Compare 37 cloud monitoring platforms
Every platform in one index, grouped by what it monitors, with the vendor's published cost and a link to the pricing page it came from.
37 platforms 9 categories 33 tags
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
5 listed 
New Relic Full-stack observability, APM, real user monitoring, synthetic monitoring. Notable for being a comprehensive and developer-friendly platform. $10-349/user/month
Full-stack observability, APM, real user monitoring, synthetic monitoring. Notable for being a comprehensive and developer-friendly platform.
- Free
- 100GB data, 1 full platform user
- Standard
- $10 first user + $99 additional users (max 5)
- Pro
- $349/user/year (unlimited users)
- Enterprise
- Custom pricing
- Data ingestion
- $0.35/GB (Standard) or $0.55/GB (Data Plus)
- Pricing page
- newrelic.com/pricing
AppDynamics Business transaction monitoring, code-level diagnostics, AI-powered analytics. Notable for its business context correlation and enterprise focus. $6-429/CPU core/month
Business transaction monitoring, code-level diagnostics, AI-powered analytics. Notable for its business context correlation and enterprise focus.
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- $6/CPU core/month
- Premium Edition
- $33/CPU core/month
- Enterprise Edition
- $90/CPU core/month
- Advanced Edition APM
- $429/CPU core/month
- Pricing page
- Contact for custom quote
Dynatrace AI-powered monitoring, automated root cause analysis, full-stack observability. Notable for its Davis AI engine and automated problem detection. $0.001-0.20 per unit (consumption-based)
AI-powered monitoring, automated root cause analysis, full-stack observability. Notable for its Davis AI engine and automated problem detection.
- Full-Stack Monitoring
- $0.08/hour/8GB host
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- $0.04/hour/host
- Real User Monitoring
- $0.00225/session
- Synthetic Monitoring
- $0.001/synthetic request
- Log Management
- $0.20/GiB ingestion
- Pricing page
- www.dynatrace.com/pricing/
- Note
- Annual minimum commitment required (~$2,000/month)
Datadog Unified observability, APM, infrastructure monitoring, log management. Notable for its 850+ integrations and unified platform. $15-70/host/month + usage-based fees
Unified observability, APM, infrastructure monitoring, log management. Notable for its 850+ integrations and unified platform.
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- $15/host/month
- APM
- $31/host/month
- Database Monitoring
- $70/database host/month
- Real User Monitoring
- $1.50/1,000 sessions
- Log Management
- Usage-based pricing
- Pricing page
- www.datadoghq.com/pricing/
Elastic APM Distributed tracing, performance monitoring, integrates with ELK Stack. Notable for being part of the Elastic Stack and being cost-effective. Cloud: From $95/month. Self-Managed: Free basic tier + paid commercial licenses.
Distributed tracing, performance monitoring, integrates with ELK Stack. Notable for being part of the Elastic Stack and being cost-effective.
- Cloud Standard
- $95/month (Basic APM features, distributed tracing)
- Cloud Platinum
- $125/month (ML anomaly detection, advanced security)
- Cloud Enterprise
- $175/month (Full APM capabilities with AI Assistant)
- Self-Managed (Free)
- APM Server, agents, distributed tracing, service maps
- Self-Managed (Commercial)
- ML, advanced analytics require Platinum/Enterprise license ($7,200+/node/year)
- Pricing page
- www.elastic.co/observability/application-performance-monitoring
Cloud-Native Monitoring
3 listed 
AWS CloudWatch AWS native monitoring, metrics, logs, alarms, dashboards. Notable for its native AWS integration and comprehensive AWS coverage. Free tier + usage-based pricing
AWS native monitoring, metrics, logs, alarms, dashboards. Notable for its native AWS integration and comprehensive AWS coverage.
- Free tier
- 10 custom metrics, 1M API requests, 5GB log ingestion
- Custom metrics
- $0.30/metric/month (first 10,000)
- Log ingestion
- $0.50/GB
- API requests
- $0.01/1,000 requests
- Pricing page
- aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/
Azure Monitor Azure native monitoring, Log Analytics, Application Insights. Notable for its native Azure integration and KQL query language. Consumption-based pricing
Azure native monitoring, Log Analytics, Application Insights. Notable for its native Azure integration and KQL query language.
- Log Analytics
- Pay-per-GB ingested and retained
- Metrics
- Free for standard metrics
- Alerts
- Based on signal type and frequency
- Pricing page
- azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/monitor/
Google Cloud Monitoring GCP native monitoring, custom metrics, alerting policies. Notable for its native GCP integration and machine learning insights. $0.2580/MiB + alert pricing starting 2026
GCP native monitoring, custom metrics, alerting policies. Notable for its native GCP integration and machine learning insights.
- Monitoring data
- $0.258/MiB (first 150-100k MiB)
- Prometheus metrics
- $0.06/million samples
- Alert pricing (starting May 2026)
- $0.10/month per condition
- Pricing page
- cloud.google.com/stackdriver/pricing
Cost Management & FinOps
4 listed 
CloudZero Unit cost analysis, cost allocation without tags, anomaly detection. Notable for its tagless cost allocation and engineering-focus. $19/month per $1k AWS spend
Unit cost analysis, cost allocation without tags, anomaly detection. Notable for its tagless cost allocation and engineering-focus.
- Note
- Usage-based pricing tied to AWS spend
- Note
- Additional charges for spend over contract
- AWS Marketplace
- Available with various contract options
- Website
- www.cloudzero.com
Finout Virtual tagging, MegaBill, multi-cloud cost management. Notable for its virtual tagging technology and enterprise focus. $1,000-2,000/month + custom enterprise
Virtual tagging, MegaBill, multi-cloud cost management. Notable for its virtual tagging technology and enterprise focus.
- Business
- $1,000/month (2 cost centers)
- Pro
- $2,000/month (3 cost centers)
- Enterprise
- Custom pricing (unlimited)
- Pricing page
- www.finout.io/pricing
CloudHealth by VMware Cost optimization, governance, policy management. Notable for its VMware integration and enterprise governance. 2.2-2.5% of managed cloud spend
Cost optimization, governance, policy management. Notable for its VMware integration and enterprise governance.
- 12-month contract
- 2.5% of tracked spend
- 36-month contract
- 2.2% of tracked spend
- Minimum annual fees
- $45,000-150,000 depending on tier
Flexera One ITAM, software licensing, cloud cost management. Notable for its comprehensive IT asset management. $50,000/year for $1M cloud spend (5%)
ITAM, software licensing, cloud cost management. Notable for its comprehensive IT asset management.
- 12-month
- $50,000 (up to $1M annual cloud spend)
- 24-month
- $100,000
- 36-month
- $150,000
- Overages
- $0.01 per dollar over $1M limit
Infrastructure & Performance Monitoring
5 listed 
Zabbix Network monitoring, server monitoring, SNMP, auto-discovery. Notable for being highly scalable, with an extensive plugin ecosystem. Free (Open Source)
Network monitoring, server monitoring, SNMP, auto-discovery. Notable for being highly scalable, with an extensive plugin ecosystem.
- License
- GPL v2 (versions before 7.0), AGPLv3 (version 7.0+)
- Pricing page
- www.zabbix.com/true_open_source
- Note
- Completely free software with no licensing fees. Optional paid support and professional services available
Nagios Host/service monitoring, alerting, plugin architecture. Notable for its mature ecosystem and being highly customizable. $1,995 - $25,990 (one-time license)
Host/service monitoring, alerting, plugin architecture. Notable for its mature ecosystem and being highly customizable.
- 50 nodes
- $1,995
- 100 nodes
- $2,495
- 500 nodes
- $7,995
- 1000 nodes
- $14,495
- Unlimited nodes
- $23,995
- Pricing page
- www.nagios.com/pricing-plans/
- Note
- Enterprise plans available with higher pricing and additional features
PRTG Network Monitor Sensor-based monitoring, drag-drop interface, auto-discovery. Notable for its user-friendly interface and being an all-in-one solution. $179 - $1,492/month (annual billing)
Sensor-based monitoring, drag-drop interface, auto-discovery. Notable for its user-friendly interface and being an all-in-one solution.
- 500 sensors
- $179/month
- 1000 sensors
- $325/month
- 2500 sensors
- $675/month
- 5000 sensors
- $1,183/month
- 10000 sensors
- $1,492/month
- Pricing page
- www.paessler.com/pricing
- Free version
- Up to 100 sensors
SolarWinds NPM Network performance monitoring, topology mapping, advanced analytics. Notable for its enterprise-grade features and modular architecture. $6/node/month (starting price)
Network performance monitoring, topology mapping, advanced analytics. Notable for its enterprise-grade features and modular architecture.
- Monitoring & Observability
- Starts at $6/node/month
- Database Observability
- Starts at $117/database/month
- Service Management
- Starts at $39/technician/month
- Pricing page
- www.solarwinds.com/pricing
- Note
- Element-based licensing model with significant cost escalation for large deployments
ManageEngine OpManager Network monitoring, server monitoring, workflow automation. Notable for offering cost-effective enterprise features. Contact for pricing (estimated $2-5/server/month)
Network monitoring, server monitoring, workflow automation. Notable for offering cost-effective enterprise features.
- Note
- Subscription-based pricing
- Note
- Significantly cheaper than competitors
- Pricing page
- store.manageengine.com/opmanager/
- Note
- Free version available with limited features
Log Management & Analytics
4 listed 
Splunk Log analysis, SIEM, machine learning, real-time search. Notable for its enterprise security focus and powerful search capabilities. $1,800-18,000/year (1-10GB/day)
Log analysis, SIEM, machine learning, real-time search. Notable for its enterprise security focus and powerful search capabilities.
- Data volume-based pricing
- Starting ~$1,800 for 1GB/day
- Enterprise deployment (500GB/day)
- $400,000-800,000 first year
- Free version
- 500MB/day limit
- Pricing page
- www.splunk.com/en_us/products/pricing.html
Elastic Stack (ELK) Log aggregation, search, visualization, real-time analytics. Notable for its open source flexibility and powerful search. Cloud: From $95/month or usage-based. Self-Managed: Free tier + commercial licenses ($7,200+/year).
Log aggregation, search, visualization, real-time analytics. Notable for its open source flexibility and powerful search.
- Cloud Standard
- $95/month (Core features, security, alerting)
- Cloud Platinum
- $125/month (Adds ML, advanced security, cross-cluster replication)
- Cloud Serverless
- Usage-based (pay-as-you-go for ingest, search, storage)
- Self-Managed (Free)
- Basic features available (no ML, security, or alerting)
- Self-Managed Platinum License
- ~$7,200/node/year
- Pricing page
- www.elastic.co/pricing
Fluentd Log collection, data routing, plugin ecosystem. Notable for being a unified logging layer and a CNCF project. Free (Open Source)
Log collection, data routing, plugin ecosystem. Notable for being a unified logging layer and a CNCF project.
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Self-hosted
- Infrastructure costs only
- Website
- www.fluentd.org
Logz.io ELK as a service, AI-powered insights, security analytics. Notable for being a managed ELK service with AI features. Consumption-based pricing
ELK as a service, AI-powered insights, security analytics. Notable for being a managed ELK service with AI features.
- AWS Marketplace
- $1.13/GB (includes ingestion, indexing, retention)
- Note
- Volume discounts available
- Pricing page
- logz.io/pricing/
Observability & Analytics Platforms
5 listed 
Grafana Data visualization, dashboards, alerting, multi-source data. Notable for its visualization excellence and extensive data source support. Free tier + usage-based pricing
Data visualization, dashboards, alerting, multi-source data. Notable for its visualization excellence and extensive data source support.
- Free
- 10k metrics, 50GB logs/traces, 3 users
- Metrics
- $6.50/1k series beyond free tier
- Logs/Traces/Profiles
- $0.50/GB ingested
- Visualization
- $8/active user ($55 with Enterprise plugins)
- Pricing page
- grafana.com/pricing/
Prometheus Metrics collection, time-series database, alerting. Notable for being a cloud-native monitoring CNCF project. Free (Open Source)
Metrics collection, time-series database, alerting. Notable for being a cloud-native monitoring CNCF project.
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Self-hosted
- Infrastructure costs only
- AWS Managed Service
- $0.30/million samples + $0.03/GB-month storage
- Pricing page
- prometheus.io
Jaeger Distributed tracing, performance monitoring, root cause analysis. Notable for being a distributed tracing specialist and a CNCF project. Free (Open Source)
Distributed tracing, performance monitoring, root cause analysis. Notable for being a distributed tracing specialist and a CNCF project.
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Self-hosted
- Infrastructure costs only
- Website
- www.jaegertracing.io
Honeycomb High-cardinality observability, query-driven debugging, distributed tracing. Notable for its modern observability approach and high-cardinality data. Free + $130-Custom/month
High-cardinality observability, query-driven debugging, distributed tracing. Notable for its modern observability approach and high-cardinality data.
- Free
- Up to 20M events/month
- Pro
- Starting at $130/month (up to 1.5B events)
- Enterprise
- Custom pricing
- Telemetry Collection
- Starting at $0.10/GB
- Pricing page
- www.honeycomb.io/pricing
Middleware Full-stack observability, AI querying, LLM monitoring. Notable for its AI-powered features and modern platform. Free tier + $0.30/GB usage-based
Full-stack observability, AI querying, LLM monitoring. Notable for its AI-powered features and modern platform.
- Free
- 100GB/month
- Pay-as-you-go
- $0.30/GB for logs, APM, infrastructure
- Note
- No tier lock-ins or user restrictions
- Pricing page
- middleware.io/pricing/
Security & Compliance Monitoring
3 listed 
Wiz CNAPP, CSPM, agentless scanning, attack path analysis. Notable for its comprehensive cloud security and attack path visualization. $24,000-354,350/year
CNAPP, CSPM, agentless scanning, attack path analysis. Notable for its comprehensive cloud security and attack path visualization.
- Wiz Essential
- $24,000/year (100 workloads)
- Wiz Advanced
- $38,000/year (100 workloads)
- Wiz Code add-on
- $58,500/year (100 units)
- Median cost
- $111,500/year
- Pricing page
- www.wiz.io/pricing
Prisma Cloud CWPP, CSPM, compliance monitoring, threat detection. Notable for being a Palo Alto Networks platform with comprehensive security. $90-180/month (unit-based)
CWPP, CSPM, compliance monitoring, threat detection. Notable for being a Palo Alto Networks platform with comprehensive security.
- Business Edition
- $90/unit/month
- Enterprise Edition
- $180/unit/month
- Note
- Annual contracts required
- Note
- Pricing varies by cloud spend and requirements
Aqua Security Container security, runtime protection, compliance scanning. Notable for its container security focus and runtime protection. Custom pricing (contact required)
Container security, runtime protection, compliance scanning. Notable for its container security focus and runtime protection.
- Dev Security
- Trial available
- Cloud Security
- Trial available
- Note
- Pricing varies by deployment size and requirements
- Pricing page
- www.aquasec.com/pricing/
Synthetic Monitoring
3 listed 
Synthetic Monitoring - Checkly Monitoring as code, Playwright tests, API monitoring. Notable for its developer workflow integration. API checks: $2/10k runs. Browser checks: $5/1k runs. Uptime monitors from $0.40/month.
Monitoring as code, Playwright tests, API monitoring. Notable for its developer workflow integration.
- API Check Runs
- $2 per 10,000 runs
- Browser Check Runs
- $5 per 1,000 runs
- Browser Check Overages
- $6.50 per 1,000 runs
- Uptime Monitor
- $0.40/month for a 30-second frequency check
- Note
- Monitoring as Code support is included for automation
- Note
- A free trial is available
Synthetic Monitoring - Datadog Browser tests, API tests, mobile app testing. Notable for being part of the unified Datadog platform. API tests: $5 per 10,000 runs/month. Browser tests: $12 per 1,000 runs/month.
Browser tests, API tests, mobile app testing. Notable for being part of the unified Datadog platform.
- API Tests
- $5 per 10,000 test runs per month
- Browser Tests
- $12 per 1,000 test runs per month
- Note
- Billing is based on the number of test executions
- Note
- Cost increases with test frequency and number of locations
- Note
- Browser tests cost more than API tests
- Note
- Annual billing and volume discounts are available
Ghost Inspector Website testing, automated regression testing, CI/CD integration. Notable for its easy test creation and regression testing focus. $50,000/year for $1M cloud spend (5%)
Website testing, automated regression testing, CI/CD integration. Notable for its easy test creation and regression testing focus.
- 12-month
- $50,000 (up to $1M annual cloud spend)
- 24-month
- $100,000
- 36-month
- $150,000
- Overages
- $0.01 per dollar over $1M limit
Uptime & Availability Monitoring
5 listed 
Pingdom Uptime monitoring, synthetic monitoring, RUM, performance insights. Notable for its global monitoring network and being backed by SolarWinds. $10-830/month (annual billing)
Uptime monitoring, synthetic monitoring, RUM, performance insights. Notable for its global monitoring network and being backed by SolarWinds.
- Tier 1
- $10/month (10 checks)
- Tier 2
- $25/month (25 checks)
- Tier 5
- $185/month (200 checks)
- Tier 10
- $830/month (1,000 checks)
- Pricing page
- www.pingdom.com/pricing/
UptimeRobot Website monitoring, SSL monitoring, status pages, multi-location checks. Notable for its available free tier and simple setup. Free + $7-58/month
Website monitoring, SSL monitoring, status pages, multi-location checks. Notable for its available free tier and simple setup.
- Free
- 50 monitors, 5-minute intervals
- Pro
- $7/month (20 monitors, 1-minute intervals)
- Business
- $15/month (50 monitors)
- Enterprise
- $58/month (300 monitors)
- Pricing page
- uptimerobot.com/pricing/
Site24x7 Synthetic monitoring, uptime monitoring, APM, infrastructure monitoring. Notable for its comprehensive monitoring suite and 130+ monitoring locations. $9-89/month
Synthetic monitoring, uptime monitoring, APM, infrastructure monitoring. Notable for its comprehensive monitoring suite and 130+ monitoring locations.
- Starter
- $9/month (10 monitors)
- Pro
- $35/month (40 monitors, 3 applications)
- Classic
- $89/month (estimated for 50 servers)
- Pricing page
- www.site24x7.com/site24x7-pricing.html
Checkly Monitoring as code, Playwright integration, API monitoring. Notable for being developer-centric with monitoring as code. Usage-based synthetic monitoring
Monitoring as code, Playwright integration, API monitoring. Notable for being developer-centric with monitoring as code.
- Note
- Approximately half the cost of Datadog Synthetics
- API checks
- More cost-effective than competitors
- Browser checks
- Comprehensive Playwright support
- Pricing page
- www.checklyhq.com/pricing/
StatusCake Uptime monitoring, page speed monitoring, virus scanning. Notable for its affordable pricing and virus scanning feature. Free + $20-67/month
Uptime monitoring, page speed monitoring, virus scanning. Notable for its affordable pricing and virus scanning feature.
- Free
- 10 monitors, 5-minute intervals
- Superior
- $20/month (100 monitors, 1-minute intervals)
- Business
- $67/month (300 monitors, 30-second intervals)
- Pricing page
- www.statuscake.com/pricing/
No platform carries every selected tag.
Frequently asked questions
Answers reviewed July 2026
What is the best cloud monitoring tool?
There is no single best cloud monitoring tool, because the platforms differ most in how they bill you rather than in what they can see. Datadog carries the broadest catalogue of integrations and bills per host with separate charges per product, so costs compound once you enable APM, logs and RUM together. Dynatrace instruments a host automatically through its OneAgent and analyses dependencies with its Davis AI engine, and it is usually the most expensive to start. New Relic bills on data ingested instead of per host, and its free tier includes 100 GB per month plus one full platform user. Prometheus paired with Grafana remains the standard open-source stack for cloud-native and Kubernetes estates. Better Stack combines logs, metrics, uptime and incident management on one platform and targets mid-sized engineering teams. Match the billing model to the shape of your infrastructure first, then compare features.
What is a cloud monitoring system?
A cloud monitoring system collects telemetry from cloud infrastructure and turns it into alerts a team can act on. It gathers three kinds of signal: metrics, which are numeric measurements sampled over time such as CPU, memory, request rate and latency; logs, which are timestamped records of individual events; and traces, which follow one request across every service it touches. The system stores that data, evaluates it against thresholds or learned baselines, and notifies whoever is on call when something breaches. What separates it from traditional server monitoring is that cloud resources are ephemeral, so it has to discover new instances, containers and serverless functions on its own rather than being pointed at a fixed list of hosts.
What are the tools used for monitoring clouds?
Cloud monitoring tools fall into three groups. The provider-native services are AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and Cloud Monitoring inside Google Cloud Observability, which was previously branded Stackdriver and then Google Cloud Operations. The third-party platforms include Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Splunk Observability Cloud, and Better Stack, and these are what most teams use for visibility across more than one cloud. The open-source options include Prometheus for metrics, Grafana for dashboards and visualization, Zabbix for infrastructure monitoring, and Nagios for network monitoring. All three groups collect metrics, logs, traces, and performance data from cloud infrastructure, and most teams end up running a provider-native service alongside one third-party or open-source platform.
What is the difference between cloud monitoring and CloudWatch?
CloudWatch is one specific product; cloud monitoring is the category it belongs to. Amazon CloudWatch is the monitoring service built into AWS, and it sees AWS resources such as EC2, S3, Lambda and RDS natively, with no agent required for basic metrics and no separate contract. Cloud monitoring describes the wider practice of watching infrastructure wherever it runs, across more than one provider and often alongside on-premises hardware. The difference becomes practical the moment you run anything outside AWS, because CloudWatch cannot see it. At that point teams either add each provider's own service, meaning Azure Monitor and Google Cloud Monitoring, or run a single third-party platform across everything and accept the extra cost for one consistent view.
What is the cloud monitoring API?
A cloud monitoring API is the programmatic interface to a monitoring platform, used in place of its web console. It generally lets you write custom metrics, read time-series data back out, create and update dashboards, manage alerting policies, and query the current state of checks. Teams reach for it in three situations: sending application-specific measurements the platform cannot collect by itself, keeping monitoring configuration in version control next to the service it watches instead of clicking it into a console, and pulling data into somewhere else such as an internal report or a capacity model. Every major platform publishes one, including AWS CloudWatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, Datadog, New Relic and Prometheus.
How to do API monitoring?
API monitoring means running scheduled requests against your endpoints and alerting when a response is wrong, slow or missing. Start by listing the endpoints that actually matter, which is usually authentication, checkout or payment, and anything a partner integrates with. For each one, define what a correct response looks like rather than settling for a status code: the expected code, a required field in the response body, and a response time you are willing to accept. Run the check from more than one region, so a regional network fault can be told apart from a genuinely broken service. Alert on consecutive failures instead of a single one, or ordinary network noise will produce false alarms. Record response time as a trend and not only as pass or fail, because latency almost always degrades before an endpoint stops working.
What is Google Cloud Monitoring API?
The Cloud Monitoring API gives programmatic access to metrics, dashboards, alerting policies, and uptime checks for Google Cloud resources and applications. It is part of Google Cloud Observability, the suite previously branded Stackdriver and then Google Cloud Operations, so older documentation still refers to it as the Stackdriver Monitoring API. Teams use it to write custom metrics, read time-series data, build dashboards programmatically, and manage alerting policies as code rather than through the console. It integrates with other Google Cloud services and works alongside the Cloud Logging and Cloud Trace APIs in the same suite.
What are best API monitoring tools?
API monitoring tools split by how much depth you need. For simple endpoint checks, UptimeRobot and StatusCake run scheduled requests and alert on failures, and both offer a free tier. Pingdom checks endpoints for uptime and response time from a large probe network, though it no longer has a free plan following its acquisition by SolarWinds. For tests written as code, Checkly runs API and browser checks defined in your repository and integrates with Playwright, and Postman runs scheduled collection tests against saved requests. For API monitoring tied to the rest of your stack, Datadog and New Relic attach endpoint checks to infrastructure and application traces, so a failing call can be traced to the service behind it. Choose based on whether you need a pass or fail signal or the cause of the failure.