DatadogMonitoring & ObservabilityDatadog collects infrastructure metrics, logs, traces, and other signals so teams can investigate services and configure alerts.
APIpaid
Technical shortlist
Kubernetes monitoring tools for production clusters
Kubernetes monitoring must follow workloads that reschedule, scale and disappear. Start with cluster state, node health, application telemetry and the metadata needed to connect an incident to a namespace, workload, pod and deployment change.
For SREs, platform engineers and DevOps teams operating Kubernetes in production.
Lead with the workload
The decision to make
Instrument one representative cluster before selecting a platform. Measure collection overhead, cardinality, retention, query latency and alert quality while workloads scale and roll out.
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Available profiles
All tools →9 matching tools
| Tool | Deployment | Source model | API | Pricing model | Primary source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datadog | Web | Other license | Available | paid | Official source ↗ |
| Dynatrace | Self-hosted | Other license | Available | paid | Official source ↗ |
| Grafana | Self-hosted | Open source | Available | freemium | Official source ↗ |
| Netdata | Self-hosted | Open source | Not specified | freemium | Official source ↗ |
| New Relic | See profile | Other license | Not specified | freemium | Official source ↗ |
| OpenObserve | Self-hosted | Open source | Available | open source | Official source ↗ |
| Prometheus | Self-hosted | Open source | Available | open source | Official source ↗ |
| Sentry | Self-hosted | Open source | Available | freemium | Official source ↗ |
| SigNoz | Self-hosted | Open source | Not specified | freemium | Official source ↗ |
DatadogMonitoring & Observability
DynatraceMonitoring & ObservabilityDynatrace brings application and infrastructure telemetry into an observability platform, with capabilities governed by the selected subscription.
Self-hostedAPIpaid
GrafanaMonitoring & ObservabilityGrafana is an open source visualization and dashboarding platform that queries metrics, logs, and traces from Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and dozens of other backends, with Grafana Cloud offering a hosted option.
Open sourceSelf-hostedAPIfreemium
NetdataMonitoring & ObservabilityNetdata collects system and service metrics and evaluates alerts near the monitored nodes.
Open sourceSelf-hostedfreemium
New RelicMonitoring & ObservabilityNew Relic brings application, infrastructure and log signals into observability workflows.
freemium
OpenObserve natively unifies logs, metrics, distributed traces, and real-user monitoring in a single self-hostable platform. Written in Rust, it stores data at a fraction of the cost of Elasticsearch.
Open sourceSelf-hostedAPIopen source
PrometheusMonitoring & ObservabilityPrometheus scrapes time-series metrics from instrumented targets, stores them locally, and evaluates alerting rules with PromQL, forwarding alerts to Alertmanager. It has no built-in dashboarding or long-term storage layer of its own.
Open sourceSelf-hostedAPIopen source
SentryMonitoring & ObservabilitySentry provides error tracking, performance monitoring and session replay for web and mobile apps, open source and self-hostable or available as a hosted freemium service.
Open sourceSelf-hostedAPIfreemium
SigNozMonitoring & ObservabilitySigNoz unifies logs, metrics and traces natively on OpenTelemetry, available self-hosted for free or as SigNoz Cloud starting at $49/month.
Open sourceSelf-hostedfreemium