Datadog Alternatives

Generous free quota.

Application performance monitoring.

Free uptime monitoring with 100GB logs —€” saves $20/mo over Datadog

Uptime monitoring, log management, and status pages with generous free tier.

Free starter plan.

Uptime, logs, and error monitoring.

20% off annual plan —€” saves $60+/year on Playwright-based monitoring

Synthetic monitoring for APIs and browser apps. Uptime checks, Playwright-based browser checks, and alerting.

10K metric series + 50GB logs + 50GB traces free —€” full-stack observability at zero cost

Full-stack observability platform with Grafana dashboards. Free tier includes 10,000 active series metrics (14-day retention), 50 GB logs, 50 GB traces (7-day retention), and 3 team members. Built-in alerting, on-call management, and incident response. No credit card required.

Free plan available.

Observability for engineering teams.

Free daily volume.

Log management for developers.

100GB free + 5 users on full-stack observability —€” APM, logs, traces, and AI-powered insights for startups

New Relic startup program provides 100GB of data ingestion free, 5 full-platform users, APM, infrastructure monitoring, logs, and traces. Full-stack observability platform with AI-powered error grouping and incident intelligence.

Free for 5 users -- incident alerting and on-call scheduling for dev teams

Incident management and alerting platform. Free tier includes 5 users, basic alert scheduling, and 2 notification channels.

Free self-hosted and cloud.

Product analytics and session replay.