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 Grafana, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Datadog are Zabbix, TrafficMonitor, Beszel and Netdata.

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  1. Better Stack icon
    Sponsored

    AI-driven SRE platform offering real-time infrastructure monitoring, incident management, log analytics, traces, error tracking, metrics, real user monitoring, status pages, and a warehouse, with full data ingestion, centralized dashboard, custom alerts, and reduced costs.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
  2. Grafana icon
     120 likes

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

    82 Grafana alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Node.JS
     
  3. Zabbix icon
     201 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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    Zabbix vs Datadog Comments
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    Negative
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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.

    • Zabbix is Free and Open SourceDatadog is Paid and Proprietary
    • Zabbix is Privacy focusedDatadog is not according to our users
  4. TrafficMonitor icon
     66 likes

    Shows real-time network speed, CPU, and memory usage on Windows via a floating window or taskbar widget. Features customizable skins, historical traffic stats, resource monitoring, and lightweight operation for home or advanced users. Free and open-source.

    57 TrafficMonitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Netdata icon
     69 likes

    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.

    66 Netdata alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • C (programming language)
    • Python
    • GNU Bourne Again SHell
     
  6. Prometheus icon
     43 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cloudron
    • Docker Hub
     
  7. Kibana icon
     35 likes

    Open-source interface for real-time visualization, search, monitoring logs or metrics, anomaly detection, and natural language queries in Elasticsearch, supporting machine learning, automated alerting, threat detection, and integration with tools like Slack and ServiceNow.

    47 Kibana alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  8. Nagios icon
     92 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. Graylog icon
     44 likes

    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.

    73 Graylog alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. Wazuh icon
     24 likes

    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.

    32 Wazuh alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. NetWorx icon
     172 likes

    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.

    53 NetWorx alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    NetWorx vs Datadog Comments
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    Negative
    0

    Networkx looks like it's for wifi monitoring. Datadog is general purpose data collection.

    • NetWorx is Paid and ProprietaryDatadog is also Paid and Proprietary
    • NetWorx is LightweightDatadog is not according to our users
  12. Splunk icon
     28 likes

    Splunk is software that provides unique visibility across your entire IT infrastructure from one place in real time. Only Splunk enables you to search, report, monitor and analyze streaming and historical data from any source.

    105 Splunk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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