Monitoring Observability
Alternatives to OpenZipkin
The tools Specifiction weighs against OpenZipkin, from its list of monitoring observability, each with its plans, platforms and spec score.
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Checkmk Checkmk suits teams monitoring infrastructure across cloud, hybrid, and data center environments, including servers, networks, and containers.
From $275/mo Free plan Open source Web · Windows · macOS · Linux9.4 Visit Specs - 02 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 · Linux9.2 Visit Specs - 03
Nagios XI Nagios XI suits teams that want to host monitoring on their own Linux infrastructure and need configurable checks, notifications and access controls.
Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux9.0 Visit Specs - 04 Axiom Free plan Web · API8.9 Visit Specs
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Better Stack It suits teams coordinating incident response, on-call coverage, uptime checks, and telemetry.
From $29/mo Free plan Web · iOS · Android · API8.7 Visit Specs - 06
AppSignal AppSignal suits developers and teams that need cloud monitoring across errors, performance, logs, and traces.
From $23.25/mo Free plan Web · API8.6 Visit Specs - 07
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 · API8.6 Visit Specs - 08
Icinga Icinga suits teams of any size that need self-hosted infrastructure monitoring, from small setups to large distributed environments.
From $166.67/mo Free plan Web · Windows · Linux · API8.5 Visit Specs - 09 Chronosphere Observability Platform Free trial Web · API8.3 Visit Specs
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groundcover It suits teams monitoring production environments that want to collect telemetry without manual instrumentation.
From $30/mo Free plan Web · Linux · Self-hosted8.3 Visit Specs - 11
Elastic Observability Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.2 Visit Specs - 12 Jaeger
It suits teams operating distributed systems that can deploy and manage self-hosted tracing infrastructure.
Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.1 Visit Specs - 13
VictoriaMetrics It suits teams that need metrics monitoring and storage, or organizations building observability across metrics, logs, and traces.
From $200/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.1 Visit Specs - 14
SigNoz SigNoz suits engineering teams monitoring applications and infrastructure across logs, metrics, traces, and exceptions.
From $19/mo Free plan Web · iOS · Android · API8.0 Visit Specs - 15
SolarWinds Observability From $5/mo Free trial Web · Windows · Linux · API7.8 Visit Specs - 16
Observe Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux7.7 Visit Specs - 17
Prometheus It suits teams that need open-source metrics collection, querying and alerting, including self-hosted deployments.
Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux7.7 Visit Specs - 18
Scout APM It suits engineering teams monitoring supported application languages and wanting combined observability data, anomaly alerts, and query analysis.
From $10/mo Free trial Web · API7.5 Visit Specs - 19
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.
From $32.92/mo Free plan Web · Windows · Linux · iOS7.3 Visit Specs - 20
Zabbix Zabbix suits organizations monitoring infrastructure, applications, networks or services across varied data sources.
Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux7.3 Visit Specs - 21
New Relic Session Replay This suits teams needing session replay alongside metrics, logs, traces, events, distributed tracing, synthetic monitoring, or log search.
From $10/mo Free plan Web · iOS · Android7.2 Visit Specs - 22 IBM Instana Observability From $0.03/mo Free plan Web · Linux7.1 Visit Specs
- 23 Datadog Product Analytics From $0.80/mo Web · iOS · Android7.0 Visit Specs
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Dynatrace Infrastructure Monitoring From $7/mo Web · Windows · Linux7.0 Visit Specs - 25 Coralogix SIEM From $0.42/mo Web6.7 Visit Specs
- 26 Splunk Observability Cloud From $15/mo Free plan Web6.7 Visit Specs
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Sematext Logs Web6.4 Visit Specs - 28 Logz.io Kubernetes Monitoring Web5.7 Visit Specs
- 29 Sentry Session Replay Web · iOS · Android5.5 Visit Specs
OpenZipkin, head to head
- OpenZipkin vs Checkmk
- OpenZipkin vs Grafana Cloud Application Observability
- OpenZipkin vs Nagios XI
- OpenZipkin vs Axiom
- OpenZipkin vs Better Stack
- OpenZipkin vs AppSignal
- OpenZipkin vs Honeycomb
- OpenZipkin vs Icinga
- OpenZipkin vs Chronosphere Observability Platform
- OpenZipkin vs groundcover
- OpenZipkin vs Elastic Observability
- OpenZipkin vs Jaeger