Best Observability Tools

Compare the Top Observability Tools as of April 2025

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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    New Relic

    New Relic

    New Relic

    New Relic's enterprise Observability software provides a comprehensive platform for gaining deep insights into the performance and behavior of your software systems. Designed for large-scale operations, our unified data platform aggregates telemetry data from across your entire tech stack, offering powerful full-stack analysis tools that deliver detailed insights into system behavior, dependencies, and performance. With real-time monitoring, automated alerts, and customizable dashboards, New Relic enables you to proactively identify and resolve issues, optimize performance, and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Simplify observability, enhance operational efficiency, and drive innovation with New Relic's advanced Observability solutions.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Site24x7

    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.
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    Starting Price: $9.00/month
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    Sematext Cloud

    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.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    GitLab

    GitLab

    GitLab

    GitLab is a complete DevOps platform. With GitLab, you get a complete CI/CD toolchain out-of-the-box. One interface. One conversation. One permission model. GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. GitLab helps teams accelerate software delivery from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs, and reduce the risk of application vulnerabilities while increasing developer productivity. Source code management enables coordination, sharing and collaboration across the entire software development team. Track and merge branches, audit changes and enable concurrent work, to accelerate software delivery. Review code, discuss changes, share knowledge, and identify defects in code among distributed teams via asynchronous review and commenting. Automate, track and report code reviews.
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    Starting Price: $29 per user per month
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    Datadog

    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.
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    Starting Price: $15.00/host/month
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    Dynatrace

    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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    Portainer Business
    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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    Netreo

    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 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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    SigNoz

    SigNoz

    SigNoz

    SigNoz is an open source Datadog or New Relic alternative. A single tool for all your observability needs, APM, logs, metrics, exceptions, alerts, and dashboards powered by a powerful query builder. You don’t need to manage multiple tools for traces, metrics, and logs. Get great out-of-the-box charts and a powerful query builder to dig deeper into your data. Using an open source standard frees you from vendor lock-in. Use auto-instrumentation libraries of OpenTelemetry to get started with little to no code change. OpenTelemetry is a one-stop solution for all your telemetry needs. A single standard for all telemetry signals means increased developer productivity and consistency across teams. Write queries on all telemetry signals. Run aggregates, and apply filters and formulas to get deeper insights from your data. SigNoz uses ClickHouse, a fast open source distributed columnar database. Ingestion and aggregations are lightning-fast.
    Starting Price: $199 per month
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    KloudMate

    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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    Akita

    Akita

    Akita

    Designed for any developer or SRE, Akita delivers observability without the complexity. No code changes. No frameworks. Just deploy, observe, and learn. Solve issues quicker and ship faster. Akita helps you identify the cause of issues by modeling API behavior and mapping out how services are interacting with each other. Akita builds models of your API endpoints and their behavior, allowing you to discover breaking changes faster. Akita helps you debug latency issues and errors by showing you what has changed within your service graph. See what services you have in your system, without having to onboard service-by-service. Akita works by passively watching API traffic, making it possible to run Akita easily across your services, without changing code or using a proxy.
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