OpenTelemetry is the open-source observability standard under CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), unifying distributed traces, metrics, and logs data collection. Formed from the merger of OpenTracing and OpenCensus in 2019.
Google Cloud Monitoring (formerly Stackdriver) is Google Cloud's native observability platform, providing GCP-wide metric collection, Cloud Logging log management, and Error Reporting, with Managed Prometheus and Grafana integration.
Azure Monitor is Microsoft Azure's full-stack monitoring platform, providing VM, AKS, and application metrics, log analytics, and Application Insights APM, deeply integrated with the Azure ecosystem.
Amazon CloudWatch is AWS's native monitoring and observability service, providing metrics, logs, and alarm management across 200+ AWS services, with Logs Insights analysis and X-Ray distributed tracing.
AppDynamics, founded in 2008 in San Francisco and acquired by Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017, is a leader in enterprise APM. Its Business Transaction engine directly links application performance to business processes.
Splunk, founded in 2003 in San Francisco, USA, is a global leader in data and observability (acquired by Cisco), providing log management, SIEM, ITOA, and application monitoring at petabyte scale for 10,000+ enterprise customers.
Grafana, created by Grafana Labs in 2014 (Stockholm/New York), is the world's most popular open-source monitoring visualization platform with 20M+ users, 100+ data sources and 30+ panel types.
Dynatrace, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Linz, Austria, is an AI-powered enterprise observability leader (NYSE: DT). Its Davis AI engine detects anomalies and pinpoints root causes, delivering unified full-stack monitoring, digital experience management, and application security.
Sentry, founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, is the leading open-source error tracking and performance monitoring platform serving 100,000+ teams. It supports 40+ language SDKs, APM distributed tracing, and Session Replay, with both SaaS and self-hosted deployment.
New Relic, founded in 2008 in San Francisco, USA, is a pioneer in Application Performance Monitoring (APM), delivering full-stack observability across APM, logs, infrastructure, and digital experience for 5M+ users worldwide.
Datadog, founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, USA, is a leading cloud monitoring and observability platform offering infrastructure, APM, log and security monitoring with 3000+ integrations and 30000+ enterprise customers.
Thanos is a cloud-native open-source project providing highly available Prometheus setups and long-term storage, using a Sidecar architecture, and became a CNCF graduated project in 2021, used by thousands of enterprises for production observability.
Jaeger is a CNCF graduated open-source distributed tracing system created by Yuri Shkuro at Uber in 2015, supporting end-to-end trace analysis and OpenTelemetry protocol for microservice observability.
InfluxDB is developed and maintained by InfluxData, the world's leading time-series database purpose-built for monitoring, IoT, real-time analytics, and observability. The Rust and Apache Arrow-based 3.0 supports SQL + Flux, ranked
Envoy is a CNCF-graduated high-performance service proxy created by Lyft in 2016 and donated to CNCF, the benchmark data plane implementation for service meshes, widely used for microservice traffic management.
Raygun, founded in 2013 and headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand, is an application performance platform combining crash reporting, APM, and real user monitoring in a unified solution with SDKs for iOS, Android, and Web.
Logz.io is a cloud log analytics platform based on the open-source ELK Stack, offering managed ELK, AI anomaly detection, infrastructure monitoring, and distributed tracing to simplify observability.
Loggly is SolarWinds' leading cloud log management platform, offering centralized log collection, real-time search, and automatic parsing to help teams quickly troubleshoot issues.
Coralogix is an AI-driven observability platform headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, providing unified log, metrics, trace, and security monitoring with no-sampling data retention and automatic anomaly detection.
Sumo Logic, founded in 2010 in Redwood City, California, is a pioneer in cloud-native log management and observability (NASDAQ: SUMO). Its platform unifies log analytics, SIEM, and APM capabilities.
Founded 2011, Sensu is an open-source event-driven monitoring framework. Sensu Go is rewritten in Go with a Pipeline architecture for flexible event processing and alert routing. 300+ community plugins, 10,000+ events/sec per node throughput.
Sematext is a full-stack observability platform integrating infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, and synthetic monitoring, available as cloud-hosted or self-hosted.
New Relic, founded in 2008 in San Francisco, USA, is a pioneer in Application Performance Monitoring (APM), offering a full-stack observability platform spanning APM, log management, infrastructure monitoring, and digital experience monitoring.
Logtail is a Netherlands-based log management platform by Better Stack, powered by ClickHouse for sub-second log search. It offers real-time log streaming, flexible alerting, and 30+ integrations for quick observability setup.