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Guance Container Monitoring follows containers, pods, and workloads through creation, restarts, changes, and termination. Its Kubernetes views move from cluster and node to namespace, workload, pod, and container, while metrics, logs, traces, and network data remain connected. Teams can inspect CPU, memory, network, disk, restart, replica, and node-pressure signals alongside workload-object changes, then alert on node, pod, container, workload, or service conditions. AWS Fargate collection scenarios are also documented. A free plan covers host, container, and Kubernetes collection for up to 10 hosts, with 10,000 metric series and 10 million log records daily and seven-day rolling retention, but its data cannot move to a Commercial Plan workspace.

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    Middleware

    Free plan AndroidAPIExtension+5

    Full-stack observability with application and user monitoring — Middleware adds infrastructure, APM, RUM, synthetic, browser, database, and LLM observability with 450+ integrations.

    7.3 Free plan · paid from $0.30 · 14-day trial Visit site
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    Netdata

    Free plan Open source AndroidAPIiPhone+5

    Real-time infrastructure monitoring with extensive collectors — Netdata offers per-second metrics, ML anomaly detection, 800+ collectors, and managed or on-premises deployment.

    8.8 Free plan · paid from $4.50/mo (annual) · 14-day trial Visit site
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    Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

    Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+5

    On-premises Windows server and network monitoring — PRTG runs on Windows servers with 250+ sensors for systems, devices, traffic, applications, and infrastructure.

    7.2 Free plan · paid from $200/mo (annual) · 30-day trial Visit site
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    Accessibility Test Framework for Android

    Free plan AndroidLinuxMac+1

    Automated Android accessibility testing — The Android framework checks accessibility properties in View and AccessibilityNodeInfo objects rather than monitoring containers.

    Free plan Visit site
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    Checkmk

    Free plan Open source AndroidAPIiPhone+5

    Large hybrid, cloud, and data-center environments — Checkmk combines 2,000+ smart checks, auto-discovery, network mapping, cloud monitoring, and distributed scaling.

    9.2 Free plan · paid from €190/mo (annual) · 30-day trial Visit site
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    Dynatrace Kubernetes Monitoring

    Free trial AndroidAPIiPhone+3

    Kubernetes application performance and security analysis — Dynatrace adds Kubernetes alerting, GitOps monitoring-as-code, predictive resource analysis, root-cause analysis, and code-level profiling.

    From $2.25 · 15-day trial Visit site
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    Glances

    Free plan Open source AndroidAPILinux+4

    Free, open-source real-time system statistics — Glances is a lightweight cross-platform tool for processes, system statistics, Docker and Podman containers, APIs, and exports.

    9.1 Free plan Visit site
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    Coroot

    Free plan Open source APILinuxSelf-hosted+2
    9.2 Free plan · paid from $1/mo · 14-day trial Visit site
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    Portainer

    Free plan Open source AndroidAPIiPhone+3
    8.7 Free plan · paid from $1,045/yr · 45-day trial Visit site
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    Uptrace

    Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+3
    8.6 Free plan · paid from $39/mo · 14-day trial Visit site
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    Checkmate

    by Checkmate
    Free plan APILinuxMac+3
    7.6 Free plan Visit site
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    ctop

    Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+1
    7.5 Free plan Visit site
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    DockMon

    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1
    7.5 Free plan Visit site
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    Elastic Observability

    by Elastic Observability
    Free plan APILinuxMac+3
    7.5 Pricing on request · 14-day trial Visit site
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    Agrafa

    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1
    7.4 Open source Visit site
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    Glances

    Free plan AndroidAPILinux+4
    7.4 Open source Visit site
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    Grafana Cloud Kubernetes Monitoring

    Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWeb
    7.3 Free plan Visit site
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    Icinga

    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+2
    7.3 Free plan · 60-day trial Visit site
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    Maintenant

    Free plan APILinuxMac+3
    7.3 Free plan · paid from €149 · 14-day trial Visit site
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    Nagios XI

    Free plan APILinuxMac+3
    7.3 From $4,995 · 30-day trial Visit site
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    groundcover

    by groundcover
    Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWeb
    7.2 Free plan · paid from $30/mo Visit site
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    New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring

    Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWeb+1
    7.2 Free plan · paid from $0.01 Visit site
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    OneUptime

    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1
    7.2 Free plan · paid from $22/user/mo · 14-day trial Visit site
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    Prometheus

    Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+2
    7.1 Free plan Visit site
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    Pulse Intelligence

    Free plan APILinuxMac+3
    7.1 Open source Visit site
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    Sematext Container Monitoring

    Free plan APILinuxMac+3
    7.1 14-day trial Visit site

Readers may prefer another product for broader observability, extensive infrastructure integrations, on-premises network monitoring, cloud coverage, or lightweight system statistics. Compare each option’s container scope with Guance’s Kubernetes drill-down and telemetry correlation, plus deployment model, supported platforms, alerting, retention, integrations, and analysis tools. Pricing ranges from free plans to usage-based or paid subscriptions, and trial terms differ. Also consider whether you need application, database, network, accessibility, or general server monitoring beyond container operations.

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