Best Free Monitoring Tools

A

Axiom

Free tier available

Cloud-native observability platform for logs, traces, and event data with serverless query engine and unlimited cardinality

Switching Cost: moderate

B

BetterStack

Free tier available

Unified monitoring, logging, and incident management platform for developers and DevOps teams

Switching Cost: moderate

C

Checkly

Free tier available

Monitoring platform for uptime checks, synthetic monitoring with Playwright, status pages, and AI root cause analysis

Switching Cost: moderate

A

Amazon CloudWatch

Free tier available

AWS monitoring and observability service for metrics, logs, alarms, and dashboards

Switching Cost: significant

C

Cronitor

Free tier available

Monitoring platform for cron jobs, heartbeats, websites, and APIs with integrated status pages

Switching Cost: moderate

D

Datadog

Free tier available

Cloud-scale monitoring and security platform for infrastructure, APM, logs, and real-time observability

Switching Cost: architectural

G

Grafana Cloud

Free tier available

Composable observability platform with managed Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo for metrics, logs, and traces

Switching Cost: drop-in

H

Highlight.io

Free tier available

Open-source full-stack observability platform with session replay, error monitoring, logging, and tracing

Switching Cost: moderate

H

Honeycomb

Free tier available

Observability platform for debugging complex systems with distributed tracing and event-driven analytics

Switching Cost: moderate

i

incident.io

Free tier available

Incident management platform with on-call scheduling, status pages, workflows, and post-mortems

Switching Cost: moderate

L

LogRocket

Free tier available

Frontend monitoring and session replay platform for debugging user experience issues with error tracking and product analytics

Switching Cost: moderate

N

New Relic

Free tier available

Full-stack observability platform with APM, infrastructure monitoring, logs, and alerting

Switching Cost: moderate

O

OpenStatus

Free tier available

Open-source monitoring platform with status pages, uptime checks, and incident management

Switching Cost: drop-in

P

PagerDuty

Free tier available

Incident management and response platform with on-call scheduling, alerting, and AIOps

Switching Cost: significant

S

Sentry

Free tier available

Application monitoring and error tracking platform with performance monitoring, session replay, and AI debugging

Switching Cost: moderate