Observability platforms
Full-stack platforms that take metrics, logs and traces in one place, usually with dashboards, alerting and APM on top.
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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.
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Hosted observability for metrics, traces and logs at large scale, with controls to shape and cut telemetry volume. Now owned by Palo Alto Networks.
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ClickHouse's open source observability stack built on HyperDX: logs, traces, metrics and session replays stored in ClickHouse and searched from one UI.
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Observability SaaS for logs, metrics, traces and security data that processes data in-stream and keeps it in your own object storage.
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Open source observability that uses eBPF to build service maps and collect metrics, logs, traces and profiles without code changes, with root-cause hints.
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OpenTelemetry-native observability SaaS for traces, logs and metrics, with PromQL queries, synthetic API checks and configuration as code.
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SaaS monitoring platform covering infrastructure, APM, logs, RUM, synthetics, security and incident management, collected mostly through one agent.
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Enterprise observability platform that instruments hosts and apps automatically through its OneAgent, maps dependencies and points to likely root causes; also offered as self-managed Dynatrace Managed.
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Logs, metrics, APM traces and synthetics built on Elasticsearch and Kibana, run yourself or on Elastic Cloud.
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Grafana Labs' hosted stack: Grafana with managed Prometheus-compatible metrics, Loki logs, Tempo traces, profiles, synthetic checks and IRM.
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Kubernetes observability that uses an eBPF sensor and runs in your own cloud account, covering logs, traces, metrics and APM without code changes.
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Observability built for high-cardinality event data: query traces and events by any field to work out why production behaves the way it does.
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Telemetry data platform for high-cardinality metrics, logs and traces, compatible with Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
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Full-stack observability SaaS covering infrastructure, APM, logs, RUM and synthetic checks, priced by data volume.
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SaaS observability platform for APM, infrastructure, logs, browser and mobile monitoring and errors, priced by data ingest and user type.
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Observability platform, now part of Snowflake, that stores logs, metrics and traces on Snowflake and links them into a graph of related entities.
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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.
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Hosted infrastructure monitoring, log management, synthetic checks and real user monitoring, with a plan chosen per app.
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Open source, OpenTelemetry-native APM with traces, metrics and logs stored in ClickHouse, self-hosted or as SigNoz Cloud.
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Splunk's SaaS for infrastructure monitoring, APM, RUM and synthetics, built on OpenTelemetry with streaming metrics.
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Open source OpenTelemetry observability for traces, logs and metrics, with AI agents that investigate incidents; self-hostable or hosted.
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OpenTelemetry APM that stores traces, metrics and logs in ClickHouse, available self-hosted or as a cloud service priced per GB.
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