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Alternatives to Jaeger

The tools Specifiction weighs against Jaeger, from its list of distributed tracing tools, each with its plans, platforms and spec score.

  1. 01 Grafana Cloud Application Observability

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

    From $0.03/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    9.2 Visit Specs
  2. 02 AWS X-Ray

    X-Ray suits teams that need request tracing across application services and AWS resources.

    Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    9.0 Visit Specs
  3. 03 Honeycomb

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

    From $150/mo Free plan Web · iOS · Android · API
    8.6 Visit Specs
  4. 04 Hypertrace
    Free plan Web · Windows · Linux · Self-hosted
    8.6 Visit Specs
  5. 05 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.

    From $39/mo Free plan Open source Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    8.6 Visit Specs
  6. 06 AppSignal

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

    From $23.25/mo Free plan Web · API
    8.5 Visit Specs
  7. 07 Apache SkyWalking

    SkyWalking suits teams that want a self-hosted view of cloud-native services and AI workload telemetry.

    Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    8.4 Visit Specs
  8. 08 Tencent Cloud Application Performance Management

    It suits teams diagnosing performance and errors across microservices and other application architectures.

    Free trial Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted
    8.4 Visit Specs
  9. 09 Pinpoint
    Free plan Web · Windows · Self-hosted
    8.2 Visit Specs
  10. 10 SigNoz

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

    From $19/mo Free plan Web · iOS · Android · API
    8.1 Visit Specs
  11. 11 Baselime
    Free plan Web · API
    7.9 Visit Specs
  12. 12 SolarWinds Observability
    From $5/mo Free trial Web · Windows · Linux · API
    7.9 Visit Specs
  13. 13 Google Cloud Trace
    From $0.20/mo Web · Linux · API
    7.8 Visit Specs
  14. 14 Grafana Cloud Traces
    Free plan Web · API
    7.8 Visit Specs
  15. 15 Hubble
    Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    7.8 Visit Specs
  16. 16 Tracekit
    From $24/mo Free plan Web · API
    7.8 Visit Specs
  17. 17 Tracetest

    It is aimed at developers and QA engineers building distributed microservice systems, including teams using Go, Rust, Node.js, or Python.

    Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    7.8 Visit Specs
  18. 18 Sematext Tracing

    It suits teams monitoring instrumented microservices that want trace search, service maps, and latency or error alerts.

    Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    7.7 Visit Specs
  19. 19 DataBuff
    Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.6 Visit Specs
  20. 20 Pixie

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

    Free plan Web · Linux · Self-hosted
    7.6 Visit Specs
  21. 21 Sentry Performance

    Sentry Performance suits developer-focused teams diagnosing application slowdowns or tracing latency and errors across services.

    Free plan Web · iOS · Android · API
    7.6 Visit Specs
  22. 22 Grafana Alerting
    From $0.03/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    7.5 Visit Specs
  23. 23 OpenZipkin
    Free plan Web · Self-hosted
    7.4 Visit Specs
  24. 24 Alibaba Cloud Managed Service for OpenTelemetry
    From $0.06/mo Web
    7.0 Visit Specs
  25. 25 Elastic APM
    From $99/mo Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    7.0 Visit Specs
  26. 26 IBM Instana Observability
    From $0.03/mo Free plan Web · Linux
    7.0 Visit Specs
  27. 27 Grafana Tempo
    Linux
    5.8 Visit Specs
  28. 28 Huawei Cloud Application Performance Management
    Web
    5.6 Visit Specs
  29. 29 Oracle Cloud Observability and Management Platform
    Web
    5.6 Visit Specs
  30. 30 Splunk APM
    Web
    5.3 Visit Specs

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