18.4
Grafana Cloud Application Observability is a cloud application monitoring product that uses OpenTelemetry and Prometheus data to help software…
Free planAndroidiOSWeb
Best Distributed Tracing Tools in 2026
When you need to follow requests as they move through services, distributed tracing tools offer different ways to collect and inspect trace data. Compare OpenTelemetry support and service maps with tail-based sampling and trace retention to assess the capabilities shown. Deployment model helps frame setup, while free-plan availability, paid-from pricing, and pricing basis give cost context. Grafana Cloud Application…
28.4
Uptrace is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform that brings traces, metrics, and logs together.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinux
37.6
SigNoz is an open-source observability tool for monitoring applications and infrastructure.
Free planAndroidiOSWeb
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Honeycomb
Honeycomb is an observability platform for debugging systems, application code and databases with structured telemetry.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI7.5From $150 a month - 5
Tencent Cloud Application Performance Management
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted7.2 - 6
AWS X-Ray
AWS X-Ray is a cloud service for tracing application requests and examining how they move through an application.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.1Free plan - 7
AppSignal
AppSignal is a cloud application monitoring service for developers, combining error tracking, performance monitoring, logs, and tracing.
Free planWebAPI6.9From $279 a year - 8
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 - 9
Grafana Alerting
Free planWebLinuxmacOSWindows6.8$0.03 usage-based - 10
Hypertrace
Hypertrace is a free, open-source observability platform that analyzes distributed traces to show production request behavior and network trends.
Free planWebLinuxSelf-hostedWindows6.8Free plan - 11
Tracekit
Tracekit is a cloud service for developers investigating production issues across services.
Free planWebAPI6.7From $24 a month - 12
Apache SkyWalking
Apache SkyWalking is a free, self-hosted observability platform for cloud-native systems and AI workloads.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.6Free plan - 13
IBM Instana Observability
Free planWebLinux6.6From $21.20 a month - 14
Jaeger
Jaeger is a free, open-source platform for distributed tracing in complex systems.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.6Free plan - 15
Pinpoint
Pinpoint is a free, open-source application performance management tool for distributed applications written in Java, PHP, and Python.
Free planWebSelf-hostedWindows6.6Free plan - 16
Sentry Performance
Sentry Performance is an application performance monitoring service for developers investigating bottlenecks in applications and distributed systems.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI6.6Free plan - 17
Tracetest
Tracetest is a free, open-source tool for integration and end-to-end testing that uses OpenTelemetry traces.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.6Free plan - 18
Pixie
Pixie is open-source Kubernetes observability and debugging software for developers.
Free planWebLinuxSelf-hosted6.5Free plan - 19
Sematext Tracing
Sematext Tracing is an OpenTelemetry-based distributed tracing service for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices and distributed systems.
AndroidiOSWebAPI6.4 - 20
Hubble
Hubble is a networking and security observability platform built on Cilium and eBPF.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.3Free plan - 21
Grafana Cloud Traces
Grafana Cloud Traces is a managed backend for searching distributed traces, deriving metrics from spans, and connecting trace data with logs and metrics.
Free planWebAPI6.1Free plan - 22
OpenZipkin
OpenZipkin is the open-source organization that stewards Zipkin code, documentation, specifications, and support; Zipkin was originally created at Twitter.
Free planWebSelf-hosted6.1Free plan - 23
Baselime
Baselime is a cloud observability service for detecting, diagnosing, and resolving software issues with logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.
Free planWebAPI6.0Free plan - 24
Elastic APM
WebLinuxmacOSWindows6.0$99 usage-based - 25
Google Cloud Trace
WebAPILinux6.0$0.20 usage-based