Datadog AlternativesTop Network Monitors and other similar apps like Datadog

One of the most popular alternatives to Datadog is Grafana, which is open source with a free version. Other popular alternatives are Zabbix, TrafficMonitor, Netdata and Beszel. Network Monitors like Datadog are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for the web, Linux, Windows, Mac and self-hosting.

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  1. Better Stack icon
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    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.

    More about Better Stack on AlternativeTo307 Better Stack alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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

    87 Grafana alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
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  3. Zabbix icon
     202 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.

    134 Zabbix alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
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  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.

    60 TrafficMonitor alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  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.

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

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

    23 Beszel alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Cloudron
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  7. Nagios icon
     92 likes

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

    154 Nagios alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  8. Kibana icon
     36 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.

    50 Kibana alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Online
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    • European Union flagEU
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  9. Wazuh icon
     25 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.

    36 Wazuh alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. 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.

    56 NetWorx alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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  11. Graylog icon
     45 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.

    77 Graylog alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. Prometheus icon
     44 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.

    82 Prometheus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cloudron
    • Docker Hub
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  13. 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.

    111 Splunk alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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