Best Cloud Management Software for Startups

ManageEngine Applications Manager is an enterprise-ready platform designed to monitor an entire application ecosystem of a business organization. Our platform helps IT and DevOps teams get visibility into all the dependent components within their application stack. With Applications Manager, it becomes easier to monitor the performance of mission-critical web applications, web servers, databases, cloud services, middleware, ERP systems, messaging components, and more. It has tons of features that fast-track the troubleshooting process and help reduce MTTR. This way, issues are fixed before application end-users are affected. Applications Manager has a fully functional dashboard that can be customized to get performance insights at a glance. By configuring alerts, it constantly keeps a lookout for performance issues within the application stack. Combining this with intelligent machine learning, Applications Manager helps turn performance data into actionable insights.

Checkmk is a comprehensive IT monitoring system that enables system administrators, IT managers, and DevOps teams to identify issues across their entire IT infrastructure (servers, applications, networks, storage, databases, containers) and act quickly to resolve them More than 2,000 commercial customers and many more open source users worldwide use Checkmk daily. Key product features: • Service state monitoring with almost 2,000 checks 'out of the box' • Log and event-based monitoring • Metrics, dynamic graphing, and long-term storage • Comprehensive reporting incl. availability and SLAs • Flexible notifications and automated alert handling • Monitoring of business processes and complex systems • Hardware and software inventory • Graphical, rule-based configuration, and automated service discovery Top use cases: • Server Monitoring • Network Monitoring • Application Monitoring • Database Monitoring • Storage Monitoring • Cloud Monitoring • Container Monitoring

Sensu is the future-proof solution for multi-cloud monitoring at scale. The Sensu monitoring event pipeline empowers businesses to automate their monitoring workflows and gain deep visibility into their multi-cloud environments. Companies like Sony, Box.com, and Activision rely on Sensu to help deliver value to their customers faster and more reliably. Founded in 2017, Sensu offers a comprehensive monitoring solution for enterprises, providing complete visibility across every system, every protocol, every time — from Kubernetes to bare metal. Built by operators, for operators, open source is at the heart of the Sensu product and company, with an active, thriving community of contributors.

Tanzu Observability by Broadcom is a high-performance observability platform designed to monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud-native applications and infrastructure. It provides real-time visibility into the health, performance, and operations of complex applications by collecting and analyzing metrics, traces, and logs. Tanzu Observability leverages advanced AI and machine learning capabilities to detect anomalies and provide actionable insights, helping businesses proactively manage and optimize their digital environments. The platform’s scalable architecture supports large-scale deployments and offers deep insights into application performance, enabling faster troubleshooting and enhanced decision-making.