Facts read 28 Sep 2026 – 19 Oct 2026
Software in this category helps you watch applications and services while they run. Use this list to compare plans, prices, trials, platforms and monitoring features.
| Name | In a line | Record score | Price from | Try it free | Runs on | Facts read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Netdata | Netdata is aimed at infrastructure teams and practitioners, including platform engineers, DevOps teams, SREs, developers, system administrators, CISOs, DBAs, network… | 6.6 | $4.50 a month, billed yearly | Free plan | Android, iPhone & iPad, Web, Windows | 15 Oct 2026 |
| 02 BugSnag | BugSnag is aimed at development teams monitoring mobile and web applications. | 6.3 | Free plan | Free plan | Android, iPhone & iPad, Web, Windows | 15 Oct 2026 |
| 03 Grafana Cloud Application Observability | This service suits software engineers who need to detect application anomalies, investigate causes, and fix problems. | 6.3 | $0.03 usage-based | Free plan | Android, iPhone & iPad, Web, Windows | 14 Oct 2026 |
| 04 Uptrace | Uptrace suits teams that need to query and monitor traces, metrics, and logs together. | 6.3 | $39 a month | Free plan | Web, Windows, Mac, Linux | 14 Oct 2026 |
| 05 Backtrace | Backtrace suits engineering, support, and QA teams investigating crashes across mobile, PC, game console, and server environments. | 6.2 | $600 a year | Free plan | Android, iPhone & iPad, Web, Windows | 29 Sep 2026 |
| 06 Coroot | 6.1 | $25 a month | Free plan | Web, Windows, Linux, API | 19 Oct 2026 | |
| 07 Middleware | Middleware suits teams seeking observability across infrastructure, applications, and real-user activity. | 6.1 | Free plan | Free plan | Android, iPhone & iPad, Web, Windows | 14 Oct 2026 |
| 08 Embrace | Embrace is aimed at frontend and mobile engineers, and also highlights DevOps and SRE teams. | 6.0 | $0.80 usage-based | Free plan | Android, iPhone & iPad, Web, Browser extension | 15 Oct 2026 |
| 09 Airbrake | Airbrake suits developers and technical teams seeking error and performance monitoring with deployment context and real-time alerts. | 5.9 | $17 a month, billed yearly | Free plan | Android, iPhone & iPad, Web, API | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 10 Alibaba Cloud ARMS RUM | It may suit teams seeking application performance, ANR, and network request monitoring across Android, iOS, and web. | 5.9 | Free plan | Free plan | Android, iPhone & iPad, Web, Windows | 14 Oct 2026 |
Entries use figures published by their makers and carry no score. The comparison includes distributed tracing, error tracking, continuous profiling, service maps, real user monitoring and log correlation.
Netdata is aimed at infrastructure teams and practitioners, including platform engineers, DevOps teams, SREs, developers, system administrators, CISOs, DBAs, network…
BugSnag is aimed at development teams monitoring mobile and web applications.
AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+5This service suits software engineers who need to detect application anomalies, investigate causes, and fix problems.
AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+5Uptrace suits teams that need to query and monitor traces, metrics, and logs together.
WebWindowsMac+3Backtrace suits engineering, support, and QA teams investigating crashes across mobile, PC, game console, and server environments.
AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+4Middleware suits teams seeking observability across infrastructure, applications, and real-user activity.
Embrace is aimed at frontend and mobile engineers, and also highlights DevOps and SRE teams.
Airbrake suits developers and technical teams seeking error and performance monitoring with deployment context and real-time alerts.
It may suit teams seeking application performance, ANR, and network request monitoring across Android, iOS, and web.
SigNoz suits teams monitoring application and infrastructure telemetry across logs, metrics, traces and exceptions.
groundcover suits teams monitoring production environments that want telemetry collection through an eBPF sensor and a choice of cloud-managed or on-premises deployment.
Honeycomb may suit individuals testing observability or teams debugging production applications with telemetry.
Exceptionless suits development teams monitoring errors and application events across supported frameworks.
GlitchTip suits development teams that need application error, performance, uptime, and log monitoring.
Scout suits engineering teams monitoring applications built with its listed language agents.
Application Insights suits teams that need to monitor application telemetry across supported workloads, including apps hosted outside Azure.
It suits development teams that need one service for application errors, logs, uptime, scheduled jobs, and status pages.
Hypertrace is aimed at infrastructure, service, and deployment teams investigating failed requests, service overload, or changes in performance between software versions.
AppSignal suits developers monitoring application errors, performance, logs, and traces across its supported languages.
Jaeger suits engineering teams troubleshooting distributed systems with trace data, dependency views, performance metrics, and configurable sampling.
Odigos suits engineers, AI agents, and security teams investigating production behavior, containing attacks, or improving code.
SkyWalking suits teams that need observability across cloud-native infrastructure, services, or AI workloads and can manage a self-hosted deployment.
Check whether a tool offers a free plan, a trial or an open-source option. Paid pricing may start at a monthly, yearly, usage-based or user-based amount.
Read the pricing note beside the tool for its stated starting point and trial length.
For deeper runtime visibility, review each product's support for distributed tracing, error tracking and continuous profiling.
Service maps, real user monitoring and log correlation add views of service relationships, user activity and log data.
Confirm that the tool runs on the platform you use. The entries span web and API services, Linux and Windows systems, self-hosted deployments and iOS.
Teams preferring to operate software in their own environment may consider a self-hosted option.
If access to source code matters, look for entries marked open source before choosing a tool.
