Monitoring

Cloud provider monitoring

The monitoring built into AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and other providers, and managed Prometheus services.

Lists: Cloud monitoring tools in 2026 Best cloud monitoring tools in 2026 Cloud monitoring tools with a free plan in 2026

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  • Alibaba Cloud's monitoring service for its cloud resources and hybrid environments, with metrics, event alerts and support for Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry data.

    Free plan CloudMetrics
  • AWS's native monitoring service: collects metrics and logs from AWS services and your apps, with alarms, dashboards, synthetic canaries and application signals.

    Free plan Free: 10 custom metrics, 10 alarms, 5 GB logs per month CloudMetricsLogsDashboards
  • 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
  • Microsoft Azure's monitoring service for metrics, logs and traces from Azure resources and apps, including Application Insights, Log Analytics, alerts and managed Prometheus.

    Free plan CloudMetricsLogsAPM
  • Built-in metrics and alert policies for DigitalOcean Droplets and other resources, collected by a small agent, at no extra charge.

    Free CloudMetricsInfrastructure
  • Google Cloud's managed Prometheus backend on Monarch: collect with managed or self-deployed collectors, query with PromQL, billed per sample ingested.

    Paid CloudMetricsKubernetes
  • Google Cloud's suite (formerly Stackdriver) of Cloud Monitoring, Logging and Trace for metrics, logs, uptime checks and alerting on Google Cloud and other environments.

    Free plan Free: 150 MiB metrics per billing account, 50 GiB logs/project CloudMetricsLogsTraces
  • Managed monitoring service on IBM Cloud for metrics from infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, cloud services and applications, with dashboards and alerts.

    Paid CloudMetricsDashboards
  • Akamai Cloud (Linode) system graphing service: an open source agent reports CPU, memory, disk and network per process. Longview Pro adds 1-minute data and full history.

    Free plan Free: Up to 10 clients, 5-min data, 12h history CloudInfrastructureMetrics
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's metrics and alarms service for OCI resources and custom application metrics, queried with its Monitoring Query Language.

    Free plan CloudMetrics
  • Scaleway's observability service built on Grafana, Mimir, Loki and Tempo, collecting metrics and logs from Scaleway products by default and accepting external data.

    Free plan CloudMetricsLogsDashboards