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

The best open source alternative to Datadog is Grafana. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Datadog and loads of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Datadog are Zabbix, TrafficMonitor, Prometheus and Nagios.

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  1. 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.

    65 Grafana alternatives

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Node.JS
     
  2. Zabbix icon
     200 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.

    119 Zabbix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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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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    • Zabbix is Free and Open SourceDatadog is Paid and Proprietary
    • Zabbix is Privacy focusedDatadog is not according to our users
  3. TrafficMonitor icon
     63 likes

    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.

    56 TrafficMonitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Prometheus icon
     40 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.

    72 Prometheus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cloudron
    • Docker Hub
     
  5. Nagios icon
     91 likes

    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
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. Kibana icon
     34 likes

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

    43 Kibana alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  7. Beszel icon
     6 likes

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

    12 Beszel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Cloudron
     
  8. Wazuh icon
     22 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.

    25 Wazuh alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  9. HyperDX icon
     19 likes

    An open source observability platform: Unify session replays, logs, traces, and errors – all without the Datadog price tag.

    73 HyperDX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  10. Grafana Loki icon
     11 likes

    Grafana Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate. It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream.

    61 Grafana Loki alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Monitorix icon
     9 likes

    Monitorix is a system monitoring tool designed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. Due to its simplicity and small size it can also be used on embedded devices.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  12. Logstash icon
     39 likes

    Logstash is an open source, server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from a multitude of sources simultaneously, transforms it, and then sends it to your favorite "stash.".

    68 Logstash alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Java Mobile
    • BSD
     
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