Instead of AWS X-Ray
AWS X-Ray alternatives
AWS X-Ray collects application request data and lets teams view, filter, and analyze traces to find issues and optimization opportunities. A trace can show request and response details alongside calls to AWS resources, microservices, databases, and web APIs. Its service map helps locate bottlenecks and latency spikes, and AWS integrations can instrument requests or send trace data. It supports OpenTelemetry, and offers configurable sampling, encryption at rest, and 30-day trace retention.
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Grafana Cloud Application Observability
Free plan AndroidAPIExtension+5Application teams investigating correlated service issues — Grafana Cloud Application Observability unifies metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with service discovery, RED metrics, and root-cause investigation.
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Tracetest
Free plan APILinuxMac+3Teams testing distributed systems with OpenTelemetry traces — Tracetest uses traces to assert on integration and end-to-end test responses, spans, timing, and system side effects.
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Uptrace
Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+3Teams wanting OpenTelemetry observability with self-hosting options — Uptrace combines traces, metrics, and logs with UQL, PromQL-compatible metrics, custom dashboards, and self-hosted installation options.
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Apache SkyWalking
Free plan APILinuxMac+3Cloud-native and AI workload observability — Apache SkyWalking combines traces, metrics, logs, and profiling, with topology views for infrastructure and visibility into AI agent activity.
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Honeycomb
Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+2Debugging systems with structured telemetry and AI-assisted investigation — Honeycomb adds AI-assisted investigations, natural-language queries, shared workspaces, and outlier analysis across traces, metrics, and logs.
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Hubble
Free plan APILinuxMac+3Troubleshooting Kubernetes network flows and service dependencies — Hubble focuses on network-flow visibility, identity metadata, DNS-aware filtering, and diagnosing communication failures at Layers 4 and 7.
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Hypertrace
Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWeb+1Self-hosted teams analyzing distributed request paths — Hypertrace visualizes traced request paths and network trends, supports OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, and Zipkin formats, and offers self-hosted deployment.
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Google Cloud Trace
Free plan APILinuxWeb - 9
AppSignal
Free plan APIWeb - 10
Baselime
Free plan APIWeb - 11
Jaeger
Free plan APILinuxMac+3 - 12
DataBuff
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb - 13
Grafana Cloud Traces
Free plan APIWeb - 14
Sentry Performance
Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+2 - 15
SigNoz
Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+2 - 16
Pinpoint
Free plan Self-hostedWebWindows - 17
Pixie
Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWeb - 18
Tencent Cloud Application Performance Management
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1 - 19
OpenZipkin
Free plan Self-hostedWeb - 20
Grafana Alerting
Free plan LinuxMacWeb+1 - 21
Elastic APM
Free plan LinuxMacWeb+1 - 22
Tracekit
Free plan APIWeb - 23
Grafana Tempo
Free plan Linux - 24
Sematext Tracing
Free trial AndroidAPIiPhone+5
The fit is narrower if you need a different workflow or deployment model: X-Ray is cloud-deployed, its usage is billed by traces beyond monthly free allowances, and AWS limits new SDK and daemon releases to security fixes from February 25, 2026, recommending migration to OpenTelemetry. Compare alternatives by whether you need broader metrics, logs, and profiles; trace-based testing; network-flow visibility; AI workload insights; or self-hosting. Also weigh each product’s retention, integrations, pricing, and platform coverage against X-Ray’s AWS-oriented tracing and access controls.
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