Open Source Prometheus Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Prometheus is HyperDX. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Prometheus and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Prometheus are Grafana Loki, InfluxDB, Kibana and VictoriaMetrics.

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  1. HyperDX icon

    HyperDX

     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
    HyperDX screenshot 1
     
  2. Grafana Loki icon

    Grafana Loki

     13 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.

    65 Grafana Loki alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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    Grafana Loki vs Prometheus Comments
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    Negative
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    Grafana Loki is for storing logs while Prometheus is for storing metrics

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Grafana Loki is Free and Open SourcePrometheus is also Free and Open Source
  4. InfluxDB icon

    InfluxDB

     9 likes

    InfluxDB open source time series database, purpose-built by InfluxData for monitoring metrics and events, provides real-time visibility into stacks, sensors, and systems. Use InfluxDB to capture, analyze, and store millions of points per second, meet demanding SLA’s, and chart a...

    16 InfluxDB alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
    InfluxDB screenshot 1
     
  5. Kibana icon

    Kibana

     34 likes

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

    45 Kibana alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    Kibana screenshot 1
     
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    Kibana vs Prometheus Comments
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    Negative
    6

    Kibana is a web interface to present metrics. It's not an alerting system. ELK-Stack with X-Pack is more similar.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Kibana is Freemium and Open SourcePrometheus is Free and Open Source
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    VictoriaMetrics

     3 likes

    VictoriaMetrics can be used as long-term storage for Prometheus or for vmagent.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. Open Web Analytics icon

    Open Web Analytics

     43 likes

    Open Web Analytics - Web Analytics – Open Source Web Analytics Framework

    The Open Web Analytics (OWA) framework provides a generic set of PHP and HTTP APIs that application developers can use to integrate web analytics into any application. The Framework also has built-in suppor.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    OWA Dashboard
     
  9. Laravel Nightwatch icon

    Laravel Nightwatch

     5 likes

    Monitor your Laravel applications with precision. Enhance performance and reliability with error tracking, comprehensive logs, and deep insights tailored specifically for Laravel.

    54 Laravel Nightwatch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Laravel
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Laravel Nightwatch screenshot 1
     
  10. Logstash icon

    Logstash

     40 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.".

    71 Logstash alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Java Mobile
    • BSD
    sample logs in Kibana
     
  11. DeepFlow icon

    DeepFlow

     5 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    DeepFlow screenshot 1
     
  12. Cortex Project icon

    Cortex Project

     1 like

    Cortex provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  13. OpenNMS Horizon icon

    OpenNMS Horizon

     11 likes

    OpenNMS is an open-source network monitoring platform that helps you visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    Dashboard
     
  14. SigNoz icon

    SigNoz

     18 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    SigNoz screenshot 1
     
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