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What are Observability Tools?
Observability tools are software platforms that help monitor, measure, and gain insights into the performance and health of systems, applications, and infrastructure. These tools provide a comprehensive view of the system by collecting and analyzing data from various sources, including logs, metrics, traces, and events. Observability tools are essential for identifying and diagnosing issues, improving system reliability, and optimizing performance. They enable real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and alerting, which allows teams to respond proactively to potential problems. By offering detailed insights into system behavior, observability tools are critical for DevOps, cloud-native environments, and microservices architectures. Compare and read user reviews of the best Observability tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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New Relic
New Relic
New Relic empowers enterprises with intelligent observability solutions, providing unmatched visibility across your tech stack. Our AI-driven, unified data platform centralizes telemetry from front-end to infrastructure, enabling real-time insights and proactive issue resolution. With advanced tools like automated alerts, customizable dashboards, and full-stack analysis, New Relic helps you optimize performance, reduce downtime, and deliver superior digital experiences. Simplifying enterprise-scale observability, New Relic turns your system data into a strategic asset, driving operational efficiency and innovation. Start your observability transformation today.Starting Price: Free -
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groundcover
groundcover
Cloud-based observability solution that helps businesses track and manage workload and performance on a unified dashboard. Monitor everything you run in your cloud without compromising on cost, granularity, or scale. groundcover is a full stack cloud-native APM platform designed to make observability effortless so that you can focus on building world-class products. By leveraging our proprietary sensor, groundcover unlocks unprecedented granularity on all your applications, eliminating the need for costly code changes and development cycles to ensure monitoring continuity. 100% visibility, all the time. Cover your entire Kubernetes stack instantly, with no code changes using the superpowers of eBPF instrumentation. Take control of your data, all in-cloud. groundcover’s unique inCloud architecture keeps your data private, secured and under your control without ever leaving your cloud premises.Starting Price: $20/month/node -
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Grafana
Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs provides an open and composable observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Recognized as a 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Observability Platforms and positioned furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision, Grafana Labs supports over 25M users and 5,000+ customers—including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom. The LGTM Stack combines Grafana for visualization, Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for traces. Grafana Cloud, the fully managed offering, accelerates time to value with turnkey solutions for Kubernetes monitoring, incident response, load testing, and more. It features Adaptive Metrics for cost-efficient data aggregation and native OpenTelemetry support. Built on open standards, Grafana empowers teams to visualize and correlate data from any source—without vendor lock-in—whether self-managed or in the cloud. Grafana Cloud scales with you, securely.Starting Price: $0 -
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ManageEngine OpManager
ManageEngine
ManageEngine OpManager serves as an observability solution by offering deep visibility into the health, performance, and availability of IT infrastructure components. While traditionally known for network monitoring, OpManager extends its capabilities to support observability by collecting and analyzing a wide range of performance metrics across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. With real-time dashboards, intelligent alerts, and historical trend analysis, it enables IT teams to detect anomalies, troubleshoot faster, and maintain system reliability. OpManager’s ability to correlate infrastructure data and provide actionable insights makes it a valuable tool for organizations aiming to enhance their observability posture and ensure seamless digital operations.Starting Price: $95.00/one-time -
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NetBrain
NetBrain Technologies
NetBrain helps IT teams halve MTTR and prevent outages with AI-driven automation. Trusted by 2,500+ enterprises worldwide, our no-code, intent-based platform turns manual network operations into intelligent automation, keeping networks running smoothly and efficiently. Top use cases: - Automated Troubleshooting - Automated Change Management - Network AIOps - Network Assessment - Network Visibility - Network Observability - Network Security -
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Sematext Cloud
Sematext Group
Sematext Cloud is an innovative, unified platform with all-in-one solution for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real user monitoring, and synthetic monitoring to provide unified, real-time observability of your entire technology stack. It's used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, with the goal of driving collaboration between engineering and business teams, reducing the time of root-cause analysis, understanding user behaviour and tracking key business metrics. The main capabilities range from log monitoring to APM, server monitoring, database monitoring, network monitoring, uptime monitoring, website monitoring or container monitoring Find complete details on our website. Or better: start a free demo, no email address required.Starting Price: $0 -
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GitLab
GitLab
GitLab is a complete DevOps platform. With GitLab, you get a complete CI/CD toolchain out-of-the-box. One interface. One conversation. One permission model. GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. GitLab helps teams accelerate software delivery from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs, and reduce the risk of application vulnerabilities while increasing developer productivity. Source code management enables coordination, sharing and collaboration across the entire software development team. Track and merge branches, audit changes and enable concurrent work, to accelerate software delivery. Review code, discuss changes, share knowledge, and identify defects in code among distributed teams via asynchronous review and commenting. Automate, track and report code reviews.Starting Price: $29 per user per month -
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eG Enterprise
eG Innovations
IT performance monitoring is not about monitoring CPU, memory and network resources any more. eG Enterprise makes user experience the centerpiece of your IT monitoring and management strategy. With eG Enterprise, you can measure the digital experience of your users, get deep visibility into the performance the entire application delivery stack — from code to user experience, and data center to cloud — from a single pane of glass, correlate performance across domains and pinpoint the root-cause of problems proactively. Machine learning and analytics capabilities embedded in eG Enterprise enable IT teams make intelligent decisions regarding right-sizing, optimization and planning for future growth. The result: happy users, enhanced productivity, improved IT efficiency and tangible business ROI. eG Enterprise is available for installation on-premise and as a SaaS solution. Start a free trial today.Starting Price: $1,000 per month -
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Portainer Business
Portainer
Portainer is an intuitive container management platform for Docker, Kubernetes, and Edge-based environments. With a smart UI, Portainer enables you to build, deploy, manage, and secure your containerized environments with ease. It makes container adoption easier for the whole team and reduces time-to-value on Kubernetes and Docker/Swarm. With a simple GUI and a comprehensive API, the product makes it easy for engineers to deploy and manage container-based apps, triage issues, automate CI/CD workflows and set up CaaS (container-as-a-service) environments regardless of hosting environment or K8s distro. Portainer Business is designed to be used in a team environment with multiple users and clusters. The product includes a range of security features, including RBAC, OAuth integration, and logging - making it suitable for use in complex production environments. Portainer also allows you to set up GitOps automation for deployment of your apps to Docker and K8s based on Git repos.Starting Price: Free -
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Auvik
Auvik Networks
Auvik's cloud-based network monitroing and management software gives you instant insight into the networks you manage, and automates complex and time-consuming network tasks. You get complete network visibility and control. Real-time network mapping & inventory means you'll always know exactly whats where, even as your users move. Automated config backup & restore on network devices means you'll mitigate network risk with no manual effort. And deep network traffic insights is a game changer. Whether you are a corporate IT professional or a Managed Service Provider, Auvik has a simple, out of the box solution for you and your team that only take minutes to deploy. -
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Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic offers a cloud solution for log management and metrics monitoring for IT and security teams of organizations of all sizes. Faster troubleshooting with integrated logs, metrics and traces. One platform. Many use cases. Increase your troubleshooting effectiveness. Sumo Logic helps you reduce downtime and move from reactive to proactive monitoring with cloud-based modern analytics powered by machine learning. Quickly detect Indicators of Compromise (IoCs), accelerate investigation, and ensure compliance using Sumo Logic Security Analytics. Enable data-driven business decisions and predict and analyze customer behavior using Sumo Logic’s real-time analytics platform. The Sumo Logic platform helps you make data-driven decisions and reduce the time to investigate security and operational issues so you can free up resources for more important activities.Starting Price: $270.00 per month -
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Splunk AppDynamics
Cisco
Splunk AppDynamics delivers full-stack observability for hybrid and on-prem environments, linking technical performance directly to business outcomes. It enables teams to detect anomalies, diagnose root causes, and prioritize issues based on their real business impact. With capabilities ranging from network performance correlation to SAP system optimization, the platform offers deep insights across applications, APIs, and infrastructure. Its runtime security features safeguard applications by detecting vulnerabilities, blocking attacks, and highlighting potential risks. AppDynamics also enhances digital experiences with web, mobile, and synthetic monitoring to understand user journeys. By unifying performance, security, and business analytics, Splunk AppDynamics helps enterprises reduce costs, prevent outages, and deliver seamless customer experiences.Starting Price: $6 per month -
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Netreo
Netreo
Netreo is the most comprehensive full stack IT infrastructure management and observability platform. We provide a single source of truth for proactive performance and availability monitoring for large enterprise networks, infrastructure, applications and business services. Our solution is used by: - IT Executives to have full visibility from the business service right down into the infrastructure and network that supports it. - IT Engineering departments as a decision support system for capacity planning, and architecting modern solutions. - IT Operations teams for real time visibility into what is failing in their environment, what bottlenecks exist and who it is affecting. We provide all of these insights for systems and vendor mixes in large heterogeneous and constantly evolving environments. We have an extensive and growing list of supported vendors (over 350 integrations) including network vendors, servers, storage, virtualization, cloud platforms and others.Starting Price: $5/resource/mo -
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Langfuse
Langfuse
Langfuse is an open source LLM engineering platform to help teams collaboratively debug, analyze and iterate on their LLM Applications. Observability: Instrument your app and start ingesting traces to Langfuse Langfuse UI: Inspect and debug complex logs and user sessions Prompts: Manage, version and deploy prompts from within Langfuse Analytics: Track metrics (LLM cost, latency, quality) and gain insights from dashboards & data exports Evals: Collect and calculate scores for your LLM completions Experiments: Track and test app behavior before deploying a new version Why Langfuse? - Open source - Model and framework agnostic - Built for production - Incrementally adoptable - start with a single LLM call or integration, then expand to full tracing of complex chains/agents - Use GET API to build downstream use cases and export dataStarting Price: $29/month -
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VirtualMetric
VirtualMetric
VirtualMetric is a powerful telemetry pipeline solution designed to enhance data collection, processing, and security monitoring across enterprise environments. Its core offering, DataStream, automatically collects and transforms security logs from a wide range of systems such as Windows, Linux, MacOS, and Unix, enriching data for further analysis. By reducing data volume and filtering out non-meaningful logs, VirtualMetric helps businesses lower SIEM ingestion costs, increase operational efficiency, and improve threat detection accuracy. The platform’s scalable architecture, with features like zero data loss and long-term compliance storage, ensures that businesses can maintain high security standards while optimizing performance.Starting Price: Free -
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Logit.io
Logit.io
Logit.io are a centralized logging and metrics management platform that serves hundreds of customers around the world, solving complex problems for FTSE 100, Fortune 500 and fast-growing organizations alike. The Logit.io platform delivers you with a fully customized log and metrics solution based on ELK, Grafana & Open Distro that is scalable, secure and compliant. Using the Logit.io platform simplifies logging and metrics, so that your team gains the insights to deliver the best experience for your customers. Logit.io enables you to monitor and troubleshoot your applications and infrastructure in real-time and enhance your organization's security and compliance. Allow your team to focus on what's important to them, instead of hosting, configuration and upgrading separate open source solutions. Sending your data to the platform is easy, simply use our preconfigured sources to automate the collection of your logs and metrics.Starting Price: From $0.74 per GB per day -
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InfluxDB
InfluxData
InfluxDB is a purpose-built data platform designed to handle all time series data, from users, sensors, applications and infrastructure — seamlessly collecting, storing, visualizing, and turning insight into action. With a library of more than 250 open source Telegraf plugins, importing and monitoring data from any system is easy. InfluxDB empowers developers to build transformative IoT, monitoring and analytics services and applications. InfluxDB’s flexible architecture fits any implementation — whether in the cloud, at the edge or on-premises — and its versatility, accessibility and supporting tools (client libraries, APIs, etc.) make it easy for developers at any level to quickly build applications and services with time series data. Optimized for developer efficiency and productivity, the InfluxDB platform gives builders time to focus on the features and functionalities that give their internal projects value and their applications a competitive edge.Starting Price: $0 -
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Cribl Stream
Cribl
Cribl Stream allows you to implement an observability pipeline which helps you parse, restructure, and enrich data in flight - before you pay to analyze it. Get the right data, where you want, in the formats you need. Route data to the best tool for the job - or all the tools for the job - by translating and formatting data into any tooling schema you require. Let different departments choose different analytics environments without having to deploy new agents or forwarders. As much as 50% of log and metric data goes unused – null fields, duplicate data, and fields that offer zero analytical value. With Cribl Stream, you can trim wasted data streams and analyze only what you need. Cribl Stream is the best way to get multiple data formats into the tools you trust for your Security and IT efforts. Use the Cribl Stream universal receiver to collect from any machine data source - and even to schedule batch collection from REST APIs, Kinesis Firehose, Raw HTTP, and Microsoft Office 365 APIsStarting Price: Free (1TB / Day) -
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Observe
Observe
Observe – the AI-powered observability company – is reinventing how businesses detect anomalies, troubleshoot applications, and resolve incidents to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Only Observe eliminates silos of logs, metrics, and traces by storing all data in a single, cost-efficient data lake, analyzing all telemetry data using a single language, and providing access through a single, consistent, user interface. Observe’s AI-Powered Observability enables companies to resolve software incidents three times faster at one-third the cost. Customers such as Capital One, Dialpad AI, Top Golf and more trust Observe to turn their data into actionable insights.Starting Price: $0.35 Per GiB -
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Edge Delta
Edge Delta
Edge Delta is a new way to do observability that helps developers and operations teams monitor datasets and create telemetry pipelines. We process your log data as it's created and give you the freedom to route it anywhere. Our primary differentiator is our distributed architecture. We are the only observability provider that pushes data processing upstream to the infrastructure level, enabling users to process their logs and metrics as soon as they’re created at the source. We combine our distributed approach with a column-oriented backend to help users store and analyze massive data volumes without impacting performance or cost. By using Edge Delta, customers can reduce observability costs without sacrificing visibility. Additionally, they can surface insights and trigger alerts before data leaves their environment.Starting Price: $0.20 per GB -
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Logz.io
Logz.io
We know engineers love open source. So we supercharged the best open source monitoring tools — including ELK, Prometheus, and Jaeger, and unified them on a scalable SaaS platform. Collect and analyze your logs, metrics, and traces on one unified platform for end-to-end monitoring. Visualize your data on easy-to-use and customizable monitoring dashboards. Logz.io’s human-coached AI/ML automatically uncovers errors and exceptions in your logs. Quickly respond to new events with alerting to Slack, PagerDuty, Gmail, and other endpoints. Centralize your metrics at any scale on Prometheus-as-a-service. Unified with logs and traces. Add just three lines of code to your Prometheus config files to begin forwarding your metrics to Logz.io for storage and analysis. Quickly respond to new events by alerting Slack, PagerDuty, Gmail, and other endpoints. Logz.io’s human-coached AI/ML automatically uncovers errors and exceptions in your logs.Starting Price: $89 per month -
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You’ve embraced cloud architecture. But its complexity is difficult to monitor. The IBM Cloud Monitoring service is a fully managed monitoring service for administrators, DevOps teams and developers. Expect deep container visibility and comprehensive metrics. Reduce cost as you free up DevOps and better manage the software lifecycle. Configure a cluster to forward metrics to the IBM Cloud Monitoring service in the IBM Cloud. Increase productivity of administrators, DevOps teams and devs. Get notifications about metrics and events. Use dashboards to help you see the health of your environment. Discover apps, containers, hosts and networks dynamically. Display content and control access on a per-user, per-team basis. Configure an Ubuntu host to forward metrics to the IBM Cloud Monitoring service in the IBM Cloud. Cloud monitoring and troubleshooting for infrastructure, cloud services and applications.Starting Price: $37 per month
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Elastic Observability
Elastic
Rely on the most widely deployed observability platform available, built on the proven Elastic Stack (also known as the ELK Stack) to converge silos, delivering unified visibility and actionable insights. To effectively monitor and gain insights across your distributed systems, you need to have all your observability data in one stack. Break down silos by bringing together the application, infrastructure, and user data into a unified solution for end-to-end observability and alerting. Combine limitless telemetry data collection and search-powered problem resolution in a unified solution for optimal operational and business results. Converge data silos by ingesting all your telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) from any source in an open, extensible, and scalable platform. Accelerate problem resolution with automatic anomaly detection powered by machine learning and rich data analytics.Starting Price: $16 per month -
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OpsCruise
OpsCruise
Your newer cloud-native apps have an order of magnitude more dependencies, ephemerality, releases, and telemetry. Proprietary monitoring and APM tools were born in the era of monolithic apps and static infrastructure. They are expensive, intrusive, siloed, and generate more noise than they’re worth. Open source and cloud monitoring tools offer an excellent foundation but require highly skilled engineers to integrate, maintain and analyze the data they surface. Your journey to modern infrastructure is stretching the limits of your monitoring framework. It’s time for a fresh approach. It’s time for OpsCruise! Our platform’s deep understanding of Kubernetes, coupled with our unique ML-based behavior profiling empowers your entire team to predict performance degradations and instantly surface their cause. All at a third of the cost of the current monitoring stack and without the need to instrument code, deploy agents, or maintain open-source tools.Starting Price: Free -
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SigNoz
SigNoz
SigNoz is an open source Datadog or New Relic alternative. A single tool for all your observability needs, APM, logs, metrics, exceptions, alerts, and dashboards powered by a powerful query builder. You don’t need to manage multiple tools for traces, metrics, and logs. Get great out-of-the-box charts and a powerful query builder to dig deeper into your data. Using an open source standard frees you from vendor lock-in. Use auto-instrumentation libraries of OpenTelemetry to get started with little to no code change. OpenTelemetry is a one-stop solution for all your telemetry needs. A single standard for all telemetry signals means increased developer productivity and consistency across teams. Write queries on all telemetry signals. Run aggregates, and apply filters and formulas to get deeper insights from your data. SigNoz uses ClickHouse, a fast open source distributed columnar database. Ingestion and aggregations are lightning-fast.Starting Price: $199 per month -
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Elastiflow
Elastiflow
The most complete network observability solution for use with modern data platforms, providing unprecedented insights at any scale. ElastiFlow allows organizations to achieve unprecedented levels of network performance, availability, and security. ElastiFlow provides granular information about network traffic flows, including source and destination IP addresses, ports, protocols, and the amount of data transmitted. This information allows network administrators to gain deep insights into the network's performance and identify potential issues. ElastiFlow is highly valuable for diagnosing and troubleshooting network issues such as congestion, high latency, or packet loss. By analyzing the network traffic, administrators can pinpoint the cause of the problem and take appropriate action to resolve it. By leveraging ElastiFlow, organizations can improve their security posture, detect and respond to threats more effectively, and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements.Starting Price: Free -
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Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon
Increase operational excellence by using a popular open source solution, managed by AWS. Audit and secure your data with a data center and network architecture with built-in certifications. Systematically detect potential threats and react to a system’s state through machine learning, alerting, and visualization. Optimize time and resources for strategic work. Securely unlock real-time search, monitoring, and analysis of business and operational data. Amazon OpenSearch Service makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more. OpenSearch is an open source, distributed search and analytics suite derived from Elasticsearch. Amazon OpenSearch Service offers the latest versions of OpenSearch, support for 19 versions of Elasticsearch (1.5 to 7.10 versions), as well as visualization capabilities powered by OpenSearch dashboards and Kibana.Starting Price: $0.036 per hour -
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VictoriaMetrics Enterprise
VictoriaMetrics
VictoriaMetrics Enterprise is a commercial solution designed by the creators of VictoriaMetrics for complex monitoring and observability setups. It's ideal for organizations with mission-critical, large, or rapidly scaling monitoring environments. The Enterprise version includes all the features of the community edition plus additional enhancements such as Downsampling Automated Backups / Backup Manager Data Retention per Label/Tenant Multi-Tenant Statistic & Rate Limiting Anomaly Detection. It offers stable releases with long-term support, ensuring critical bug fixes and security patches. Enterprise security compliance and prioritized feature requests are also part of the package. We help you to reduce storage costs and boost performance for historical data queries. Multiple retentions allow different storage durations for various datasets. Automatic discovery of storage nodes updates the list at insert and vmselect without restarting services.Starting Price: $0 -
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Langtrace
Langtrace
Langtrace is an open source observability tool that collects and analyzes traces and metrics to help you improve your LLM apps. Langtrace ensures the highest level of security. Our cloud platform is SOC 2 Type II certified, ensuring top-tier protection for your data. Supports popular LLMs, frameworks, and vector databases. Langtrace can be self-hosted and supports OpenTelemetry standard traces, which can be ingested by any observability tool of your choice, resulting in no vendor lock-in. Get visibility and insights into your entire ML pipeline, whether it is a RAG or a fine-tuned model with traces and logs that cut across the framework, vectorDB, and LLM requests. Annotate and create golden datasets with traced LLM interactions, and use them to continuously test and enhance your AI applications. Langtrace includes built-in heuristic, statistical, and model-based evaluations to support this process.Starting Price: Free -
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Aspecto
Aspecto
Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and errors within your microservices. Correlate root causes across traces, logs, and metrics. Cut your OpenTelemetry traces cost with Aspecto built-in remote sampling. How OTel data is visualized impacts your troubleshooting abilities. Go from a high-level overview to the very last detail with best-in-class visualization. Correlate logs and traces. From logs to their matched traces and back with one click. Never lose context and resolve issues faster. Use filters, free-text search, and groups to search your trace data and quickly pinpoint where in your system the problem is occurring. Cut your costs by sampling only the data you need. Sample traces based on languages, libraries, routes, and errors. Set data privacy rules to hide sensitive fields within trace data, specific routes, or anywhere else. Connect your day-to-day tools with your workflow. Logs, error monitoring, external events API, and more.Starting Price: $40 per month
