Prometheus Alternatives

Prometheus is described as 'Open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Prometheus for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Linux, Self-Hosted, SaaS and Windows apps. The best Prometheus alternative is Better Stack. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Better Stack or HyperDX. Other great apps like Prometheus are Splunk, Graylog, Kibana and InfluxDB.

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  1. Better Stack icon
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    AI-driven SRE platform offering real-time infrastructure monitoring, incident management, log analytics, traces, error tracking, metrics, real user monitoring, status pages, and a warehouse, with full data ingestion, centralized dashboard, custom alerts, and reduced costs.

    289 Better Stack alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  2. Datadog icon
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    Monitor and visualize your IT and DevOps environments seamlessly with over 120 integrations, enabling real-time insight across on-premise and cloud deployments. Utilize robust analytics, graphing, and correlation tools for error logging and network monitoring. Improve collaboration and proactive IT management.

    261 Datadog alternatives

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    • Paid
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  3. HyperDX icon
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    An open source observability platform: Unify session replays, logs, traces, and errors – all without the Datadog price tag.

    88 HyperDX alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  4. Splunk icon
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    Splunk is software that provides unique visibility across your entire IT infrastructure from one place in real time. Only Splunk enables you to search, report, monitor and analyze streaming and historical data from any source.

    109 Splunk alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Graylog icon
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    Graylog is a powerful Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution offering a robust log analytics platform that simplifies the collection, search, analysis, and alerting of all types of machine-generated data.

    77 Graylog alternatives

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  6. Kibana icon
     35 likes

    Open-source interface for real-time visualization, search, monitoring logs or metrics, anomaly detection, and natural language queries in Elasticsearch, supporting machine learning, automated alerting, threat detection, and integration with tools like Slack and ServiceNow.

    49 Kibana alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    • European Union flagEU
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  7. InfluxDB icon
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    InfluxDB open source time series database, purpose-built by InfluxData for monitoring metrics and events, provides real-time visibility into stacks, sensors, and systems. Use InfluxDB to capture, analyze, and store millions of points per second, meet demanding SLA’s, and chart a...

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    • Mac
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    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
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  8. Grafana Loki icon
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    Grafana Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate. It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream.

    72 Grafana Loki alternatives

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  9. New Relic icon
     29 likes

    Pinpoint and solve performance issues in your Ruby, Java, .NET, PHP and Python apps with real user, application and server monitoring.

    152 New Relic alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  10. Gain unparalleled observability into applications, infrastructure, and network across cloud and hybrid setups. Offers visualizations, distributed tracing, centralized logs, and integrates seamlessly with Azure and third-party services while enhancing security and compliance.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Online
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  11. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications running on AWS. It collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, set alarms, and automatically react to changes in AWS resources.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
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  12. DeepFlow icon
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    Unify your cloud-native monitoring with zero-code eBPF, advanced profiling, and 10x storage efficiency.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  13. Levitate is a mission-critical time series database that allows control over queries and storage to build a cost-effective and toil-free foundation for operational readiness. It's built for high query performance, high availability, and low latency writing.

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    • Online
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