Monitoring and observability

Open-source alternatives to commercial monitoring and APM, built on OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger and related self-hosted stacks.

Datadog

Datadog is a hosted monitoring, APM and log platform billed per host and per GB or event; self-hosted replacements combine OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Jaeger.

New Relic

New Relic is a hosted observability platform billed on data ingested and user type; teams leaving it reuse OpenTelemetry instrumentation with Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger or Zabbix.

Dynatrace

Dynatrace is an APM and observability platform sold as SaaS or customer-run Managed under a committed consumption subscription; open-source replacements use OpenTelemetry with Prometheus, Grafana and Jaeger.

Atlassian Statuspage

Pages for Atlassian Statuspage customers moving public and private status pages and incident communication to self-hosted Uptime Kuma or OneUptime.

Sentry

Sentry is a hosted error tracking and application monitoring service whose self-hosted edition is source-available under the Functional Source License; these pages cover replacing Sentry SaaS with open-source GlitchTip.

Opsgenie

Opsgenie is Atlassian's on-call and alerting service, past end of sale and reaching end of support in April 2027; these pages cover moving to self-hosted GoAlert instead of Atlassian's recommended destination.

PagerDuty

PagerDuty is a SaaS incident management and on-call platform sold per user and as platform plans; these pages cover replacing its on-call scheduling and escalation with self-hosted GoAlert.

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

Hub for network teams replacing SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) with self-hosted open-source monitoring on Zabbix or LibreNMS: packaging, the Orion security history, API export and the comparison, migration and cost pages under it.

Paessler PRTG

Paessler PRTG is commercial network and infrastructure monitoring sold as sensor-based subscriptions, on premises or as PRTG Hosted Monitor; pages here cover replacing it with self-hosted Zabbix, Checkmk or LibreNMS.

Nagios XI

Nagios XI is the commercial monitoring product built on the open-source Nagios Core engine, licensed perpetually per node; pages here cover moving to Nagios Core, Icinga, Checkmk or Zabbix.

Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud is Grafana Labs' hosted service for metrics, logs, traces and dashboards built on its open-source projects; pages here cover running the same stack yourself with Grafana, Prometheus and Loki.

Honeycomb

Honeycomb is a hosted observability service for high-cardinality traces and events, priced by event volume; pages here cover self-hosted SigNoz or a Grafana stack fed by OpenTelemetry.

Splunk AppDynamics

Splunk AppDynamics, formerly Cisco AppDynamics, is APM sold per host or CPU as SaaS or on premises; pages here cover replacing it with OpenTelemetry and self-hosted SigNoz or Grafana and Prometheus.

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