Best Cloud Monitoring in 2026

Akamai Cloud Longview

Longview suits Linux server operators who want aggregate and per-process CPU, memory, and network metrics in Cloud Manager.

It suits software engineers who need to detect application anomalies and investigate root causes using service health and telemetry signals.

It suits teams responsible for cloud-native applications and microservices that need service-level views, correlated telemetry, and distributed tracing.

Nagios XI

Nagios XI suits teams that want to host monitoring on their own Linux infrastructure and need configurable checks, notifications and access controls.

Netdata lists platform engineers, DevOps teams, SREs, developers, system administrators, CISOs, DBAs, network engineers, and MSPs among its audiences.

Google Cloud Monitoring

It suits teams monitoring applications, infrastructure, Kubernetes workloads, or services across Google Cloud and hybrid or multicloud environments.

VictoriaMetrics

It suits teams that need metrics monitoring and storage, or organizations building observability across metrics, logs, and traces.

HostedMetrics suits teams needing managed Prometheus, InfluxDB, and Grafana monitoring across infrastructure and IoT data.

Intro is described for individuals, Basic for small teams and startups, and Core for growing teams with scaling metrics.

Mackerel

Mackerel suits teams monitoring cloud infrastructure, servers or container workloads.

Prometheus

It suits teams that need open-source metrics collection, querying and alerting, including self-hosted deployments.

Pixie

Pixie suits developers who need observability and debugging for supported Kubernetes environments and can run Linux nodes.

Zabbix

Zabbix suits organizations monitoring infrastructure, applications, networks or services across varied data sources.

Sysdig Monitor

It suits organizations monitoring containers, Kubernetes, Prometheus, cloud services, cloud instances, or serverless resources.

Robusta

It suits engineering teams managing cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure that need alert investigation, integrations, and configurable deployment or model control.