PagerDuty Alternatives
Looking for PagerDuty alternatives? We ranked 10 verified Monitoring options developers actually ship with — free tiers, startup credits, and pricing that won't surprise you at renewal.
Better Stack
MonitoringFree uptime monitoring with 100GB logs — saves $20/mo over Datadog
Uptime monitoring, log management, and status pages with generous free tier.
Checkly
Monitoring20% 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.
Datadog
Monitoring$100 credits + 14-day trial — test full APM suite for free
Monitor infrastructure, logs, and applications with 14-day free trial.
Grafana Cloud Free
Monitoring10K 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.
New Relic for Startups
Monitoring100GB 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.