Alternatives to Splunk APM

AWS X-Ray

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

Honeycomb

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

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.

AppSignal

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

Apache SkyWalking

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

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

SigNoz

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

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

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

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

Pixie

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

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