Application Performance Monitoring

Alternatives to Uptrace

Uptrace combines traces, metrics, and logs in an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform. UQL covers span and log queries, while a PromQL-compatible engine handles metrics. Dashboards can bring together spans, events, logs, and metrics through the interface or YAML. Metric and error monitors notify teams through email, Slack, PagerDuty, and other channels. It supports API, Linux, macOS, Windows, web, and self-hosted deployments. Uptrace Cloud has a free plan, paid plans from $39 per month, and 28-day default retention, with cold storage options up to 100 weeks.

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
9.1 Visit Specs
02 Chronosphere Application Observability
It suits teams responsible for cloud-native applications and microservices that need service-level views, correlated telemetry, and distributed tracing.

Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
9.0 Visit Specs
03 Middleware
Middleware suits organizations looking for observability across infrastructure, applications, and real-user activity.

From $0.30/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
9.0 Visit Specs
04 AppSignal
AppSignal suits developers and teams that need cloud monitoring across errors, performance, logs, and traces.

From $23.25/mo Free plan Web · API
8.6 Visit Specs
05 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
8.5 Visit Specs
06 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
07 Azure Application Insights
Application Insights suits teams that need telemetry collection, usage analytics, and diagnostics for applications across supported workloads.

Web · Windows · Linux · iOS
8.4 Visit Specs
08 Coralogix APM
From $0.16/mo Free trial Web · API
8.4 Visit Specs
09 Dynatrace Application Monitoring
It suits teams that need visibility across applications, infrastructure and cloud environments, including real-user experience and transaction tracing.

From $58/mo Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
8.4 Visit Specs
10 eG Enterprise
IT operations, architects, SREs, SMEs, DevOps personnel, and developers needing application, infrastructure, and user-experience monitoring.

From $100/mo Free trial Web · Windows · Linux · Self-hosted
8.4 Visit Specs
11 Azure Monitor
Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
8.3 Visit Specs
12 groundcover
It suits teams monitoring production environments that want to collect telemetry without manual instrumentation.

From $30/mo Free plan Web · Linux · Self-hosted
8.3 Visit Specs
13 Dash0
From $0.02/mo Free trial Web · API · Self-hosted
8.2 Visit Specs
14 Blackfire.io
From €33.25/mo Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
8.1 Visit Specs
15 Jaeger
It suits teams operating distributed systems that can deploy and manage self-hosted tracing infrastructure.

Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
8.1 Visit Specs
16 Keymetrics
It suits Node.js teams needing application and server monitoring, debugging, custom metrics, and deployment visibility.

From $79/mo Free plan Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted
8.1 Visit Specs
17 Raygun Application Performance Monitoring
Raygun APM is aimed at customer-centric teams looking to identify performance issues that affect end-user experience.

From $120/mo Free trial Web · Windows · Linux · iOS
8.0 Visit Specs
18 SigNoz
SigNoz suits engineering teams monitoring applications and infrastructure across logs, metrics, traces, and exceptions.

From $19/mo Free plan Web · iOS · Android · API
8.0 Visit Specs
19 Logz.io APM
From $0.16/mo Free trial Web · API
7.9 Visit Specs
20 RoRvsWild
From €400/mo Free trial Web · iOS · Android
7.9 Visit Specs
21 Sematext APM
From $19/mo Free trial Web · Windows · Linux · API
7.9 Visit Specs
22 Skylight
Skylight suits teams maintaining Ruby or Rails applications that need endpoint, query, deployment, and background-job performance analysis.

From $20/mo Free plan Web · macOS · Linux · API
7.8 Visit Specs
23 SolarWinds Observability
From $5/mo Free trial Web · Windows · Linux · API
7.8 Visit Specs
24 Google Cloud Trace
From $0.20/mo Web · Linux · API
7.7 Visit Specs
25 RootCause
From $99/mo Free trial Web · Self-hosted
7.7 Visit Specs
26 Tideways
From $89/mo Free trial Web · macOS · Linux · API
7.7 Visit Specs
27 Grafana Alerting
From $0.03/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
7.4 Visit Specs
28 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 · API
7.4 Visit Specs
29 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 · iOS
7.3 Visit Specs
30 Pointer
Web · API · Self-hosted
7.2 Visit Specs

Choosing instead of Uptrace

Readers may seek a different emphasis: Kubernetes workload drill-downs, network and device monitoring, per-second infrastructure signals, automated root-cause analysis, or a single-container dashboard. Switching also changes deployment, retention, alerting, integrations, and pricing. Some alternatives focus on specialized infrastructure views or container security rather than unified telemetry. Others add broader monitoring coverage, AI-assisted operations, or extensive built-in integrations. Weigh the environments you monitor, the data you need together, where it should run, and which analysis and notification workflows matter before choosing.

Choosing instead of Uptrace

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