The Best Datadog AlternativesTop Network Monitors and other similar apps like Datadog

Datadog is described as 'Monitor IT and DevOps environments with over 120 integrations, providing a unified view of your infrastructure with graphing, correlation, and analytics' and is a popular Network Monitor in the network & admin category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Datadog for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Linux, Windows, Mac and SaaS apps. The best Datadog alternative is Better Stack Telemetry. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Grafana or Zabbix. Other great apps like Datadog are TrafficMonitor, Netdata, Prometheus and Nagios.

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  1. Better Stack Telemetry icon

    Better Stack Telemetry

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    Transform your stack's logs into structured data with real-time processing of up to 1 billion logs per second. Enjoy fast search with SQL support, customizable retention, alerts for anomalies, and collaborative dashboards to streamline debugging and incident resolution.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • Almost everyone thinks Better Stack Telemetry is a great Datadog alternative.

    • Better Stack Telemetry is the most popular SaaS alternative to Datadog.

    • Better Stack Telemetry is the most popular commercial alternative to Datadog.

    • Better Stack Telemetry is Paid and ProprietaryDatadog is also Paid and Proprietary
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    Grafana

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    Grafana provides a powerful and elegant way to create, explore, and share dashboards and data with your team and the world.

    64 Grafana alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Node.JS
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    • Almost everyone thinks Grafana is a great Datadog alternative.

    • Grafana is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Datadog.

    • Grafana is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Datadog.

    • Grafana is Freemium and Open SourceDatadog is Paid and Proprietary
    • Grafana is Privacy focusedDatadog is not according to our users
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    Zabbix

     200 likes
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    Gather and analyze accurate statistics and performance metrics, visualize it, get notified about current and potential issues without delay, and take advantage of our time-tested professional development and support.

    119 Zabbix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
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    Comments about Zabbix as an Alternative to Datadog
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    Zabbix does not work off of the StatsD / Graphite basis, requires an agent on each monitored instance (instead of sending simple updates via UDP, or HTTP), Zabbix cannot adapt to dynamic infrastructure environments.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think Zabbix is a great Datadog alternative.

    • Zabbix is Free and Open SourceDatadog is Paid and Proprietary
    • Zabbix is Privacy focusedDatadog is not according to our users
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    Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

    Comprehensive monitoring solution with over 200 sensor types, user-friendly interface, and powerful capabilities such as traffic analysis, failover clustering, and remote probes. Offers email and SMS alerts, supports SNMP and WMI...

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    TrafficMonitor

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    TrafficMonitor is a network monitoring suspension window software in Windows. It can display the current network speed, CPU and memory usage. It also support the functions of display in the taskbar, change skin and historical traffic statistics.

    55 TrafficMonitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Netdata

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    Netdata collects metrics per second and presents them in beautiful low-latency dashboards. It is designed to run on all of your physical and virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters, and edge/IoT devices, to monitor your systems, containers, and applications.

    48 Netdata alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • C (programming language)
    • Python
    • GNU Bourne Again SHell
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    • Netdata is the most popular Web-based alternative to Datadog.

    • Netdata is Freemium and ProprietaryDatadog is Paid and Proprietary
    • Netdata is Lightweight and Privacy focusedDatadog is not according to our users
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    Prometheus

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    Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community.

    70 Prometheus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cloudron
    • Docker Hub
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  10. Nagios icon

    Nagios

     91 likes
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    Nagios is a powerful monitoring system licensed under Nagios Enterprises that helps organizations identify and resolve IT infrastructure issues.

    135 Nagios alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Home
     
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    Kibana

     34 likes
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    Easily visualize data pushed into Elasticsearch from Logstash, es-hadoop or 3rd party technologies like Apache Flume, Fluentd, and many others.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    Graylog

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    Graylog is a powerful Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution offering a robust log analytics platform that simplifies the collection, search, analysis, and alerting of all types of machine-generated data.

    65 Graylog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Beszel

     6 likes
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    Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform that includes Docker statistics, historical data, and alert functions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Cloudron
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    Wazuh

     22 likes
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    Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. It is capable of protecting workloads across on-premises, virtualized, containerized, and cloud-based environments.

    25 Wazuh alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    Website
     
  15. NetWorx icon

    NetWorx

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    NetWorx is a simple, yet versatile and powerful tool that helps you objectively evaluate your bandwidth consumption situation. You can use it to collect bandwidth usage data and measure the speed of your Internet or any other network connections.

    51 NetWorx alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    Comments about NetWorx as an Alternative to Datadog
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    Networkx looks like it's for wifi monitoring. Datadog is general purpose data collection.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • This alternative is disputed. NetWorx is a legitimate Datadog alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • NetWorx is Paid and ProprietaryDatadog is also Paid and Proprietary
    • NetWorx is LightweightDatadog is not according to our users
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