Grafana Cloud Application Observability is a cloud application monitoring product that uses OpenTelemetry and Prometheus data to help software…
Best Application Performance Monitoring in 2026
Application performance monitoring software helps teams investigate how applications behave and where performance issues may arise. Compared on distributed tracing, transaction tracing, and real user monitoring, these options cover different ways to follow requests and user experience. Log correlation and dependency mapping offer further angles for understanding application behavior, while deployment model can help…
Uptrace is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform that brings traces, metrics, and logs together.
Middleware is a full-stack observability platform for spotting and addressing issues across infrastructure, applications, and real-user activity.
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SigNoz
SigNoz is an open-source observability tool for monitoring applications and infrastructure.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI7.6From $19 a month - 5

Honeycomb
Honeycomb is an observability platform for debugging systems, application code and databases with structured telemetry.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI7.5From $150 a month - 6
Chronosphere Application Observability
Chronosphere Application Observability is a cloud service for observing cloud-native applications and microservices so teams can detect and resolve issues.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.4Free plan - 7

Raygun Application Performance Monitoring
Raygun Application Performance Monitoring (APM) monitors server-side performance and provides trend, real-time performance, and user-experience data.
AndroidiOSWebLinux7.2From $120 a month - 8

groundcover
groundcover is a cloud-native observability platform for monitoring production environments.
Free planWebLinuxSelf-hosted7.1From $30 a month - 9

ManageEngine Applications Manager
ManageEngine Applications Manager is a hybrid application and infrastructure monitoring product available for Android, iOS, Linux, web, and Windows.
Free planAndroidiOSWebLinux7.1From $395 a year - 10

New Relic Session Replay
New Relic Session Replay is a session replay capability within New Relic’s software platform, available on Android, iOS and the web.
Free planAndroidiOSWeb7.1From $10 a month - 11

Azure Monitor
WebAPILinuxmacOS7.0 - 12

AppSignal
AppSignal is a cloud application monitoring service for developers, combining error tracking, performance monitoring, logs, and tracing.
Free planWebAPI6.9From $279 a year - 13

Scout APM
Scout APM is a cloud application performance monitoring platform from Zimuth, Inc., built to help engineering teams find and address application performance problems.
Free planWebAPI6.9From $10 a month - 14

SolarWinds Observability
SolarWinds Observability combines application, digital experience, database, infrastructure, network, and log data to help teams detect problems,…
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.9From $5 a month - 15

Dynatrace Application Monitoring
Dynatrace Application Monitoring tracks application performance, availability and user experience to help teams identify and resolve issues before they affect customers.
AndroidiOSWebAPI6.8From $58 a month - 16
eG Enterprise
eG Enterprise is an application and infrastructure monitoring platform that correlates user experience, application behavior, and infrastructure…
WebLinuxSelf-hostedWindows6.8From $100 a month - 17
Grafana Alerting
Free planWebLinuxmacOSWindows6.8$0.03 usage-based - 18
RoRvsWild
RoRvsWild is a cloud service for Ruby on Rails application performance monitoring and error tracking, available on web, iOS, and Android.
AndroidiOSWeb6.7€400 usage-based - 19
Skylight
Skylight is a cloud-based profiler for Ruby and Rails applications that helps teams identify performance issues.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.7From $20 a month - 20

Apache SkyWalking
Apache SkyWalking is a free, self-hosted observability platform for cloud-native systems and AI workloads.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.6Free plan - 21
Coralogix APM
Coralogix APM is a cloud-hosted application performance monitoring service for microservices, serverless workloads and Kubernetes.
WebAPI6.6$0.16 usage-based - 22
IBM Instana Observability
Free planWebLinux6.6From $21.20 a month - 23
Jaeger
Jaeger is a free, open-source platform for distributed tracing in complex systems.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.6Free plan - 24
Keymetrics
Keymetrics develops monitoring for Node.js server infrastructure using the open-source PM2 process manager.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.6From $79 a month - 25
Tideways
Tideways monitors PHP applications in production and helps teams locate slow code, queries, external calls, errors, and exceptions.
WebAPIExtensionLinux6.6From $89 a month

