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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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Grafana
Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs provides an open and composable observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Recognized as a 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Observability Platforms and positioned furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision, Grafana Labs supports over 25M users and 5,000+ customers—including Bloomberg, Citigroup, and Salesforce. The LGTM Stack combines Grafana for visualization, Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for traces. Grafana Cloud, the fully managed offering, accelerates time to value with turnkey solutions for Kubernetes monitoring, incident response, load testing, and more. It features Adaptive Metrics for cost-efficient data aggregation and native OTel support and Grafana Assistant (AI powered o11y). Built on open standards, Grafana empowers teams to visualize and correlate data from any source—without vendor lock-in—self-managed or in the cloud. Grafana Cloud scales with you, securely.Starting Price: $0 -
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ManageEngine OpManager
ManageEngine
ManageEngine OpManager serves as an observability solution by offering deep visibility into the health, performance, and availability of IT infrastructure components. While traditionally known for network monitoring, OpManager extends its capabilities to support observability by collecting and analyzing a wide range of performance metrics across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. With real-time dashboards, intelligent alerts, and historical trend analysis, it enables IT teams to detect anomalies, troubleshoot faster, and maintain system reliability. OpManager’s ability to correlate infrastructure data and provide actionable insights makes it a valuable tool for organizations aiming to enhance their observability posture and ensure seamless digital operations.Starting Price: $95.00/one-time -
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Gearset
Gearset
Gearset gives you full visibility into your Salesforce org’s health — capturing Flow and Apex errors, monitoring org limits, and surfacing issues before they impact users.  With a single dashboard, you can track error trends, identify the most-problematic Flows or Apex classes, and view how many users were impacted. Set up real-time alerts via Slack or Microsoft Teams, build custom rules (e.g., “If Flow X fails more than 10 times in 5 minutes”), and automatically link errors to tickets in Jira or Azure DevOps for triage. Monitor platform limits (API calls, storage, email, etc.) in one place — keeping you ahead of bottlenecks and potential system outages. By shifting from reactive monitoring to proactive observability, Gearset empowers your team to catch problems early, reduce downtime and continuously improve your Salesforce platform stability.Starting Price: $200 per user, per month -
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AdRem NetCrunch
AdRem Software
NetCrunch is a powerful, scalable, all-in-one network monitoring system built for modern IT environments. It supports agentless monitoring of thousands of devices, covering SNMP, servers, virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), traffic flows (NetFlow, sFlow), logs, and custom data via REST or scripts. With 670+ monitoring packs and dynamic views, it automates discovery, configuration, alerting, and automates self-healing actions for efficient remote remediation in response to alerts. Its node-based licensing eliminates sensor sprawl and complexity, providing a clear, cost-effective path to scale. Real-time dashboards, policy-driven setup, advanced alert tuning and 40+ alert actions including remote script execution, service restart, process kill or device reboot-make NetCrunch ideal for organizations replacing legacy tools like PRTG, SolarWinds, or WhatsUp Gold. Fast to deploy and future-proof. Can be installed on prem, self hosted in the cloud, or mixed.Starting Price: $1600 for NetCrunch 50 nodes -
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NetBrain
NetBrain Technologies
NetBrain helps IT teams halve MTTR and prevent outages with AI-driven automation. Trusted by 2,500+ enterprises worldwide, our no-code, intent-based platform turns manual network operations into intelligent automation, keeping networks running smoothly and efficiently. Top use cases: - Automated Troubleshooting - Automated Change Management - Network AIOps - Network Assessment - Network Visibility - Network Observability - Network Security -
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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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SolarWinds Observability SaaS
SolarWinds
SaaS-delivered Observability built to extend visibility across cloud-native, on-prem, and hybrid technology stacks. SolarWinds Observability SaaS delivers unified and comprehensive visibility for cloud-native, on-premises, and hybrid custom and commercial applications to help ensure optimal service levels and user satisfaction with key business services. For internally written and commercial applications. Unified code-level troubleshooting with transaction tracing, code-profiling, and exception tracking combined with end user experience insights through synthetic and real user monitoring. Deep database performance monitoring. Increase system performance, team efficiency, and infrastructure cost savings by offering full visibility into open-source databases including MySQL®, PostgreSQL®, MongoDB®, Azure® SQL, Amazon Aurora®, and Redis®. -
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Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic, Inc. helps make the digital world secure, fast, and reliable by unifying critical security and operational data through its Intelligent Operations Platform. Built to address the increasing complexity of modern cybersecurity and cloud operations challenges, we empower digital teams to move from reaction to readiness—combining agentic AI-powered SIEM and log analytics into a single platform to detect, investigate, and resolve modern challenges. Customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic for trusted insights to protect against security threats, ensure reliability, and gain powerful insights into their digital environments. Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM helps your team detect, investigate, and respond to threats with faster behavioral analytics and automation—powered by real-time data and logs-first intelligence. Sumo Logic UEBA baselines user and entity behavior in minutes—training models on historical data to reduce false positives and surface high-risk anomalies.Starting Price: $270.00 per month -
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Portainer Business
Portainer
Portainer is an intuitive container management platform for Docker, Kubernetes, and Edge-based environments. With a smart UI, Portainer enables you to build, deploy, manage, and secure your containerized environments with ease. It makes container adoption easier for the whole team and reduces time-to-value on Kubernetes and Docker/Swarm. With a simple GUI and a comprehensive API, the product makes it easy for engineers to deploy and manage container-based apps, triage issues, automate CI/CD workflows and set up CaaS (container-as-a-service) environments regardless of hosting environment or K8s distro. Portainer Business is designed to be used in a team environment with multiple users and clusters. The product includes a range of security features, including RBAC, OAuth integration, and logging - making it suitable for use in complex production environments. Portainer also allows you to set up GitOps automation for deployment of your apps to Docker and K8s based on Git repos.Starting Price: Free -
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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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InfluxDB
InfluxData
InfluxDB is a purpose-built data platform designed to handle all time series data, from users, sensors, applications and infrastructure — seamlessly collecting, storing, visualizing, and turning insight into action. With a library of more than 250 open source Telegraf plugins, importing and monitoring data from any system is easy. InfluxDB empowers developers to build transformative IoT, monitoring and analytics services and applications. InfluxDB’s flexible architecture fits any implementation — whether in the cloud, at the edge or on-premises — and its versatility, accessibility and supporting tools (client libraries, APIs, etc.) make it easy for developers at any level to quickly build applications and services with time series data. Optimized for developer efficiency and productivity, the InfluxDB platform gives builders time to focus on the features and functionalities that give their internal projects value and their applications a competitive edge.Starting Price: $0 -
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Cribl Stream
Cribl
Cribl Stream allows you to implement an observability pipeline which helps you parse, restructure, and enrich data in flight - before you pay to analyze it. Get the right data, where you want, in the formats you need. Route data to the best tool for the job - or all the tools for the job - by translating and formatting data into any tooling schema you require. Let different departments choose different analytics environments without having to deploy new agents or forwarders. As much as 50% of log and metric data goes unused – null fields, duplicate data, and fields that offer zero analytical value. With Cribl Stream, you can trim wasted data streams and analyze only what you need. Cribl Stream is the best way to get multiple data formats into the tools you trust for your Security and IT efforts. Use the Cribl Stream universal receiver to collect from any machine data source - and even to schedule batch collection from REST APIs, Kinesis Firehose, Raw HTTP, and Microsoft Office 365 APIsStarting Price: Free (1TB / Day) -
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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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You’ve embraced cloud architecture. But its complexity is difficult to monitor. The IBM Cloud Monitoring service is a fully managed monitoring service for administrators, DevOps teams and developers. Expect deep container visibility and comprehensive metrics. Reduce cost as you free up DevOps and better manage the software lifecycle. Configure a cluster to forward metrics to the IBM Cloud Monitoring service in the IBM Cloud. Increase productivity of administrators, DevOps teams and devs. Get notifications about metrics and events. Use dashboards to help you see the health of your environment. Discover apps, containers, hosts and networks dynamically. Display content and control access on a per-user, per-team basis. Configure an Ubuntu host to forward metrics to the IBM Cloud Monitoring service in the IBM Cloud. Cloud monitoring and troubleshooting for infrastructure, cloud services and applications.Starting Price: $37 per month
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TelemetryHub
TelemetryHub by Scout APM
Built on the open-source framework OpenTelemetry, TelemetryHub is the ultimate application monitoring tool with correlated logs and metrics. TelemetryHub provides a single pane of glass for all logs, metrics, and tracing data. A Simple, out-of-the-box observability tool that visualizes all your system telemetry data in a consumable format with no proprietary agent that results in vendor lock-in.Starting Price: Free -
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OpsCruise
OpsCruise
Your newer cloud-native apps have an order of magnitude more dependencies, ephemerality, releases, and telemetry. Proprietary monitoring and APM tools were born in the era of monolithic apps and static infrastructure. They are expensive, intrusive, siloed, and generate more noise than they’re worth. Open source and cloud monitoring tools offer an excellent foundation but require highly skilled engineers to integrate, maintain and analyze the data they surface. Your journey to modern infrastructure is stretching the limits of your monitoring framework. It’s time for a fresh approach. It’s time for OpsCruise! Our platform’s deep understanding of Kubernetes, coupled with our unique ML-based behavior profiling empowers your entire team to predict performance degradations and instantly surface their cause. All at a third of the cost of the current monitoring stack and without the need to instrument code, deploy agents, or maintain open-source tools.Starting Price: Free -
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OCI Observability
Oracle
Monitor, analyze, and manage multi-cloud applications and infrastructure environments with full-stack visibility, prebuilt analytics, and automation using Oracle Cloud Observability and Management Platform. Complete visibility through infrastructure monitoring, real user experience, synthetic monitoring, and distributed tracing. Monitor and troubleshoot issues faster by analyzing data from any source using interactive, intuitive dashboards. Unified monitoring, capacity planning, and database administration capabilities for on-premises and cloud databases. Deploy and manage Oracle Cloud resources using Terraform-based automation and manage data exchanges. Complete app performance visibility through real user experience, synthetic monitoring, and distributed tracing. Unified database monitoring and administration capabilities for on-premises and cloud databases. Easily review log data, diagnose issues, and generate notifications using predefined triggers.Starting Price: $30 per month -
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Prefix
Stackify
It’s easy to maximize app performance with your FREE preview trial of Prefix featuring OpenTelemetry. With the latest open-source observability protocol, OTel Prefix streamlines application development with universal telemetry data ingestion, unmatched observability, and extended language support. OTel Prefix puts the power of OpenTelemetry in the hands of developers, supercharging performance optimization for your entire DevOps team. With unmatched observability across user environments, new technologies, frameworks, and architectures, OTel Prefix simplifies every step in code development, app creation, and ongoing performance optimization for your apps and your team! With Summary Dashboards, consolidated logs, distributed tracing, smart suggestions, and the ability to jump from logs to traces (and back), Prefix puts powerful APM capabilities in the hands of developers.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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Azure Managed Grafana
Microsoft
Azure Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for analytics and monitoring solutions. It's supported by Grafana Enterprise, which provides extensible data visualizations. Quickly and easily deploy Grafana dashboards with built-in high availability and control access with Azure security. Access a wide variety of data sources supported by Grafana Enterprise and connect to your data stores in Azure and elsewhere. Combine charts, logs, and alerts to create one holistic view of your application and infrastructure. Correlate information across multiple datasets. Share Grafana dashboards with people inside and outside of your organization. Allow others to contribute to solution monitoring and troubleshooting.Starting Price: $0.085 per hour -
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Dash0
Dash0
Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform that unifies metrics, logs, traces, and resources into one intuitive interface, enabling fast and context-rich monitoring without vendor lock-in. It centralizes Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics, supports powerful filtering of high-cardinality attributes, and provides heatmap drilldowns and detailed trace views to pinpoint errors and bottlenecks in real time. Users benefit from fully customizable dashboards built on Perses, with support for code-based configuration and Grafana import, plus seamless integration with predefined alerts, checks, and PromQL queries. Dash0's AI-enhanced tools, such as Log AI for automated severity inference and pattern extraction, enrich telemetry data without requiring users to even notice that AI is working behind the scenes. These AI capabilities power features like log classification, grouping, inferred severity tagging, and streamlined triage workflows through the SIFT framework.Starting Price: $0.20 per month -
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Foxglove
Foxglove
Foxglove is a visualization, observability, and data management platform purpose-built for robotics and embodied AI development that centralizes and simplifies working with large, multimodal temporal datasets, including time series, sensor logs, imagery, lidar/point clouds, geospatial maps, and more, in a single, integrated workspace. It enables engineers to record, import, organize, stream, and visualize both live and recorded data from robots using intuitive, customizable dashboards with interactive panels for 3D scenes, plots, raw messages, images, and maps, helping users understand how robots sense, think, and act. Foxglove supports real-time connections to systems like ROS and ROS 2 via bridges and web sockets, enables cross-platform workflows (desktop app for Linux, Windows, and macOS), and facilitates rapid analysis, debugging, and performance optimization by synchronizing diverse data sources in time and space.Starting Price: $18 per month -
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Uptycs
Uptycs
Uptycs is the first unified CNAPP and XDR platform. Reduce risk by prioritizing responses to threats, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, sensitive data exposure, and compliance mandates. With Uptycs, you can protect your entire enterprise, from laptops and servers to public and private cloud infrastructure. The platform streamlines your response to threats and offers a single UI and data model for easy management. Uptycs ties together threat activity as it traverses on-prem and cloud boundaries, delivering a more cohesive security posture. If you're looking for a powerful security solution that eliminates silos and tool sprawl, Uptycs is the answer. Looking for acronym coverage? We have you covered, including CNAPP, CWPP, CSPM, KSPM, CIEM, CDR, and XDR. Start with your Detection Cloud, Google-like search, and the attack surface coverage you need today. Be ready for what’s next. Shift up with Uptycs. -
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EV Observe
EasyVista
Increasing service and support efficiency and business satisfaction starts with predicting and avoiding downtime. EV Observe is a monitoring platform for network, IoT, IT infrastructure, cloud, and application monitoring that delivers an end-to-end service experience. We make it easy for organizations to embrace a proactive and predictive approach to service support, delivery, and observability, including collaborative self-help, self-healing, and comprehensive performance and availability insights. This helps teams to focus on value delivery and innovation that drives business outcomes, resulting in higher employee engagement and a better customer experience, increased productivity, and improved resiliency. Designed for SaaS monitoring in a multi-client, multi-site context for the cloud. Integrated software production tool covering the entire spectrum of software processes, and has instituted DevOps practices. -
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Cribl Edge
Cribl
Your not-so-secret agent for vendor-neutral unified collection. Cribl Edge is an intelligent, highly scalable edge-based data collection system for logs, metrics, and application data. Combined with automatic log discovery and metrics production, Cribl Edge is designed to support today’s modern distributed microservice architectures. Centrally deploy, configure, and manage your agents to easily expand and reduce resource overhead, all while avoiding vendor lock-in with agnostic integrations. Replace multiple legacy agents and cut redundant proprietary systems to reduce complexity, shrink attack surfaces, and cut costs. Say goodbye to those painful, manual upgrades and give control back to your team with a central place for agent management. Get a handle of your dispersed infrastructure with the ability to efficiently deploy and monitor thousands of nodes in days, not weeks. -
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SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted
SolarWinds
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly known as Hybrid Cloud Observability) is a comprehensive, integrated, full-stack observability solution designed to help organizations ensure availability and reduce remediation time across on-premises and multi-cloud environments by increasing visibility, intelligence, and productivity. It integrates data from across the IT ecosystem, including networks, servers, applications, databases, and more, providing a unified view of service delivery and component dependencies. The platform offers features such as network performance monitoring, flow monitoring and analysis, network device configuration management, IP address monitoring, and management, user and device tracking, server and application management, virtualization monitoring and management, log monitoring and analysis, server configuration management, and VoIP and network quality assurance. -
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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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Isovalent
Isovalent
Isovalent Cilium Enterprise enables cloud-native networking, security, and observability. Your cloud-native infrastructure, powered by eBPF. Connect, secure, and observe cloud-native applications in multi-cluster, multi-cloud environments. A highly scalable CNI and a multi-cluster networking solution that offers high-performance load balancing, advanced network policy management, etc. Shifting security to a process behavior instead of packet header enabling. Open source is at the core of Isovalent. We think, innovate, and breathe open source and are fully committed to the principles and values of open source communities. Request a personalized live demo with an Isovalent Cilium Enterprise expert. Engage with the Isovalent sales team to assess an enterprise-grade deployment of Cilium. Step through our interactive labs in a sandbox environment. Advanced application monitoring. Runtime security, transparent encryption, compliance monitoring, and CI/CD & GitOps integration. -
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Broadcom WatchTower Platform
Broadcom
Enhancing business performance by simplifying the identification and resolution of high-priority incidents. The WatchTower Platform is an observability solution that simplifies incident resolution in mainframe environments by integrating and correlating events, data flows, and metrics across IT silos. It offers a unified, user-friendly experience for operations teams to streamline workflows. Built on familiar AIOps solutions, WatchTower detects potential issues early, facilitating proactive avoidance. It also uses OpenTelemetry to stream mainframe data and insights to observability tools, enabling enterprise SREs to identify bottlenecks and enhance operational efficiency. WatchTower augments alerts with pertinent context, eliminating the need for multiple tool logins to collect critical information. WatchTower workflows expedite problem identification, investigation, and incident resolution, and simplify problem handover and escalation. -
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Amazon Managed Grafana
Amazon
Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service that simplifies the process of visualizing and analyzing operational data at scale. It allows users to create workspaces, logically isolated Grafana servers, that can be provisioned, set up, scaled and maintained automatically. These workspaces enable the visualization, analysis, and correlation of operational data across multiple sources, including AWS services like Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, as well as third-party data sources. It integrates seamlessly with AWS security services, ensuring compliance with corporate security requirements. Additionally, Amazon Managed Grafana supports migration from self-managed Grafana environments, allowing users to retain existing dashboards and configurations. It also offers collaborative features such as real-time dashboard viewing and editing, version tracking, and sharing capabilities, enhancing team productivity.
