-call.

    Free plan Free: 3 GB logs retained 3 days LogsMetricsTracesOpenTelemetry
  12. 12

    Bindplane

    Telemetry pipeline built on OpenTelemetry: manages fleets of collectors from one console and filters, samples and routes logs, metrics and traces to any backend. Cloud or self-hosted.

    Free plan Free: 10 collectors, 100 GB/day, 1 project Self-hosted PipelinesOpenTelemetryLogs
  13. 13

    Boomerang

    Open source JavaScript library, maintained by Akamai, that measures page load and user-perceived performance in real browsers and beacons the timings to a server you choose.

    Free Open source (BSD-3-Clause) Self-hosted Real user monitoring
  14. 14

    Braintrust

    Evaluation and observability platform for AI products: logs production traces, runs evals and scorers, and offers a prompt playground and datasets.

    Free plan Free: 1 GB processed data, 10k scores, 14-day retention Self-hosted LLM and AITraces
  15. 15

    Bugfender

    Remote logging for mobile and web apps: the SDK sends device logs to the cloud so you can read what happened on a user's device, with crash reports and user feedback.

    Free plan Free: 100K log lines/day, 24-hour retention LogsErrorsMobile app
  16. 16

    Bugsee

    In-app bug and crash reporting for mobile apps that attaches a video of the user's last actions, network traffic and logs to every report.

    Free plan Free: Lite: 5 devices/month, 3-day retention ErrorsMobile app
  17. 17

    Bugsink

    Sentry-SDK-compatible error tracker built to self-host as a single container on modest hardware. Groups errors into issues and sends chat or webhook alerts.

    Free plan Free: Hosted: 15K events/month; self-hosted free Self-hosted ErrorsNotifications
  18. 18

    BugSnag

    SmartBear's error and crash monitoring for mobile, web and backend apps, known for stability scores per release. Adds performance spans.

    Free plan Free: 7.5K events/month, 1 user, 7-day retention ErrorsAPMMobile app
  19. 19

    BugSplat

    Crash reporting for C++, .NET, games and desktop apps: collects minidumps and symbol files and shows the call stack at the moment of the crash.

    Free plan Free: 15,000 crashes/month, 3 users, 1-month retention Errors
  20. 20

    Chronograf

    InfluxData's web UI for InfluxDB 1.x: builds dashboards over InfluxQL queries and manages Kapacitor alert rules.

    Free Open source (AGPL-3.0) Self-hosted DashboardsMetrics
  21. 21

    ClickStack

    ClickHouse's open source observability stack built on HyperDX: logs, traces, metrics and session replays stored in ClickHouse and searched from one UI.

    Free plan Open source (MIT) Self-hosted LogsTracesMetricsOpenTelemetry
  22. 22

    Cloudflare Web Analytics

    Privacy-first, cookie-free site analytics from Cloudflare that also reports real-user Core Web Vitals per page; works on sites not proxied by Cloudflare too.

    Free Real user monitoring
  23. 23

    Confident AI

    Evaluation and observability platform from the makers of the open source DeepEval library: LLM tracing, regression tests in CI, and red teaming.

    Free plan Free: 2 seats, 1 project, 1 GB-month of trace spans Self-hosted LLM and AITraces
  24. 24

    Contentsquare

    Digital experience analytics platform with session replay, heatmaps, journey analysis and error and speed analysis; Hotjar is now part of it.

    Free plan Session replayReal user monitoring
  25. 25

    Coroot

    Open source observability that uses eBPF to build service maps and collect metrics, logs, traces and profiles without code changes, with root-cause hints.

    Free plan Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted APMMetricsTracesKubernetes
  26. 26

    Cortex

    Horizontally scalable, multi-tenant long-term storage for Prometheus metrics; a CNCF project.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted Metrics
  27. 27

    Cribl

    Telemetry pipeline (Cribl Stream, Edge, Search and Lake) that filters, reshapes and routes logs between collectors and destinations such as Splunk or S3 to cut volume.

    Free plan Free: Up to 1 TB/day Self-hosted LogsMetrics
  28. 28

    Datadog

    SaaS monitoring platform covering infrastructure, APM, logs, RUM, synthetics, security and incident management, collected mostly through one agent.

    Free plan Free: 5 hosts, 1-day metric retention MetricsAPMLogsInfrastructure
  29. 29

    DeadBro

    APM for Ruby on Rails apps installed as a gem: request traces, slow SQL and N+1 query detection, and error tracking, priced by requests.

    Free plan Free: 50k requests/mo, 1 app APMErrors
  30. 30

    Dozzle

    Small web UI that streams and searches live Docker container logs across hosts, with no log storage. Optional Dozzle Cloud adds grouped alerts and log analysis.

    Free plan Open source (MIT) Self-hosted LogsInfrastructure
  31. 31

    Edge Delta

    Telemetry pipelines that process logs, metrics and traces at the edge before they reach a backend, now sold alongside AI agents for root-cause investigation.

    Free plan PipelinesLogsMetricsTraces
  32. 32

    Elastic Observability

    Logs, metrics, APM traces and synthetics built on Elasticsearch and Kibana, run yourself or on Elastic Cloud.

    Free plan Open source (AGPL-3.0-only OR SSPL-1.0 OR Elastic-2.0) Self-hosted LogsMetricsAPMTraces
  33. 33

    Elastic Stack (ELK)

    Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and Beats: full-text indexing and search of logs with Kibana dashboards and alerting. Self-host the free distribution or buy Elastic Cloud.

    Free plan Open source (AGPL-3.0-only OR SSPL-1.0 OR Elastic-2.0) Self-hosted LogsDashboardsMetricsAPM
  34. 34

    Embrace

    Mobile and web app monitoring built on OpenTelemetry: crashes, ANRs, network calls and full user session timelines for iOS, Android, React Native and Unity.

    Free plan Free: 1M sessions/year, 5 users ErrorsReal user monitoringMobile appOpenTelemetry
  35. 35

    Errbit

    Self-hosted Rails app that receives errors from Airbrake-compatible clients, groups them and emails or notifies your team.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted ErrorsNotifications
  36. 36

    Exceptionless

    Open source .NET-first error, log and feature-usage reporting with a hosted service or free self-hosting. Groups events into stacks and notifies on new or regressed errors.

    Free plan Free: 3,000 events/month, 1 user, 3-day retention Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted ErrorsLogsNotifications
  37. 37

    Firebase Crashlytics

    Google's crash reporter for iOS, Android, Flutter and Unity apps. Groups crashes by root cause and highlights new or regressed issues; no cost on any Firebase plan.

    Free ErrorsMobile app
  38. 38

    Fluent Bit

    Lightweight C log and metrics processor from the Fluentd project, common as the node-level agent in Kubernetes. Ships to Loki, Elasticsearch, cloud logging and OTLP.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted LogsKubernetesOpenTelemetry
  39. 39

    Fluentd

    CNCF graduated log collector that reads, parses, buffers and forwards logs to hundreds of outputs through a plugin system. Written in Ruby and C.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted LogsKubernetes
  40. 40

    Fullstory

    Digital experience analytics built on session replay: records web and mobile sessions, flags frustration signals and errors, and lets you search and segment users by behaviour.

    Free plan Free: 30,000 sessions/mo, 12-month retention Session replayReal user monitoring
  41. 41

    Future AGI

    Open source platform to trace, evaluate, simulate and guard LLM and agent apps, including an AI gateway.

    Free plan Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted LLM and AITraces
  42. 42

    Galileo

    AI evaluation and observability platform with tracing, evaluation metrics and real-time guardrails for agents; hosted, VPC or on-prem.

    Free plan Self-hosted LLM and AITraces
  43. 43

    GlitchTip

    Open source error tracker that accepts events from Sentry SDKs, with simpler infrastructure than self-hosted Sentry. Also does basic uptime checks. Hosted or self-hosted.

    Free plan Free: 1,000 events/month Open source (MIT) Self-hosted ErrorsUptime checksNotifications
  44. 44

    Google Cloud Profiler

    Google Cloud statistical profiler for Go, Java, Node.js and Python services that samples CPU and heap in production and shows flame graphs in the console. Google lists no charge for it.

    Free ProfilingCloud
  45. 45

    gProfiler

    Open source system-wide profiler from Intel (built by Granulate) that merges several language profilers into one flame graph per host; a local backend and UI are published separately.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted Profiling
  46. 46

    Grafana

    Open source dashboards and alerting over Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, SQL databases and many other data sources.

    Free plan Open source (AGPL-3.0) Self-hosted DashboardsMetrics
  47. 47

    Grafana Alloy

    Grafana's OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus scraping and a pipeline configuration language; collects metrics, logs, traces and profiles. Replaces Grafana Agent.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted PipelinesOpenTelemetryMetricsLogs
  48. 48

    Grafana Cloud

    Grafana Labs' hosted stack: Grafana with managed Prometheus-compatible metrics, Loki logs, Tempo traces, profiles, synthetic checks and IRM.

    Free plan Free: 10k metric series, 50 GB logs, 14-day retention MetricsLogsTracesDashboards
  49. 49

    Grafana Faro

    Open source web SDK for frontend observability: captures page performance, Web Vitals, errors, logs and traces from browsers and sends them to Grafana Cloud or a self-run Alloy and Loki stack.

    Free plan Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted Real user monitoringErrorsOpenTelemetry
  50. 50

    Grafana Loki

    Log aggregation system that indexes only labels, not full log text, and stores chunks in object storage. Queried with LogQL from Grafana; hosted as part of Grafana Cloud.

    Free plan Free: Grafana Cloud: 50 GB logs/month, 14-day retention Open source (AGPL-3.0-only) Self-hosted LogsDashboardsKubernetes
  51. 51

    Grafana Mimir

    Horizontally scalable, multi-tenant long-term storage for Prometheus metrics from Grafana Labs, backed by object storage.

    Free plan Open source (AGPL-3.0) Self-hosted Metrics
  52. 52

    Grafana Pyroscope

    Continuous profiling database that collects CPU, memory and other profiles from running applications so you can find hot code paths over time.

    Free plan Open source (AGPL-3.0) Self-hosted APM
  53. 53

    Grafana Tempo

    Distributed tracing backend that stores traces cheaply in object storage and accepts OpenTelemetry, Jaeger and Zipkin data.

    Free plan Open source (AGPL-3.0) Self-hosted TracesOpenTelemetry
  54. 54

    Graphite

    Time-series metrics storage and graphing: Carbon receives metrics, Whisper stores them, and Graphite-web renders graphs and serves a query API.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted MetricsDashboards
  55. 55

    Graylog

    Centralised log collection with parsing pipelines, stream routing, search and alert conditions. Graylog Open is free to self-host; paid editions add security analytics and archiving.

    Free plan Self-hosted LogsDashboardsAlert routing
  56. 56

    Grepr

    Pipeline that sits in front of Datadog, Splunk or New Relic, summarises repetitive logs and traces before they are indexed, and keeps raw data in S3 for backfill during incidents.

    Free plan Free: Up to 4 TB/mo logs, 2 pipelines PipelinesLogsTraces
  57. 57

    groundcover

    Kubernetes observability that uses an eBPF sensor and runs in your own cloud account, covering logs, traces, metrics and APM without code changes.

    Free plan Self-hosted KubernetesAPMLogsTraces
  58. 58

    Helicone

    Open source LLM proxy and logging: point your provider base URL at it to record every request with cost, latency and user, plus caching and rate limits.

    Free plan Free: 10,000 requests, 1 GB storage, 1 seat Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted maintenance LLM and AI
  59. 59

    Honeybadger

    Error tracking for Ruby, Elixir, PHP, Python and JavaScript apps, bundled with uptime checks, cron check-ins and log insights in one account.

    Free plan Free: Developer: 5,000 errors/month ErrorsUptime checksHeartbeatsLogs
  60. 60

    Honeycomb

    Observability built for high-cardinality event data: query traces and events by any field to work out why production behaves the way it does.

    Free plan Free: 20M events/mo TracesOpenTelemetryAPM
  61. 61

    Honeycomb Refinery

    Open source tail-based sampling proxy for traces: buffers whole traces and keeps errors, slow requests and a sample of the rest before forwarding to Honeycomb.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted PipelinesTraces
  62. 62

    HoneyHive

    Observability and evaluation platform for AI agents: OpenTelemetry-based tracing, automated and human evals, prompt versioning and production monitoring.

    Free plan Free: 10,000 events/mo, 5 users, 30-day retention Self-hosted LLM and AITracesOpenTelemetry
  63. 63

    InfluxDB

    Time-series database for metrics and events; InfluxDB 3 Core is open source, with Enterprise and managed cloud editions.

    Free plan Open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0) Self-hosted Metrics
  64. 64

    Inspector

    Code-level monitoring for PHP apps (Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, Drupal) that shows transactions, database queries and errors as they happen.

    Free plan Free: 30K transactions/mo, 3 team members APMErrors
  65. 65

    Jaeger

    CNCF distributed tracing platform for collecting, storing and exploring request traces across microservices; version 2 is built on the OpenTelemetry Collector.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted TracesOpenTelemetry
  66. 66

    Laminar

    Open source observability for AI agents: OpenTelemetry-based tracing, evaluations and analysis of agent runs, self-hostable or cloud.

    Free plan Free: 1 GB data, 7-day retention, 1 seat Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted LLM and AITracesOpenTelemetry
  67. 67

    Langfuse

    Open source LLM engineering platform: traces LLM and agent calls, manages prompts, runs evaluations and tracks cost and latency. Self-host or use the cloud; acquired by ClickHouse in 2026.

    Free plan Free: 50k units/mo, 30 days data access, 2 users Open source (MIT) Self-hosted LLM and AITracesOpenTelemetry
  68. 68

    LangSmith

    LangChain's platform for tracing, evaluating and monitoring LLM apps and agents, usable with or without LangChain; also hosts agent deployments.

    Free plan Free: 5k base traces/mo, 1 seat Self-hosted LLM and AITraces
  69. 69

    LangWatch

    Open source LLMOps platform: traces LLM and agent runs, runs evaluations and agent simulations, and helps optimize prompts; cloud or self-managed.

    Free plan Free: 50k events/mo, 14-day data access, 2 users Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted LLM and AITracesOpenTelemetry
  70. 70

    Last9

    Telemetry data platform for high-cardinality metrics, logs and traces, compatible with Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.

    Free plan MetricsLogsTracesOpenTelemetry
  71. 71

    Latitude

    Open source platform to trace, monitor and evaluate AI agents in production, with prompt management; self-host or use the hosted plans.

    Free plan Free: 20K credits/mo, 30-day retention Open source (MIT) Self-hosted LLM and AITraces
  72. 72

    lnav

    Terminal log file navigator that merges several log files into one timeline, highlights errors, and lets you query log lines with SQL. Runs locally, no server.

    Free Open source (BSD-2-Clause) Self-hosted Logs
  73. 73

    Logflare

    Log ingestion and search backed by Google BigQuery, popular with Cloudflare Workers, Vercel and Elixir apps. Now part of Supabase and open source.

    Free plan Free: 12.96M events/month, 3-day retention Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted LogsDashboards
  74. 74

    Loggly

    SolarWinds hosted log management: ship logs over syslog or HTTP, search and filter them, and build charts and email alerts on the paid plans.

    Free plan Free: Lite: 200 MB/day, 7-day retention LogsDashboards
  75. 75

    Lumigo

    Troubleshooting for serverless and container apps with automatic distributed tracing that captures request and response payloads across AWS Lambda and other services.

    Free plan Free: 150k traces, 5 GB logs/mo TracesAPMLogs
  76. 76

    ManageEngine Log360 Cloud

    ManageEngine's cloud SIEM that collects logs from servers, network devices and cloud services for search, audit reports and compliance reporting. Has a Free edition.

    Free plan LogsDashboards
  77. 77

    Memfault

    Device reliability platform for embedded and IoT fleets: remote crash and coredump collection, device metrics and over-the-air update management.

    Free plan Free: Nordic devs: up to 10 development devices ErrorsMetricsInfrastructure
  78. 78

    Microsoft Clarity

    Free session recordings and heatmaps from Microsoft, with rage-click and dead-click detection and JavaScript error markers on recordings. No traffic caps.

    Free Session replayReal user monitoring
  79. 79

    Middleware

    Full-stack observability SaaS covering infrastructure, APM, logs, RUM and synthetic checks, priced by data volume.

    Free plan Free: 100 GB data, 14-day retention APMLogsInfrastructureReal user monitoring
  80. 80

    New Relic

    SaaS observability platform for APM, infrastructure, logs, browser and mobile monitoring and errors, priced by data ingest and user type.

    Free plan Free: 100 GB ingest/mo, 1 full platform user APMInfrastructureLogsReal user monitoring
  81. 81

    Nightingale

    Open source alerting and dashboard platform that sits on Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Elasticsearch and other sources, with alert rules and notification routing.

    Free plan Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted MetricsDashboardsAlert routing
  82. 82

    NXLog

    Log collection agent and platform strong on Windows event logs: collects, converts and forwards logs to SIEM and observability tools. A free Community Edition is also available.

    Free plan Self-hosted PipelinesLogs
  83. 83

    Odigos

    Uses eBPF to add OpenTelemetry tracing to applications on Kubernetes without code changes and sends the data to any backend.

    Free plan Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted TracesOpenTelemetryKubernetes
  84. 84

    OpenLIT

    Open source, OpenTelemetry-native AI observability: SDK auto-instruments LLMs, vector databases and GPUs, with a self-hosted UI for traces, costs, evals and prompts.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted LLM and AITracesOpenTelemetry
  85. 85

    OpenLLMetry

    Open source OpenTelemetry instrumentations for LLM providers, vector databases and agent frameworks, by Traceloop; sends traces to any OTLP backend or the Traceloop platform.

    Free plan Free: Traceloop: 50K spans/mo, 5 seats, 24h retention Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted LLM and AITracesOpenTelemetry
  86. 86

    OpenObserve

    Single-binary store for logs, metrics and traces on object storage, with SQL search, dashboards and alerts. Self-host the open source build or use the pay-as-you-go cloud.

    Free plan Open source (AGPL-3.0-only) Self-hosted LogsMetricsTracesOpenTelemetry
  87. 87

    OpenReplay

    Open source session replay with developer tools attached: console logs, network requests and performance data alongside each recording, plus co-browsing. Self-host free or use a managed instance.

    Free plan Open source (AGPL-3.0) Self-hosted Session replayReal user monitoringErrors
  88. 88

    OpenSearch

    Apache-licensed fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana run under the Linux Foundation. Indexes and searches logs, with OpenSearch Dashboards, alerting and trace analytics plugins.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted LogsDashboardsTraces
  89. 89

    OpenTelemetry

    CNCF project defining vendor-neutral APIs, SDKs, semantic conventions and the OTLP protocol for traces, metrics, logs and profiles, with auto-instrumentation for major languages.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted OpenTelemetryTracesMetricsLogs
  90. 90

    OpenTelemetry Collector

    Vendor-neutral agent and gateway that receives, processes and exports traces, metrics and logs to one or more backends.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted OpenTelemetryTracesMetricsLogs
  91. 91

    OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI)

    Zero-code eBPF instrumentation that produces traces and RED metrics for HTTP, gRPC, database and messaging calls from Linux processes. Started as Grafana Beyla and was donated to OpenTelemetry.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted OpenTelemetryTracesMetricsKubernetes
  92. 92

    OpenTelemetry eBPF Profiler

    Whole-system eBPF profiling agent donated to OpenTelemetry by Elastic. Profiles native, JVM, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.js and Go code without instrumentation and exports via OTLP.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted ProfilingOpenTelemetry
  93. 93

    Opik

    Open source LLM and agent observability from Comet: tracing, test suites, evaluations and a prompt optimizer; self-host the same code as the cloud.

    Free plan Free: 25k spans/mo, 10 members, 60-day retention Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted LLM and AITraces
  94. 94

    Parca

    Open source continuous profiler: an eBPF agent samples CPU stacks from every process on a host with no code changes, and the server stores profiles for querying as flame graphs over time.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted ProfilingKubernetes
  95. 95

    Parseable

    Log and telemetry store written in Rust that keeps data as Parquet on object storage and queries it with SQL. Open source server, plus a hosted cloud and enterprise edition.

    Free plan Open source (AGPL-3.0-only) Self-hosted LogsOpenTelemetryDashboards
  96. 96

    Perforator

    Continuous profiler open sourced by Yandex for large fleets: deploys to Kubernetes, collects low-overhead eBPF profiles cluster-wide, and can feed profile-guided optimization builds.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted ProfilingKubernetes
  97. 97

    Perses

    CNCF open source dashboard tool with an open dashboard specification: Prometheus, Tempo and Loki panels, dashboards as code, and Kubernetes-native deployment.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted DashboardsMetrics
  98. 98

    Pinpoint

    APM for large Java and PHP systems that traces transactions across services and draws a server map of their calls.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted APMTraces
  99. 99

    Pixie

    Kubernetes observability that uses eBPF to capture service traffic, metrics and CPU profiles automatically; a CNCF sandbox project.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted KubernetesAPMMetrics
  100. 100

    Portkey

    AI gateway with an observability layer: one API for many model providers with routing, fallbacks and caching, and logs of each request with cost and latency. The gateway is open source.

    Free plan Free: 10k logs/mo, 3-day log retention Self-hosted LLM and AI
  101. 101

    PostHog

    Open source product suite with session replay, product analytics, feature flags, error tracking and LLM analytics sharing one event store. Hosted with a monthly free allowance, or self-hosted.

    Free plan Free: 5K session recordings and 1M events per month Open source (MIT) Self-hosted Session replayReal user monitoringErrors
  102. 102

    Prometheus

    CNCF metrics system that scrapes time series from exporters and apps, stores them locally, and evaluates PromQL alert rules that it sends to Alertmanager.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted MetricsKubernetes
  103. 103

    Quickwit

    Rust search engine for logs and traces that indexes into object storage and searches there directly, with Elasticsearch-compatible and Jaeger APIs. The team joined Datadog in January 2025.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted LogsTracesOpenTelemetry
  104. 104

    Request Metrics

    Real user monitoring focused on Core Web Vitals and page speed for websites, with lab tests, SEO tracking and email alerts when performance slips.

    Free plan Free: 1 user, Core Web Vitals monitoring, email alerts Real user monitoring
  105. 105

    Respan

    LLM gateway, logging and evaluation platform (formerly Keywords AI): routes calls to many models through one API and records traces, cost and scores.

    Free plan Free: 100k logs, 1k scores Self-hosted LLM and AI
  106. 106

    Rollbar

    Error monitoring that groups exceptions into items, ties them to deploys and versions, and alerts through Slack, PagerDuty and others. Includes session replay.

    Free plan Free: 5K occurrences + 1K sessions/month ErrorsReal user monitoringNotifications
  107. 107

    rrweb

    Open source library that records DOM changes in the browser and replays them as a session video; the recording engine inside many session replay products.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted Session replay
  108. 108

    rsyslog

    Default syslog daemon on many Linux distributions; also a high-throughput log pipeline that parses, filters and forwards logs to Elasticsearch, Kafka, files or remote syslog.

    Free Open source Self-hosted PipelinesLogs
  109. 109

    Scout APM

    APM for Ruby, Python, PHP and Elixir apps that points to slow endpoints, N+1 queries and memory bloat, with error and log monitoring included.

    Free plan Free: 300K transactions, 5k errors, 1 GB logs APMErrorsLogs
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    Sematext

    Hosted infrastructure monitoring, log management, synthetic checks and real user monitoring, with a plan chosen per app.

    Free plan LogsInfrastructureSynthetic checksReal user monitoring
  111. 111

    Sentry

    Captures exceptions and crashes from web, mobile and backend SDKs, groups them into issues with stack traces and releases, and alerts owners. Adds tracing, replays and logs.

    Free plan Free: Developer: 5K errors/month, 1 user Self-hosted ErrorsAPMTracesReal user monitoring
  112. 112

    Seq

    Self-hosted server for structured logs and traces, popular in .NET shops via Serilog. Search with a SQL-like syntax, build dashboards and send alerts.

    Free plan Free: Individual: 1 user, 50 GB storage Self-hosted LogsTracesDashboardsOpenTelemetry
  113. 113

    SigNoz

    Open source, OpenTelemetry-native APM with traces, metrics and logs stored in ClickHouse, self-hosted or as SigNoz Cloud.

    Free plan Open source (MIT) Self-hosted APMTracesLogsMetrics
  114. 114

    Site24x7

    Zoho's monitoring suite for websites, servers, networks, applications and cloud, with synthetic transactions and RUM; plain uptime checks have a free plan.

    Free plan Free: Uptime checks for 50 resources, email alerts Uptime checksSynthetic checksInfrastructureAPM
  115. 115

    Skylight

    Performance profiler for Ruby on Rails apps that aggregates request traces into per-endpoint breakdowns; free for open source apps.

    Free plan Free: 100,000 traces/mo APM
  116. 116

    Smartlook

    Session recording, heatmaps and funnels for web and mobile apps, owned by Cisco. Being wound down, with its features moving into Splunk Observability Cloud.

    Free plan end-of-sale Session replayReal user monitoring
  117. 117

    Smashing

    Ruby (Sinatra) framework for team wallboard dashboards built from widgets that pull data from scripts and APIs; community fork of Shopify's Dashing.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted maintenance Dashboards
  118. 118

    Splunk

    Log indexing and search platform (Splunk Enterprise, self-hosted, or Splunk Cloud) with the SPL query language, dashboards and alerting. Widely used for security and IT operations.

    Free plan Free: Splunk Free: 500 MB/day, one instance, no alerting Self-hosted LogsDashboardsMetrics
  119. 119

    Superlog

    Open source OpenTelemetry observability for traces, logs and metrics, with AI agents that investigate incidents; self-hostable or hosted.

    Free plan Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted OpenTelemetryTracesLogsMetrics
  120. 120

    syslog-ng

    Long-running open source log collector and forwarder: receives syslog, files and journald, parses and filters messages, and sends them to files, databases, Kafka or SIEMs. Commercial editions exist.

    Free plan Open source Self-hosted PipelinesLogs
  121. 121

    Telegraf

    InfluxData's plugin-based agent that collects metrics and events from systems, services and APIs and writes them to InfluxDB, Prometheus and many other outputs.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted MetricsInfrastructure
  122. 122

    telemetry.dev

    Observability for AI and LLM apps on OpenTelemetry: traces model and tool calls with tokens, cost, latency and errors; send OTLP over HTTP or use the TypeScript SDKs.

    Free plan Free: 30k ingestion units/mo, 14-day retention LLM and AITracesOpenTelemetry
  123. 123

    Tenzir

    Open source pipeline engine for security and log data: nodes collect, parse, normalise and route events with a pipeline language, managed from a hosted or self-run platform.

    Free plan Free: Community edition: 1 TB/day ingress Open source (BSD-3-Clause) Self-hosted PipelinesLogs
  124. 124

    Thanos

    Adds a global query view, high availability and long-term object-storage retention to existing Prometheus servers; a CNCF project.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted Metrics
  125. 125

    Uptrace

    OpenTelemetry APM that stores traces, metrics and logs in ClickHouse, available self-hosted or as a cloud service priced per GB.

    Free plan Free: 50 GB/mo Open source (AGPL-3.0) Self-hosted APMTracesMetricsLogs
  126. 126

    Vector

    Rust observability pipeline from Datadog that collects, transforms and routes logs and metrics between sources and sinks, run as agent or aggregator.

    Free Open source (MPL-2.0) Self-hosted LogsMetrics
  127. 127

    VictoriaLogs

    Log database from the VictoriaMetrics team, run as a single binary or cluster, queried with LogsQL and viewable in Grafana. Accepts Loki, Elasticsearch and OTLP ingestion.

    Free plan Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted LogsKubernetes
  128. 128

    VictoriaMetrics

    Prometheus-compatible time-series database and monitoring stack in single-node and cluster versions, with enterprise and managed cloud editions.

    Free plan Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted Metrics
  129. 129

    W&B Weave

    Weights & Biases toolkit for tracing LLM calls, running evaluations with custom scorers and comparing model and prompt versions.

    Free plan Self-hosted LLM and AITraces
  130. 130

    Zipkin

    Distributed tracing system that collects timing data from instrumented services and shows where latency builds up across them.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted Traces
  131. 131

    zymtrace

    Self-hosted, cluster-wide profiler for AI training and inference fleets: continuous whole-system CPU profiling plus GPU and accelerator profiling for CUDA, ROCm and other chips.

    Free plan Free: CPU profiling on up to 5 machines Self-hosted ProfilingKubernetes

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Tool Pricing Free plan Open source Self-hosted
AgentOps Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Airbrake Free plan Yes No No
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Free plan 40M samples ingested, 10 GB stored (AWS Free Tier) No No
Apache SkyWalking Free Yes Yes Yes
AppSignal Free plan 30K requests, 1 GB logs, 5-day retention No No
Arize AX Free plan 25k spans/mo, 1 GB ingest, 15-day retention No No
Arize Phoenix Free Yes No Yes
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Free Yes Yes Yes
Axiom Free plan 500 GB/mo ingest, 25 GB storage, 30-day retention No No
Backtrace Free plan 25K errors/month, 1 month retention, 10 GB No Yes
Better Stack Telemetry Free plan 3 GB logs retained 3 days No No
Bindplane Free plan 10 collectors, 100 GB/day, 1 project No Yes
Boomerang Free Yes Yes Yes
Braintrust Free plan 1 GB processed data, 10k scores, 14-day retention No Yes
Bugfender Free plan 100K log lines/day, 24-hour retention No No
Bugsee Free plan Lite: 5 devices/month, 3-day retention No No
Bugsink Free plan Hosted: 15K events/month; self-hosted free No Yes
BugSnag Free plan 7.5K events/month, 1 user, 7-day retention No No
BugSplat Free plan 15,000 crashes/month, 3 users, 1-month retention No No
Chronograf Free Yes Yes Yes
ClickStack Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Cloudflare Web Analytics Free Yes No No
Confident AI Free plan 2 seats, 1 project, 1 GB-month of trace spans No Yes
Contentsquare Free plan Yes No No
Coroot Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Cortex Free Yes Yes Yes
Cribl Free plan Up to 1 TB/day No Yes
Datadog Free plan 5 hosts, 1-day metric retention No No
DeadBro Free plan 50k requests/mo, 1 app No No
Dozzle Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Edge Delta Free plan Yes No No
Elastic Observability Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Elastic Stack (ELK) Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Embrace Free plan 1M sessions/year, 5 users No No
Errbit Free Yes Yes Yes
Exceptionless Free plan 3,000 events/month, 1 user, 3-day retention Yes Yes
Firebase Crashlytics Free Yes No No
Fluent Bit Free Yes Yes Yes
Fluentd Free Yes Yes Yes
Fullstory Free plan 30,000 sessions/mo, 12-month retention No No
Future AGI Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Galileo Free plan Yes No Yes
GlitchTip Free plan 1,000 events/month Yes Yes
Google Cloud Profiler Free Yes No No
gProfiler Free Yes Yes Yes
Grafana Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Grafana Alloy Free Yes Yes Yes
Grafana Cloud Free plan 10k metric series, 50 GB logs, 14-day retention No No
Grafana Faro Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Grafana Loki Free plan Grafana Cloud: 50 GB logs/month, 14-day retention Yes Yes
Grafana Mimir Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Grafana Pyroscope Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Grafana Tempo Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Graphite Free Yes Yes Yes
Graylog Free plan Yes No Yes
Grepr Free plan Up to 4 TB/mo logs, 2 pipelines No No
groundcover Free plan Yes No Yes
Helicone Free plan 10,000 requests, 1 GB storage, 1 seat Yes Yes
Honeybadger Free plan Developer: 5,000 errors/month No No
Honeycomb Free plan 20M events/mo No No
Honeycomb Refinery Free Yes Yes Yes
HoneyHive Free plan 10,000 events/mo, 5 users, 30-day retention No Yes
InfluxDB Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Inspector Free plan 30K transactions/mo, 3 team members No No
Jaeger Free Yes Yes Yes
Laminar Free plan 1 GB data, 7-day retention, 1 seat Yes Yes
Langfuse Free plan 50k units/mo, 30 days data access, 2 users Yes Yes
LangSmith Free plan 5k base traces/mo, 1 seat No Yes
LangWatch Free plan 50k events/mo, 14-day data access, 2 users Yes Yes
Last9 Free plan Yes No No
Latitude Free plan 20K credits/mo, 30-day retention Yes Yes
lnav Free Yes Yes Yes
Logflare Free plan 12.96M events/month, 3-day retention Yes Yes
Loggly Free plan Lite: 200 MB/day, 7-day retention No No
Lumigo Free plan 150k traces, 5 GB logs/mo No No
ManageEngine Log360 Cloud Free plan Yes No No
Memfault Free plan Nordic devs: up to 10 development devices No No
Microsoft Clarity Free Yes No No
Middleware Free plan 100 GB data, 14-day retention No No
New Relic Free plan 100 GB ingest/mo, 1 full platform user No No
Nightingale Free plan Yes Yes Yes
NXLog Free plan Yes No Yes
Odigos Free plan Yes Yes Yes
OpenLIT Free Yes Yes Yes
OpenLLMetry Free plan Traceloop: 50K spans/mo, 5 seats, 24h retention Yes Yes
OpenObserve Free plan Yes Yes Yes
OpenReplay Free plan Yes Yes Yes
OpenSearch Free Yes Yes Yes
OpenTelemetry Free Yes Yes Yes
OpenTelemetry Collector Free Yes Yes Yes
OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) Free Yes Yes Yes
OpenTelemetry eBPF Profiler Free Yes Yes Yes
Opik Free plan 25k spans/mo, 10 members, 60-day retention Yes Yes
Parca Free Yes Yes Yes
Parseable Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Perforator Free Yes Yes Yes
Perses Free Yes Yes Yes
Pinpoint Free Yes Yes Yes
Pixie Free Yes Yes Yes
Portkey Free plan 10k logs/mo, 3-day log retention No Yes
PostHog Free plan 5K session recordings and 1M events per month Yes Yes
Prometheus Free Yes Yes Yes
Quickwit Free Yes Yes Yes
Request Metrics Free plan 1 user, Core Web Vitals monitoring, email alerts No No
Respan Free plan 100k logs, 1k scores No Yes
Rollbar Free plan 5K occurrences + 1K sessions/month No No
rrweb Free Yes Yes Yes
rsyslog Free Yes Yes Yes
Scout APM Free plan 300K transactions, 5k errors, 1 GB logs No No
Sematext Free plan Yes No No
Sentry Free plan Developer: 5K errors/month, 1 user No Yes
Seq Free plan Individual: 1 user, 50 GB storage No Yes
SigNoz Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Site24x7 Free plan Uptime checks for 50 resources, email alerts No No
Skylight Free plan 100,000 traces/mo No No
Smartlook Free plan Yes No No
Smashing Free Yes Yes Yes
Splunk Free plan Splunk Free: 500 MB/day, one instance, no alerting No Yes
Superlog Free plan Yes Yes Yes
syslog-ng Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Telegraf Free Yes Yes Yes
telemetry.dev Free plan 30k ingestion units/mo, 14-day retention No No
Tenzir Free plan Community edition: 1 TB/day ingress Yes Yes
Thanos Free Yes Yes Yes
Uptrace Free plan 50 GB/mo Yes Yes
Vector Free Yes Yes Yes
VictoriaLogs Free plan Yes Yes Yes
VictoriaMetrics Free plan Yes Yes Yes
W&B Weave Free plan Yes No Yes
Zipkin Free Yes Yes Yes
zymtrace Free plan CPU profiling on up to 5 machines No Yes

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