Coroot vs Maintenant

Coroot is an open-source observability platform that uses eBPF to collect metrics, logs, traces, and profiling data without code changes. It maps services and dependencies, and pairs eBPF auto-instrumentation with OpenTelemetry SDK traces for end-to-end request tracking. Continuous profiling can locate CPU spikes down to the line of code. Coroot tracks cloud costs without access to cloud accounts and detects risks such as single-instance applications, unreplicated databases, poor replica placement, and publicly exposed services. Its AI root cause analysis correlates metrics, logs, traces, events, and profiles to identify likely incident causes, with evidence and suggested fixes. Notifications can be sent through Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, and webhooks. Coroot supports Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Docker Swarm, several listed Linux distributions, and Windows agents. Linux use requires kernel version 5.1 or later. The platform is self-hosted, keeping data within the customer's infrastructure. Community Edition is Apache 2.0 licensed and can run on premises or in a customer's cloud. The free Community Edition includes core features. Standard support is by email, chat, or ticket during business hours, while Premium includes 24×7 and phone support.

Maintenant is a self-hosted, single-container dashboard for monitoring Docker and Kubernetes infrastructure. It tracks containers, HTTP and TCP endpoints, cron heartbeats, TLS certificates, and CPU, memory, network, and disk metrics. It can discover containers automatically, monitor health and restart loops, and stream logs. Update Intelligence checks OCI registries for image digest changes, while security insights identify exposed ports and risky configurations. The software uses SQLite by default, can be configured to use PostgreSQL, and does not require a separate datastore service. A REST API, real-time SSE streams, and an MCP server connect it to other systems and AI assistants. Community includes webhook and Discord alerts; paid editions add email and Telegram, and Pro adds Slack, Teams, and escalation policies. Community is free forever. Personal costs €149, paid once, including one year of updates; further updates cost 59 € incl. VAT per year. Pro costs €29 a month excluding VAT, or 290 € excluding VAT per year. There is no built-in authentication, so the dashboard and admin API need protection through a reverse proxy and authentication middleware.