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New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring connects cluster operations with application behavior across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Its explorer brings together Kubernetes metrics, events, logs, and traces, covering control planes, nodes, namespaces, deployments, replica sets, pods, and containers. Prometheus scraping, APM correlation, supported database and service integrations, predefined and custom alerts, and autoscaling triggers help teams investigate problems across Kubernetes estates. Helm and manifest installation support environments such as GKE, EKS, AKS, OKE, and OpenShift.
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Middleware
Free plan AndroidAPIExtension+5Full-stack observability with AI-assisted issue resolution — Middleware combines infrastructure, APM, logs, RUM, synthetics, browser testing, databases, and LLM observability with OpsAI.
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Netdata
Free plan Open source AndroidAPIiPhone+5Real-time infrastructure monitoring with flexible deployment — Netdata emphasizes per-second metrics, machine-learning anomaly detection, 800+ collectors, and managed, on-premises, or air-gapped deployment.
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Datadog Kubernetes Monitoring
Free plan APILinuxMac+3Correlated Kubernetes health, performance, and security signals — Datadog correlates Kubernetes logs, traces, metrics, network traffic, and security signals, with forecasting and anomaly detection across 1,000+ integrations.
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Dynatrace Kubernetes Monitoring
Free trial AndroidAPIiPhone+3Kubernetes optimization and code-level application analysis — Dynatrace adds predictive resource analysis, automatic root-cause and impact identification, code-level profiling, and deployment validation.
From $2.25 · 15-day trial Visit site - 5
Grafana Cloud Application Observability
Free plan AndroidAPIExtension+5OpenTelemetry and Prometheus application performance workflows — Grafana combines telemetry with an automatically discovered service graph, RED metrics, RCA workbench, Entity Graph, and profile drill-downs.
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Radar
Free plan APILinuxMac+3Open-source Kubernetes topology and AI investigations — Radar is a Kubernetes interface with live topology, Helm and GitOps views, image internals, audits, and AI investigations.
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Checkmk
Free plan Open source AndroidAPIiPhone+5Large hybrid infrastructure and server monitoring estates — Checkmk covers servers, clouds, containers, and networks with 2,000+ smart checks, distributed scaling, and agentless monitoring methods.
Free plan · paid from €190/mo (annual) · 30-day trial Visit site - 8
avuru obs
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1 - 9
Azure Monitor
Free plan APILinuxMac+2 - 10
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Google Cloud Monitoring
Free plan APILinuxWeb+1 - 12
Honeycomb
Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+2 - 13
Icinga
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+2 - 14
Botkube
Free plan Self-hosted - 15
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Perses
Free plan APILinuxMac+2 - 17
Prometheus
Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+2 - 18
SigNoz
Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+2 - 19
Site24x7 Kubernetes Monitoring
Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+5 - 20
Pixie
Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWeb - 21
Robusta
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb - 22
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Sematext Monitoring
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Watchlog
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+2 - 26
Zabbix
Free plan APILinuxMac+3
An alternative may fit better if New Relic’s licensing, retention, platform mix, or collection model misses your needs. The free tier provides 100 GB of monthly ingest, while usage beyond that is charged per gigabyte; Pro costs $349 annually, and deeper host metrics typically use a privileged sidecar. Compare broader full-stack coverage, per-second monitoring, machine-learning analysis, topology and GitOps workflows, deployment options, integrations, alerting, security controls, and retention. Check whether each product’s free allowance, trial, operating systems, and installation approach suit your team before switching.
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