OpenObserve alternatives

Other error monitoring & observability tools to consider instead of OpenObserve. Key features and starting prices come from each vendor's own site.

Feature OpenObserve Rising Datadog Category leader New Relic Category leader Sentry Category leader Better Stack Rising Dash0 Rising SigNoz
PricingFree plan
$0.50/GB ingested
Free plan
$18/host/mo on-demand
Free plan
$10/mo
Free plan
$29/mo
Free plan
$34/month
PaidFree plan
$49/month
Best forEngineering teams of 10 to 500 that want to cut log storage costs and need a self-hostable, OpenTelemetry-native stack.Mid-size and larger engineering teams that want infrastructure, APM and logs in one cloud platform and can manage usage-based costs.Engineering teams that want APM, logs and infrastructure monitoring in one usage-priced platform, starting on a free 100 GB tier.Developer teams of any size that want code-level error tracking and tracing with a free plan for a solo developer.Small engineering teams that want uptime checks, status pages and on-call alerts alongside logs without running their own stack.Engineering teams of 10 to 200 people that already instrument with OpenTelemetry and want usage-based pricing.Engineering teams that want OpenTelemetry-based observability and the option to self-host to control cost.
Team size2–500+ people51–500+ people2–500+ people1–500+ people1–500 people2–500+ people2–500+ people
Error tracking Not listedYesYesYesYesNot listedYes
Distributed tracing YesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Log management YesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Infrastructure metrics Not listedYesYesNot listedYesYesYes
Alerting and on-call routing Not listedYesYesYesYesYesYes
Custom dashboards YesYesYesYesYesYesYes
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Error monitoring & observability Category leader

Datadog

Free plan· $18/host/mo on-demand 51–500+ people

Monitoring and security platform for cloud applications and infrastructure

Key features

  • Error tracking
  • Distributed tracing
  • Log management
  • Infrastructure metrics
  • Alerting and on-call routing
  • Custom dashboards

Error monitoring & observability Category leader

New Relic

Free plan· $10/mo 2–500+ people

Observability platform covering APM, logs, infrastructure and browser

Key features

  • Error tracking
  • Distributed tracing
  • Log management
  • Infrastructure metrics
  • Alerting and on-call routing
  • Custom dashboards

Error monitoring & observability Category leader

Sentry

Free plan· $29/mo 1–500+ people

Application monitoring that surfaces errors, slow code and replays

Key features

  • Error tracking
  • Distributed tracing
  • Log management
  • Alerting and on-call routing
  • Custom dashboards

Error monitoring & observability Rising

Better Stack

Free plan· $34/month 1–500 people

Uptime monitoring, logs, tracing and incident management in one tool

Key features

  • Error tracking
  • Distributed tracing
  • Log management
  • Infrastructure metrics
  • Alerting and on-call routing
  • Custom dashboards

Error monitoring & observability Rising

Dash0

Paid 2–500+ people

OpenTelemetry-native observability for logs, metrics and traces

Key features

  • Distributed tracing
  • Log management
  • Infrastructure metrics
  • Alerting and on-call routing
  • Custom dashboards

Error monitoring & observability

SigNoz

Free plan· $49/month 2–500+ people

OpenTelemetry-native observability with an open-source edition

Key features

  • Error tracking
  • Distributed tracing
  • Log management
  • Infrastructure metrics
  • Alerting and on-call routing
  • Custom dashboards