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Grafana Cloud Application Observability brings metrics, logs, traces, and profiles together for application monitoring. It discovers services and their relationships from telemetry, displays latency, error ratio, and request rate, and offers an RCA workbench and Entity Graph for investigating correlated issues. OpenTelemetry and Prometheus compatibility, along with alerting controls, make it suited to engineers tracking application health across a stack.

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    ELK Stack

    Free plan APILinuxMac+2

    Teams needing flexible, searchable log pipelines — ELK Stack adds log pipelines, structured parsing, archive export, and live tailing, with both cloud and self-hosted deployment options.

    Free plan · paid from $0.07 · 14-day trial Visit site
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    Google Cloud Logging

    Free plan APIiPhoneLinux+2

    Google Cloud users analyzing logs with SQL — Google Cloud Logging adds BigQuery-backed SQL log analysis and direct BigQuery access for correlating logs with business data.

    Free plan · paid from $0.50 Visit site
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    Amazon CloudWatch Logs

    Free plan APIWeb

    AWS users wanting usage-based log management — Amazon CloudWatch Logs focuses on cloud log management, with usage-based monthly charges and a free-tier allowance of 5 GB.

    From $0.50 Visit site
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    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging

    Free plan APILinuxWeb+1

    OCI users managing audit and application logs — OCI Logging handles audit, OCI service, and custom application logs in a managed cloud log platform.

    Free plan · paid from $0.05/mo Visit site
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    Oracle Log Analytics

    Free plan APILinuxWeb+1

    Teams investigating logs across cloud and on-premises systems — Oracle Log Analytics adds machine-learning-based log analysis to narrow data toward root causes across cloud or on-premises applications and infrastructure.

    Free plan Visit site
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    Sumo Logic

    by Sumo Logic
    Free plan APILinuxMac+2

    Teams seeking cloud-based log pipelines — Sumo Logic centers on cloud log management, with pipelines, archive export, live tailing, and structured parsing.

    Free plan · pricing on request · 30-day trial Visit site
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    Fluentd

    by Fluentd
    Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+1

    Teams building a self-hosted unified logging layer — Fluentd is a free, open-source self-hosted data collector for unified logging, rather than Grafana’s cloud application observability service.

    Open source Visit site
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    DBmarlin

    Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWeb+1
    7.7 Free plan · paid from £999/yr Visit site
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    MySQL

    Free plan APILinuxMac+2
    7.4 Free plan Visit site
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    DBPLUS Performance Monitor

    Free plan APIWeb
    7.3 Free plan · 30-day trial Visit site
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    Oracle Enterprise Manager

    Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWeb+1
    7.3 Visit site
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    Paessler PRTG Database Monitoring

    Free plan AndroidiPhoneSelf-hosted+2
    7.3 Free plan · paid from $200/mo (annual) · 30-day trial Visit site
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    Google Cloud Database Center

    Free plan APIWeb
    7.2 Free plan Visit site
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    Percona Monitoring and Management

    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1
    7.2 Free plan Visit site
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    Site24x7 Database Monitoring

    Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+3
    7.1 30-day trial Visit site
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    PoWA

    Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWeb
    7.0 Free plan Visit site
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    Grafana Alerting

    Free plan LinuxMacWeb+1
    6.8 Free plan · paid from $20/user Visit site
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    ManageEngine Applications Manager

    Free plan AndroidiPhoneLinux+2
    6.6 Free plan · paid from $395/yr · 30-day trial Visit site
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    dbWatch

    Free trial LinuxSelf-hostedWeb+1
    6.5 Pricing on request Visit site
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    eG Enterprise

    Free trial LinuxSelf-hostedWeb+1
    6.5 From $100/mo · 21-day trial Visit site
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    XorMon

    Free plan Linux
    6.5 Free plan · 90-day trial Visit site
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    LogicMonitor

    Free trial APILinuxWeb+1
    6.3 From $16/mo · 15-day trial Visit site
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    New Relic Database Monitoring

    Free plan Web
    6.3 Free plan · paid from $10/user/mo Visit site
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    Guance Database Monitoring

    Free plan Web
    6.2 Free plan Visit site
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    IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager

    Free trial Self-hostedWebWindows
    6.2 From $648 · 14-day trial Visit site
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    Okmeter

    Free trial LinuxSelf-hostedWeb
    6.1 From $5/mo Visit site
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    pganalyze

    Free trial APILinuxSelf-hosted+1
    6.1 From $149/mo Visit site
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    MODWAI

    Free trial MacWindows
    6.0 7-day trial Visit site
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    SolarWinds Database Observability

    Free trial APILinuxSelf-hosted+2
    6.0 From $70/mo (annual) · 30-day trial Visit site
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    SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

    Free trial APILinuxSelf-hosted+1
    5.9 From $142/mo (annual) · 14-day trial Visit site
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    PG Monitoring

    Free trial Self-hostedWeb
    5.8 From $59/mo · 14-day trial Visit site

A log-focused alternative may suit you better if your work centers on searching, analyzing, exporting, or routing logs rather than combining application signals. Grafana’s free plan includes up to 2,232 host hours monthly; Pro has a $19 monthly platform fee and charges $0.025 per host hour, with additional usage billed as used. Serverless usage is billed on telemetry ingested. Before switching, weigh whether you need broad application observability or specific log tools, cloud alignment, self-hosting, retention, or different billing. The alternatives vary in deployment options, analysis methods, and price details.

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