Self-Hosted Datadog Alternatives

Datadog is not available as a self-hosted solution but there are plenty of alternatives for power users and business that want to host a solution on-premise. The best Self-Hosted alternative is Grafana, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Datadog and many of them are available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted alternatives to Datadog are Zabbix, Netdata, Graylog and Beszel.

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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.

    67 Grafana alternatives

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    • 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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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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    Zabbix vs Datadog Comments
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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.
    • Zabbix is Free and Open SourceDatadog is Paid and Proprietary
    • Zabbix is Privacy focusedDatadog is not according to our users
  3. Netdata icon
     66 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
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • C (programming language)
    • Python
    • GNU Bourne Again SHell
     
  4. Graylog icon
     42 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.

    68 Graylog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Cloudron
     
  6. HyperDX icon
     19 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  7. Sentry icon
     43 likes

    Sentry’s real-time error tracking gives you insight into production deployments and information to reproduce and fix crashes—before your users contact you.

    75 Sentry alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. 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.

    64 Grafana Loki alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. 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, provides high-availability features and detailed reporting.

    110 Paessler PRTG Network Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. Pandora FMS icon
     70 likes

    Enterprise-ready monitoring solution that provides unparalleled flexibility for IT to address both immediate and unforeseen operational issues, including infrastructure and IT processes.

    39 Pandora FMS alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  11. DeepFlow icon
     5 likes

    Unify your cloud-native monitoring with zero-code eBPF, advanced profiling, and 10x storage efficiency.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  12. SigNoz icon
     18 likes

    Open source observability platform. SigNoz helps developers find issues in their deployed applications & solve them quickly.

    185 SigNoz alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
     
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