Sematext Container Monitoring
Sematext Container Monitoring gives teams a view of container and host health across distributed infrastructure.
What Sematext Container Monitoring is
Sematext Container Monitoring gives teams a view of container and host health across distributed infrastructure. Its Sematext Agent runs as a container, gathering metrics, logs, and events. The agent can be deployed in Kubernetes or Docker Swarm, with Rancher, Nomad, Portainer, Mesos, or DC/OS, or through a docker run command. Sematext can discover applications in containers and start monitoring agents when it finds them. Dashboards and alert rules are included, and one dashboard can show and filter metrics, logs, and events together. For troubleshooting, views cover hot containers, top processes, and Kubernetes details such as replica counts and pod restarts. The listed platforms include Docker Engine, Kubernetes, AWS ECS and EKS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift, and others. Sematext lists more than 100 integrations overall. A 14-day trial is available without a credit card.
Good
- Combines container and host metrics, logs, and events
- Automatic discovery can start monitoring agents
- Includes dashboards and alert rules
- Trial lasts 14 days without a credit card
Watch out
- Docker pricing depends on container usage and plan
- Basic includes one-day retention
Who it suits
It suits teams that need container and host monitoring across orchestrated environments, with logs, metrics, events, and alerting in one view. Its deployment options cover several container platforms and orchestration tools.
Verdict
Sematext combines infrastructure monitoring with container-specific troubleshooting and shared views of logs, metrics, and events. The listed starting price is usage-dependent, so expected host, container, and retention needs matter when assessing cost.
Plans and prices
From Sematext Container Monitoring's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free trial | Free | No credit card required · apps disabled after trial unless payment details are configured · 14 days |
| Infra Monitoring (annual) | $2.52 a month | 10% annual discount · metered by hosts, containers, plan and retention · Starts at $2.52 / month, billed annually |
| Infra Monitoring — Basic | $2.80 a month | 1-day retention on Basic · monitoring price depends on host and container usage · no limits on monitored containers for paid apps · Starts at $2.8 / month; metered pricing depends on hosts, containers, plan, and data retention. |
| Infra Monitoring (monthly) | $2.80 a month | metered by hosts, containers, plan and retention · unlimited sources/users · no overage charges · Starts at $2.8 / month |
The facts
Each one read from Sematext Container Monitoring's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Agent
- Sematext Agent runs as a lightweight container and collects host and container metrics.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Agent deployment
- The Sematext Agent runs as a lightweight container, Kubernetes DaemonSet or Docker Swarm service, with deployment options for Rancher, Nomad, Portainer, Mesos and DC/OS.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Alerting
- Container monitoring includes heartbeat, threshold and statistical-anomaly alert types, with default rules created automatically.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API
- Sematext Cloud exposes a REST API for remote account and app management, including app creation and alert-rule definition.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API authentication
- API calls use an account API key in an Authorization header with the apiKey scheme, with access limited by account roles.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Auto-discovery
- Applications in containers can be discovered automatically and monitoring agents can start when applications are detected.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Collected data
- The product collects container and host metrics, logs, and events, with dashboards and alert rules available out of the box.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Container installation
- Docker installation requires privileged mode and read-only host mounts for filesystem, sysfs, proc-related paths and credentials files.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Container runtimes
- Documentation says it monitors Docker and containerd containers.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The agent can run as a Kubernetes DaemonSet, Docker Swarm service, with Rancher, Nomad, Portainer, Mesos or DC/OS, or through a docker run command.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation includes container metrics, metadata, events, configuration, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, permissions, troubleshooting and agent release notes.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Events
- The agent collects runtime and Kubernetes events such as node restarts, deployments and container commands for correlation with metrics and logs.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Funding
- Sematext's own history says it is entirely self-funded, profitable and cash-flow positive without external funding or debt.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The integrations directory lists more than 100 integrations and categories for cloud services, databases, messaging, CI/CD, notification hooks and container orchestration.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Kubernetes visibility
- The interface exposes Kubernetes replica counts and pod restarts alongside other container data.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: documentation/API
- A Capterra reviewer says the Logagent library was difficult to make work and that API documentation was not sufficiently clear.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: integrations
- A GetApp review requests more integrations with security tools.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: pricing
- G2 and GetApp feedback says pricing can become expensive at larger usage levels or is somewhat costly compared with alternatives.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founding and size
- LinkedIn lists the company as founded in 2007 with 11–50 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters
- LinkedIn lists headquarters at Brooklyn, New York.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company history
- Sematext’s company history says it launched as Sematext International in Spring 2010.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- LinkedIn identifies the maker as Sematext Group, Inc., a privately held software-development company.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Brooklyn, New York, USAchecked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Limit: inactive-app deletion
- A G2 reviewer reports that apps paused for more than 31 days can be deleted without an obvious warning or configuration backup.checked 15 Oct 2026
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