Best Datadog Alternatives
The top-ranked Datadog alternative is Grafana (Freemium). The best free option is Prometheus (open source).
Datadog is a comprehensive observability platform, but its costs can escalate quickly, driving teams to seek more affordable or open-source alternatives. Some want unified metrics, logs, and traces, others self-hosted control. These alternatives cover monitoring and observability.
1An open-source observability platform for metrics, logs, and traces dashboards.
2An observability platform for application performance, errors, and infrastructure.
3An open-source monitoring system and time-series database for metrics.
Dynatrace
SubscriptionAn AI-powered observability platform for full-stack monitoring.
Grafana Loki
Open SourceHorizontally scalable, cost-efficient log aggregation system by Grafana Labs.
Elastic Observability
FreemiumObservability built on the Elastic Stack for metrics, logs, and traces.
Splunk
SubscriptionA platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine data and logs.
An error tracking and performance monitoring platform for developers.
Honeycomb
FreemiumAn observability tool focused on high-cardinality tracing and debugging.
Zabbix
Open SourceOpen-source enterprise monitoring for networks, servers, and services.
SigNoz
Open SourceAn open-source observability platform for APM, logs, and traces.
AppDynamics
SubscriptionCisco's application performance monitoring platform for enterprises.
Datadog alternatives: FAQ
What is the best alternative to Datadog?
Grafana is ranked first on this list (Freemium). The ranking combines our base score with readers' votes, so it can change.
What is the best free alternative to Datadog?
The highest-ranked free or open-source options here are Prometheus, Grafana Loki and Zabbix.
Which Datadog alternatives work on Mac?
Elastic Observability run on macOS.
Which Datadog alternatives work on Linux?
Prometheus, Grafana Loki, Elastic Observability and Zabbix run on Linux.
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