List of Observability Tools in 2024

There are many observability tools available, catering to different needs and budgets. Here’s a list categorized by features:

Open-Source:

  • Prometheus: Metrics-focused, widely adopted, integrates with Grafana.
  • Grafana: Open-source visualization platform, integrates with various data sources.
  • Zipkin: Distributed tracing system, good for microservices.
  • Jaeger: Open-source tracing system, CNCF project, integrates with Kubernetes.
  • OpenTelemetry: Open-source framework for collecting and exporting data, vendor-neutral.

Commercial:

  • Datadog: All-in-one platform for metrics, logs, traces, APM, security.
  • New Relic: Comprehensive platform for APM, logs, infrastructure monitoring.
  • Dynatrace: AI-powered platform for full-stack monitoring and anomaly detection.
  • Sumo Logic: Cloud-native platform for log management, analytics, and observability.
  • AppDynamics: Application performance monitoring (APM) tool for complex applications.
  • Splunk: Enterprise platform for log management, security, and IT operations.
  • Honeycomb: Distributed tracing and APM tool, focused on developer experience.
  • Lightstep: Distributed tracing and APM tool, known for its ease of use.

Cloud-native:

  • Amazon CloudWatch: AWS monitoring service for metrics, logs, events, and insights.
  • Azure Monitor: Azure monitoring service for metrics, logs, and diagnostics.
  • Google Cloud Monitoring: GCP monitoring service for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.

Free/Freemium:

  • Netdata: Open-source, real-time monitoring for servers, systems, and applications.
  • PRTG Network Monitor: Free tier for up to 100 sensors, good for network monitoring.
  • Kibana: Open-source log visualization tool, part of the Elastic Stack.

Prometheus:

An open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit with a focus on reliability and simplicity.

Grafana:

An open-source platform for monitoring and observability, known for its powerful and elegant data visualizations.

Elasticsearch:

A search and analytics engine, often used for log analysis and part of the ELK Stack.

Logstash:

A data processing pipeline that ingests data from various sources, transforms it, and sends it to a “stash” like Elasticsearch.

Kibana:

A data visualization dashboard for Elasticsearch, also part of the ELK Stack.

Splunk:

A software platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data.

Datadog:

A monitoring service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services.

New Relic:

Provides full-stack observability, including application performance monitoring.

Dynatrace:

An AI-powered, full-stack monitoring platform that offers advanced observability capabilities.

AppDynamics:

A Cisco product offering application performance management and IT operations analytics.

Zabbix:

An open-source monitoring tool for networks and applications.

Jaeger:

An open-source, end-to-end distributed tracing system for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices-based distributed systems.

Fluentd:

An open-source data collector for unified logging layers, which allows you to unify data collection and consumption.

Sentry:

An open-source error tracking tool that helps monitor and fix crashes in real-time.

Honeycomb:

A tool focused on debugging and understanding production systems, offering insights into performance.

Sumo Logic:

A cloud-native, machine data analytics platform providing real-time intelligence for IT operations.

Azure Monitor:

Provides full-stack monitoring, advanced analytics, and application performance management across Azure services.

Nagios:

A powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems.

SolarWinds Orion:

A comprehensive IT management platform that offers a variety of monitoring and management tools.

PRTG Network Monitor:

An all-inclusive monitoring solution that ensures the availability of network components.

LogicMonitor:

A SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for enterprise IT and managed service providers.

Sysdig:

Provides secure containerization and Kubernetes monitoring and security.

Instana:

An application performance management solution for monitoring modern cloud and containerized applications.

TICK Stack:

A collection of open-source tools (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, Kapacitor) designed to handle time-series data.

Graylog:

An open-source log management tool that centralizes and simplifies log management.

AWS CloudWatch:

A monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, and IT managers.

Google

Cloud Operations Suite: A suite of tools to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve cloud infrastructure, application performance.

Icinga:

An open-source computer system and network monitoring application.

Opsgenie:

An incident management platform for alerting, on-call scheduling, and escalation.

PagerDuty:

An incident response platform for IT departments that helps manage incidents and alert the right people.

VictorOps:

A real-time incident response and alerting service for DevOps teams.

ManageEngine OpManager:

A network management platform that helps large enterprises manage their networks and data centers.

ThousandEyes:

Network intelligence and monitoring to understand performance of networks and applications.

Pingdom:

A website performance and availability monitoring tool.

Uptime Robot:

A simple tool for monitoring website uptime and downtime.

Scalyr:

A high-speed logging, server monitoring, and log analysis tool.

Catchpoint:

A digital experience monitoring platform that provides insights into the end-user experience.

Datadog APM:

Provides application performance monitoring to give visibility into application performance.

Rollbar:

Provides real-time error tracking and debugging tools for developers.

Raygun:

A suite of tools for error, crash, and performance monitoring for web and mobile applications.

Logz.io:

A cloud observability platform for log analytics and cloud SIEM.

Site24x7:

A cloud-based all-in-one monitoring solution for DevOps and IT operations.

Wavefront:

A metrics monitoring service for cloud and application environments.

Librato:

A cloud-based monitoring platform for aggregating and understanding metrics about your IT infrastructure.

BMC TrueSight:

A performance and availability monitoring suite for IT environments.

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring:

Helps simulate user interactions for application monitoring.

AppSignal:

Monitors and improves the performance of Ruby, Elixir, and Node.js applications.

Monitis:

A cloud-based tool offering website, server, and network monitoring.

Checkmk:

A comprehensive IT monitoring system in the tradition of Nagios.

Ruxit (now part of Dynatrace):

A full-stack monitoring solution that provides automated insights into application performance.

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