All observability & APM vendors

These are the 16 observability and APM vendors we track. Each has a dedicated page with its per-product pricing table (APM, logs, metrics, RUM, tracing, error tracking), pricing model, free tier, cost pros and cons, and a link to the vendor's pricing page. Billing models split into per-host (Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk), usage / per-GB (New Relic, Grafana Cloud, Elastic, Coralogix), per-event (Sentry, Honeycomb), per-vCPU (AppDynamics) and per-monitor (Site24x7). Pricing snapshot: June 2026 - verify current pricing on the vendor's site before relying on these figures.

Data as of June 2026.

Vendor	Primary billing	Headline price	Free tier?
Better Stack	Per GB / usage	Free tier; Logs from $24/mo, Uptime from $29/mo	Yes
Chronosphere	Custom / quote	Custom / contact sales (usage-based)	No
Coralogix	Per GB / usage	Logs from $0.42/GB; as low as $0.17/GB tiered	No
Datadog	Per host	APM from $31/host/mo (annual)	Yes
Dynatrace	Per host	Full-stack from ~$69/mo per 8 GiB host	No
Elastic Observability	Per GB / usage	Logs from ~$0.105/GB ingest + retention	No
Grafana Cloud	Per GB / usage	Free tier, then Pro from $19/mo + usage	Yes
Honeycomb	Per event / volume	Free 20M events; Pro from $130/100M events	Yes
Last9	Per event / volume	Pro $1,150/mo for 1B events, then usage	Yes
Logz.io	Per GB / usage	Logs from ~$0.92/GB/day (7-day retention)	Yes
New Relic	Per GB / usage	100 GB/mo free, then $0.40/GB + per-user	Yes
Sentry	Per event / volume	Free 5K errors; Team from $26/mo	No
Site24x7	Per monitor	From $9/mo (Starter); APM from $35/mo	Yes
Splunk AppDynamics	Per vCPU	APM (Premium) ~$33/vCPU/mo	No
Splunk Observability Cloud	Per host	Infra from $15/host/mo; APM ~$60+/host	No
Sumo Logic	Per GB / usage	Free tier; credits ~$0.15-$0.36 each (Flex)	Yes