24 ranked picks · Updated daily

Self-hosted monitoring, Grafana, Netdata, and the open-source observability stack

Datadog, New Relic, and Grafana Cloud all charge per host or per metric. Self-hosted Grafana + Prometheus + Loki gives the same dashboards on infra you already own.

Cheapest path: netdata on hetzner for $4.13/mo, that's about $130/year less than Datadog.

The 24 picks, ranked by health

Health score is a 6-dimension composite. See methodology.

netdata
by netdata
82/100

The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.

C GPL-3.0
79k
$4.13/mo
4/5
flipt
by flipt-io
82/100

Enterprise-ready, Git native feature management solution

Go NOASSERTION
4.8k
$4.13/mo
2/5
flipt
by markphelps
82/100

Enterprise-ready, Git native feature management solution

Go NOASSERTION
4.8k
$4.13/mo
2/5
prometheus
by prometheus
81/100

The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

Go Apache-2.0
64k
$4.13/mo
2/5
kibana
by elastic
81/100

Your window into all of your data

TypeScript NOASSERTION
21k
$4.13/mo
2/5
prefect
by PrefectHQ
80/100

Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python.

Python Apache-2.0
22k
$4.13/mo
2/5
jaeger
by jaegertracing
79/100

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

Go Apache-2.0
23k
$4.13/mo
2/5
vector
by vectordotdev
79/100

A high-performance observability data pipeline.

Rust MPL-2.0
22k
$4.13/mo
2/5
VictoriaMetrics
by VictoriaMetrics
79/100

VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

Go Apache-2.0
17k
$4.13/mo
2/5
langfuse
by langfuse
78/100

Open source LLM engineering platform: LLM Observability, metrics, evals, prompt management, playground, datasets. Integrates with OpenTelemetry, Langchain, OpenAI SDK, LiteLLM, and more. YC W23

TypeScript NOASSERTION
27k
$4.13/mo
1/5
openobserve
by openobserve
78/100

OpenObserve is an open-source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, and frontend monitoring. A cost-effective alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment.

TypeScript AGPL-3.0
19k
$4.13/mo
3/5
greptimedb
by grepTimeTeam
78/100

The open-source Observability 2.0 database. One engine for metrics, logs, and traces, replacing Prometheus, Loki & ES.

Rust Apache-2.0
6.2k
$4.13/mo
2/5
agenta
by agenta-ai
78/100

The open-source LLMOps platform: prompt playground, prompt management, LLM evaluation, and LLM observability all in one place.

TypeScript NOASSERTION
4.1k
$4.13/mo
2/5
gofr
by gofr-dev
77/100

An opinionated GoLang framework for accelerated microservice development. Built in support for databases and observability.

Go Apache-2.0
22k
$4.13/mo
2/5
healthchecks
by healthchecks
77/100

Open-source cron job and background task monitoring service, written in Python & Django

Python BSD-3-Clause
10k
$4.13/mo
4/5
benthos
by benthosdev
77/100

Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane

Go
8.7k
$4.13/mo
2/5
quickwit
by quickwit-oss
76/100

Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.

Rust Apache-2.0
11k
$4.13/mo
2/5
voltagent
by voltagent
76/100

AI Agent Engineering Platform built on an Open Source TypeScript AI Agent Framework

TypeScript MIT
8.6k
$4.13/mo
2/5
teslamate
by teslamate-org
76/100

A self-hosted data logger for your Tesla [main maintainer=@JakobLichterfeld]

Elixir AGPL-3.0
7.9k
$4.13/mo
2/5
opentelemetry-rust
by open-telemetry
76/100

The Rust OpenTelemetry implementation

Rust Apache-2.0
2.6k
$4.13/mo
2/5
influxdb
by influxdb
75/100

Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics

Rust Apache-2.0
31k
$4.13/mo
2/5
gf
by gogf
75/100

A powerful framework for faster, easier, and more efficient project development.

Go MIT
13k
$4.13/mo
2/5
changedetection.io
by dgtlmoon
74/100

Best and simplest tool for website change detection, web page monitoring, and website change alerts. Perfect for tracking content changes, price drops, restock alerts, and website defacement monitoring, all for free or enjoy our SaaS plan!

Python Apache-2.0
31k
$4.13/mo
1/5
gatus
by TwinProduction
74/100

Automated developer-oriented status page with alerting and incident support

Go Apache-2.0
11k
$4.13/mo
2/5

Specifically replacing

These categories on ossreplace cover the SaaS in this space.

Grafana Cloud alternativesDatadog alternativesSplunk alternatives

Ready to self-host?

Most operators land on netdata (top health) and run it on hetzner for around $4.13/mo.

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