Alternatives to Apache SkyWalking

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

Middleware

Middleware suits organizations looking for observability across infrastructure, applications, and real-user activity.

AppSignal

AppSignal suits developers and teams that need cloud monitoring across errors, performance, logs, and traces.

Uptrace

Uptrace offers a self-hosted Community edition described for individuals, Starter for side projects, Team as a production default and Business for reliability and compliance.

Honeycomb

The Free plan is described for testing and individual projects; Pro is aimed at teams with a production application.

Azure Application Insights

Application Insights suits teams that need telemetry collection, usage analytics, and diagnostics for applications across supported workloads.

Dynatrace Application Monitoring

It suits teams that need visibility across applications, infrastructure and cloud environments, including real-user experience and transaction tracing.

IT operations, architects, SREs, SMEs, DevOps personnel, and developers needing application, infrastructure, and user-experience monitoring.

groundcover

It suits teams monitoring production environments that want to collect telemetry without manual instrumentation.

It suits teams operating distributed systems that can deploy and manage self-hosted tracing infrastructure.

It suits Node.js teams needing application and server monitoring, debugging, custom metrics, and deployment visibility.

Raygun Application Performance Monitoring

Raygun APM is aimed at customer-centric teams looking to identify performance issues that affect end-user experience.

SigNoz

SigNoz suits engineering teams monitoring applications and infrastructure across logs, metrics, traces, and exceptions.

Skylight suits teams maintaining Ruby or Rails applications that need endpoint, query, deployment, and background-job performance analysis.

Scout APM

It suits engineering teams monitoring supported application languages and wanting combined observability data, anomaly alerts, and query analysis.

ManageEngine Applications Manager

It may suit teams monitoring applications and infrastructure across a hybrid environment, particularly those needing tracing, dependency mapping, user monitoring, or log correlation.