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What are Observability Tools?
Observability tools are software platforms that help monitor, measure, and gain insights into the performance and health of systems, applications, and infrastructure. These tools provide a comprehensive view of the system by collecting and analyzing data from various sources, including logs, metrics, traces, and events. Observability tools are essential for identifying and diagnosing issues, improving system reliability, and optimizing performance. They enable real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and alerting, which allows teams to respond proactively to potential problems. By offering detailed insights into system behavior, observability tools are critical for DevOps, cloud-native environments, and microservices architectures. Compare and read user reviews of the best Observability tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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groundcover
groundcover
Cloud-based observability solution that helps businesses track and manage workload and performance on a unified dashboard. Monitor everything you run in your cloud without compromising on cost, granularity, or scale. groundcover is a full stack cloud-native APM platform designed to make observability effortless so that you can focus on building world-class products. By leveraging our proprietary sensor, groundcover unlocks unprecedented granularity on all your applications, eliminating the need for costly code changes and development cycles to ensure monitoring continuity. 100% visibility, all the time. Cover your entire Kubernetes stack instantly, with no code changes using the superpowers of eBPF instrumentation. Take control of your data, all in-cloud. groundcover’s unique inCloud architecture keeps your data private, secured and under your control without ever leaving your cloud premises.Starting Price: $20/month/node -
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Site24x7
ManageEngine
ManageEngine Site24x7 is a comprehensive observability and monitoring solution designed to help organizations effectively manage their IT environments. It offers monitoring for back-end IT infrastructure deployed on-premises, in the cloud, in containers, and on virtual machines. It ensures a superior digital experience for end users by tracking application performance and providing synthetic and real user insights. It also analyzes network performance, traffic flow, and configuration changes, troubleshoots application and server performance issues through log analysis, offers custom plugins for the entire tech stack, and evaluates real user usage. Whether you're an MSP or a business aiming to elevate performance, Site24x7 provides enhanced visibility, optimization of hybrid workloads, and proactive monitoring to preemptively identify workflow issues using AI-powered insights. Monitoring the end-user experience is done from more than 130 locations worldwide.Starting Price: $9.00/month -
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Auvik
Auvik Networks
Auvik delivers true network observability with automated mapping, real-time monitoring, and actionable insights. Visualize your entire infrastructure, from device connections to performance metrics, and quickly identify anomalies that could lead to disruptions. Auvik’s platform enables proactive management and optimization, ensuring your network remains resilient, secure, and high-performing at all times. -
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ManageEngine OpManager
ManageEngine
OpManager is a network management tool geared to monitor your entire network. Ensure all devices operate at peak health, performance, and availability. The extensive network monitoring capabilities lets you track performance of switches, routers, LANs, WLCs, IP addresses, and firewalls. Monitor the finer aspects of your network: Hardware monitoring enables CPU, memory, and disk monitoring, for efficient. performance of all devices. Perform seamless faults and alerts management with real-time notifications and detailed logs for quick issue detection and resolution. Achieve network automation, with workflows enabling automated diagnostics and troubleshooting actions. Advanced network visualization-including business views, topology maps, heat maps, and customizable dashboards give admins an at-a-glance view of network status. 250+ pre-built reports covering metrics like device performance, network usage, uptime, facilitate capacity planning and improved decision-making.Starting Price: $95.00/one-time -
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Sematext Cloud
Sematext Group
Sematext Cloud is an innovative, unified platform with all-in-one solution for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real user monitoring, and synthetic monitoring to provide unified, real-time observability of your entire technology stack. It's used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, with the goal of driving collaboration between engineering and business teams, reducing the time of root-cause analysis, understanding user behaviour and tracking key business metrics. The main capabilities range from log monitoring to APM, server monitoring, database monitoring, network monitoring, uptime monitoring, website monitoring or container monitoring Find complete details on our website. Or better: start a free demo, no email address required.Starting Price: $0 -
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New Relic
New Relic
There are an estimated 25 million engineers in the world across dozens of distinct functions. As every company becomes a software company, engineers are using New Relic to gather real-time insights and trending data about the performance of their software so they can be more resilient and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Only New Relic provides an all-in-one platform that is built and sold as a unified experience. With New Relic, customers get access to a secure telemetry cloud for all metrics, events, logs, and traces; powerful full-stack analysis tools; and simple, transparent usage-based pricing with only 2 key metrics. New Relic has also curated one of the industry’s largest ecosystems of open source integrations, making it easy for every engineer to get started with observability and use New Relic alongside their other favorite applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Datadog
Datadog
Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.Starting Price: $15.00/host/month -
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eG Enterprise
eG Innovations
IT performance monitoring is not about monitoring CPU, memory and network resources any more. eG Enterprise makes user experience the centerpiece of your IT monitoring and management strategy. With eG Enterprise, you can measure the digital experience of your users, get deep visibility into the performance the entire application delivery stack — from code to user experience, and data center to cloud — from a single pane of glass, correlate performance across domains and pinpoint the root-cause of problems proactively. Machine learning and analytics capabilities embedded in eG Enterprise enable IT teams make intelligent decisions regarding right-sizing, optimization and planning for future growth. The result: happy users, enhanced productivity, improved IT efficiency and tangible business ROI. eG Enterprise is available for installation on-premise and as a SaaS solution. Start a free trial today.Starting Price: $1,000 per month -
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Dynatrace
Dynatrace
The Dynatrace software intelligence platform. Transform faster with unparalleled observability, automation, and intelligence in one platform. Leave the bag of tools behind, with one platform to automate your dynamic multicloud and align multiple teams. Spark collaboration between biz, dev, and ops with the broadest set of purpose-built use cases in one place. Harness and unify even the most complex dynamic multiclouds, with out-of-the box support for all major cloud platforms and technologies. Get a broader view of your environment. One that includes metrics, logs, and traces, as well as a full topological model with distributed tracing, code-level detail, entity relationships, and even user experience and behavioral data – all in context. Weave Dynatrace’s open API into your existing ecosystem to drive automation in everything from development and releases to cloud ops and business processes.Starting Price: $11 per month -
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Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health. CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing you with a unified view of AWS resources, applications, and services that run on AWS and on-premises servers. You can use CloudWatch to detect anomalous behavior in your environments, set alarms, visualize logs and metrics side by side, take automated actions, troubleshoot issues, and discover insights to keep your applications. CloudWatch alarms watch your metric values against thresholds that you specify or that it creates using ML models to detect anomalous behavior. -
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Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic offers a cloud solution for log management and metrics monitoring for IT and security teams of organizations of all sizes. Faster troubleshooting with integrated logs, metrics and traces. One platform. Many use cases. Increase your troubleshooting effectiveness. Sumo Logic helps you reduce downtime and move from reactive to proactive monitoring with cloud-based modern analytics powered by machine learning. Quickly detect Indicators of Compromise (IoCs), accelerate investigation, and ensure compliance using Sumo Logic Security Analytics. Enable data-driven business decisions and predict and analyze customer behavior using Sumo Logic’s real-time analytics platform. The Sumo Logic platform helps you make data-driven decisions and reduce the time to investigate security and operational issues so you can free up resources for more important activities.Starting Price: $270.00 per month -
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InsightCat
InsightCat
Full-stack monitoring platform for your software and hardware. InsightCat is a full-stack infrastructure monitoring solution to search, analyze, and aggregate system metrics in one place. The solution was developed to be intuitive and cover the most vital requests of DevOps, System administrators, SecOps, and IT specialists related to infrastructure monitoring, security, log management, etc. The solution allows you to perform: Infrastructure monitoring. Detect anomalies within your infrastructure to eliminate them as quickly as possible and prevent the system from repeating similar issues. Synthetic monitoring. Monitor your web services around the clock and be aware in advance of the critical downtimes if they occur. Log management. Work with your log data and keep up with the root cause of any software error, within one place. Smart alerting and escalation. Set up the flexible alerting system to keep the team informed if any spikes, errors or unordinary behavior.Starting Price: $1.99 -
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AppDynamics
Cisco
We solve your most urgent business challenges with straightforward, flexible and scalable packages built to make your digital transformation a reality. Get started with our leading business observability platform, today. Get full-stack observability with a business lens from AppDynamics and Cisco. Prioritize what’s most important to your business and your people so you can see, share and take action in real-time. Turn performance into profit with a deeper understanding of user and application behavior. Correlate full-stack performance with key business metrics like conversions and quickly resolve issues before they impact the bottom line. Confidently face the unknowns in today’s technology landscape with easy-to-implement solutions that fuel growth, delight your customers and keep your people engaged in driving your business success. Connect app performance to customer experience and business outcomes, helping you prioritize the most critical issues before they affect your customers.Starting Price: $6 per month -
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Netreo
Netreo
Netreo is the most comprehensive full stack IT infrastructure management and observability platform. We provide a single source of truth for proactive performance and availability monitoring for large enterprise networks, infrastructure, applications and business services. Our solution is used by: - IT Executives to have full visibility from the business service right down into the infrastructure and network that supports it. - IT Engineering departments as a decision support system for capacity planning, and architecting modern solutions. - IT Operations teams for real time visibility into what is failing in their environment, what bottlenecks exist and who it is affecting. We provide all of these insights for systems and vendor mixes in large heterogeneous and constantly evolving environments. We have an extensive and growing list of supported vendors (over 350 integrations) including network vendors, servers, storage, virtualization, cloud platforms and others.Starting Price: $5/resource/mo -
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IBM Instana
IBM
IBM Instana is the gold standard of incident prevention with automated full-stack visibility, 1-second granularity and 3 seconds to notify. With today’s highly dynamic and complex cloud environments, the average cost of an hour of downtime can reach six figures and beyond. Traditional application performance monitoring (APM) tools simply aren’t fast enough to keep up or thorough enough to contextualize the issues identified. Also, they are typically limited to super users who must complete months of training to learn. IBM Instana Observability goes beyond traditional APM solutions by democratizing observability so anyone across DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, ITOps and development can get the data they want with the context they need. Instana Dynamic APM operates using the Instana agent architecture, which incorporates sensors—lightweight, automated programs tailored to monitor specific entities.Starting Price: $75 per month -
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SolarWinds AppOptics
SolarWinds
SolarWinds® AppOptics™ is a simple, powerful, and affordable SaaS-based infrastructure & application monitoring tool for custom on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems. By enabling quick identification of performance problems across the stack from the application, to underlying infrastructure, down to the line of code, AppOptics helps reduce MTTR. AppOptics was thoughtfully designed for simple setup and use by all IT professionals with powerful features to quickly and automatically pinpoint performance issues removing the guesswork from troubleshooting. AppOptics enables you to align infrastructure and application performance objectives side by side with business objectives.Starting Price: $9.99/host/month* -
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Edge Delta
Edge Delta
Edge Delta is a new way to do observability that helps developers and operations teams monitor datasets and create telemetry pipelines. We process your log data as it's created and give you the freedom to route it anywhere. Our primary differentiator is our distributed architecture. We are the only observability provider that pushes data processing upstream to the infrastructure level, enabling users to process their logs and metrics as soon as they’re created at the source. We combine our distributed approach with a column-oriented backend to help users store and analyze massive data volumes without impacting performance or cost. By using Edge Delta, customers can reduce observability costs without sacrificing visibility. Additionally, they can surface insights and trigger alerts before data leaves their environment.Starting Price: $0.20 per GB -
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LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor’s SaaS-based observability and IT operations data collaboration platform helps ITOps, developers, MSPs and business leaders gain visibility into and predictability across the technologies that modern organizations depend on to deliver extraordinary employee and customer experiences. LogicMonitor seamlessly monitors everything from networks to applications to the cloud, empowering companies to focus less on troubleshooting and more on innovation. Bridge the gap between tech, teams, and IT with powerful real-time dashboards, network device configurations, full data center visibility, network scanning, and flexible alerting and reporting. -
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Stackify Retrace
Stackify
After one too many unexpected late night code fires, we went searching for a set of application performance management tools to help us put an end to it. What we found told us what was broken, but lacked the ability to tell us why our applications failed, or how to maintain them and prevent the potential dumpster fire. So, we built Retrace to do exactly that. From pre-production to deployment, it is our belief that when our 1300+ customers spend less time fighting technology they spend more time releasing it, and those new applications make the world a better place for all of us.Starting Price: $99/month -
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Honeycomb
Honeycomb.io
Log management. Upgraded. With Honeycomb. Honeycomb is built for modern dev teams to better understand application performance, debug & improve log management. With rapid query, find unknown unknowns across system logs, metrics & traces with interactive charts for the deepest view against raw, high cardinality data. Configure Service Level Objective (SLOs) on what users care about so you cut-down noisy alerts and prioritize the work. Reduce on-call toil, ship code faster and keep customers happy. Pinpoint the cause. Optimize your code. See your prod in hi-res. Our SLOs tell you when your customers are having a bad experience so that you can immediately debug why those issues are happening, all within the same interface. Use our Query Builder to easily slice and dice your data to visualize behavioral patterns for individual users and services (grouped by any dimensions).Starting Price: $70 per month -
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Elastic APM
Elastic
Get deep visibility into your cloud-native and distributed applications — from microservices to serverless architectures — and quickly identify and resolve root causes of issues. Seamlessly adopt APM to automatically identify anomalies, map service dependencies, and simplify investigations into outliers and abnormal behavior. Optimize your application code with extensive support for popular languages, OpenTelemetry, and distributed tracing. Identify performance issues with automated and curated visual representation of all dependencies, including cloud, messaging, data store, and third-party services and their performance data. Drill into anomalies, transaction details, and metrics for deeper analysis.Starting Price: $95 per month -
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Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon
Increase operational excellence by using a popular open source solution, managed by AWS. Audit and secure your data with a data center and network architecture with built-in certifications. Systematically detect potential threats and react to a system’s state through machine learning, alerting, and visualization. Optimize time and resources for strategic work. Securely unlock real-time search, monitoring, and analysis of business and operational data. Amazon OpenSearch Service makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more. OpenSearch is an open source, distributed search and analytics suite derived from Elasticsearch. Amazon OpenSearch Service offers the latest versions of OpenSearch, support for 19 versions of Elasticsearch (1.5 to 7.10 versions), as well as visualization capabilities powered by OpenSearch dashboards and Kibana.Starting Price: $0.036 per hour -
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KloudMate
KloudMate
Squash latencies, detect bottlenecks, and debug errors. Join a rapidly expanding community of businesses from around the world, that are achieving 20X value and ROI by adopting KloudMate, compared to any other observability platform. Quickly monitor crucial metrics, and dependencies, and detect anomalies through alarms and issue tracking. Instantly locate ‘break-points’ in your application development lifecycle, to proactively fix issues. View service maps for every component in your application, and uncover intricate interconnections and dependencies. Trace every request and operation, providing detailed visibility into execution paths and performance metrics. Whether it's multi-cloud, hybrid, or private architecture, access unified Infrastructure monitoring capabilities to monitor metrics and gather insights. Supercharge debugging speed and precision with a complete system view. Identify and resolve issues faster.Starting Price: $60 per month -
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ServiceNow Cloud Observability
ServiceNow
ServiceNow Cloud Observability is a solution that provides real-time monitoring and visibility into cloud infrastructure, applications, and services. It enables organizations to proactively identify and resolve performance issues by integrating data from various cloud environments into a unified dashboard. With advanced analytics and alerting capabilities, ServiceNow Cloud Observability helps IT and DevOps teams detect anomalies, troubleshoot problems, and ensure optimal system performance. The platform also supports automation and AI-driven insights, allowing teams to respond quickly to incidents and prevent potential disruptions. Overall, it improves operational efficiency and ensures a seamless user experience across cloud environments.Starting Price: $275 per month -
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Coralogix
Coralogix
Coralogix is the leading stateful streaming platform providing modern engineering teams with real-time insights and long-term trend analysis with no reliance on storage or indexing. Ingest data from any source for a centralized platform to manage, monitor, and alert on your applications. As data is ingested, Coralogix instantly narrows millions of events down to common patterns for deeper insights and faster troubleshooting. Machine learning algorithms continuously observe data patterns and flows between system components and trigger dynamic alerts so you know when a pattern deviates from the norm without static thresholds or the need for pre-configurations. Connect any data, in any format, and view your insights anywhere including our purpose-built UI, Kibana, Grafana, SQL clients, Tableau, or using our CLI and full API support. Coralogix has successfully completed relevant security and privacy compliances by BDO including GDPR, SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA, and ISO 27001/27701. -
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BMC Helix Operations Management
BMC Software
BMC Helix Operations Management is a fully integrated, cloud-native, observability and AIOps solution designed to tackle challenging hybrid-cloud environments. Take a service-centric approach to observability data for truly effective AIOps. Combine 3rd party observability data such as metrics, events, logs, incidents, changes and topologies into a central IT data store. See service health and enable best-in-class root cause isolation via auto-generated dynamic business service models. Improve signal-to-noise ratio with AI event suppression, de-duplication, and correlation to create actionable situations. Gain immediate root cause isolation through AI probability assignments to causal nodes using data and service models. Prevent issues before they occur with Business Service Health monitoring and AI outage prediction. Troubleshoot rapidly with log enrichment and analytics. Easily request and execute automations from BMC or 3rd party tools. -
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Epsagon
Epsagon
Epsagon enables teams to instantly visualize, understand and optimize their microservice architectures. With our unique lightweight auto-instrumentation, gaps in data and manual work associated with other APM solutions are eliminated, providing significant reductions in issue detection, root cause analysis and resolution times. Increase development velocity and reduce application downtime with Epsagon.Starting Price: $89 per month -
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meshIQ
meshIQ
Middleware Observability & Management Software for Messaging, Event Processing, and Streaming Across Hybrid Cloud (MESH). - Complete observability and monitoring of Integration MESH with 360° Situational Awareness® - Securely manage, and automate configuration, administration, and deployment - Track, trace, and analyze transactions, messages and flows - Collect, monitor, and benchmark MESH performance meshIQ delivers granular access controls to manage configurations across the MESH to reduce downtime and quick recovery from outages. Provides the ability to find, browse, track, and trace messages to detect bottlenecks and speeding up root-cause analysis. Unlocks the integration blackbox to deliver visibility across the MESH infrastructure to visualize, analyze, report, and predict. Delivers the ability to trigger automated actions based on pre-defined criteria or intelligent actions determined by AI/ML. -
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Splunk APM
Splunk
Innovate faster in the cloud, elevate user experience and future-proof your applications. Built for the cloud-native enterprise, Splunk helps you solve modern issues. Detect any issue before it turns into a customer problem. Reduce MTTR with our real-time, AI-driven Directed Troubleshooting. Flexible, open-source instrumentation eliminates lock-in. Maximize performance by seeing everything in your application, and act on AI-driven analytics. To deliver a flawless end-user experience, you need to observe everything. With NoSample™ full-fidelity trace ingestion, leverage all your trace data to identify any anomaly. Reduce MTTR with Directed Troubleshooting to quickly understand service dependencies, correlation with underlying infrastructure and root-cause error mapping. Breakdown and explore any transaction by any metric or dimension. Quickly and easily understand how your application behaves for different regions, hosts, versions or users.Starting Price: $660 per Host per year -
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Kloudfuse
Kloudfuse
Kloudfuse is an AI‑powered unified observability platform that scales cost‑effectively, combining metrics, logs, traces, events, and digital experience monitoring into a single observability data lake. It integrates with over 700 sources, agent‑based or open source, without re‑instrumentation, and supports open query languages like PromQL, LogQL, TraceQL, GraphQL, and SQL while enabling custom workflows through webhooks and notifications. Organizations can deploy Kloudfuse within their VPC using a simple single‑command install and manage it centrally via a control plane. It automatically ingests and indexes telemetry data with intelligent facets, enabling fast search, context‑aware ML‑based alerts, and SLOs with reduced false positives. Users gain full‑stack visibility, from frontend RUM and session replays to backend profiling, traces, and metrics, allowing navigation from user experience down to code‑level issues.
