Sysdig Alternatives

Apps similar to Sysdig include Wireshark, which is free and open source. Other options are Better Stack, Datadog, HyperDX and tcpdump. There's no shortage of Network Monitors like Sysdig, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, the web, 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.

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    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  2. Wireshark icon
     992 likes

    Wireshark is a premier network protocol analyzer used globally in industries and education, offering multi-platform support, deep protocol inspection, powerful display filters, and VoIP analysis. It allows both live capture and offline analysis, supporting various networks and protocols.

    66 Wireshark alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Arch Linux
    • Flathub
    • Fedora
    • FreeBSD
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
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  3. Datadog icon
     79 likes

    Monitor and visualize your IT and DevOps environments seamlessly with over 120 integrations, enabling real-time insight across on-premise and cloud deployments. Utilize robust analytics, graphing, and correlation tools for error logging and network monitoring. Improve collaboration and proactive IT management.

    265 Datadog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  4. HyperDX icon
     22 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
    • US flagUnited States
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  5. tcpdump icon
     60 likes

    Command-line packet analyzer for monitoring, capturing, and filtering network traffic in real time. Supports TCP/IP protocols, pcap file export, BPF syntax, timestamped outputs, and works on UNIX-like systems with both wired and wireless interfaces.

    32 tcpdump alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  6. DeepFlow icon
     6 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)
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  7. Coroot icon
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    Coroot is an open-source observability and APM tool with AI-powered Root Cause Analysis. It combines metrics, logs, traces, continuous profiling, and SLO-based alerting with predefined dashboards and inspections.

    Cost / License

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  8. LogMint icon
     1 like

    LogMint is a lightweight observability platform for SaaS developers and startups. Track logs, metrics, audit events, dashboards, and alerts all from a single SDK.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • npm
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  9. Impacket icon
     2 likes

    Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols. Impacket is focused on providing low-level programmatic access to the packets and for some protocols (e.g. SMB1-3 and MSRPC) the protocol implementation itself.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Docker
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
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  10. ChaosSearch icon
     1 like

    ChaosSearch specializes in data analytics and indexing solutions for large-scale cloud object storage environments. The company is innovating in data indexing and search, making it easier to access and analyze vast amounts of application telemetry data efficiently.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  11.  1 like

    Flows-first PCAP TUI (case files, gorgeous UX). Do do do do.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Rust
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  12.  1 like

    Lurk allows the user to trace system calls of a process or of a command. In contrast to strace, lurk focuses on a simple, yet pretty, user experience while implementing the most important use cases of strace.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  13. lsof icon
     8 likes

    Lsof lists open files for running UNIX processes. It is a descendent of ofiles, fstat, and lsof versions 1, 2, and 3.

    8 lsof alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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