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Best Skylight Alternatives in 2026

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20 apps from application performance monitoring ranked against Skylight on the same published basis.

  1. 1
    Middleware Free plan AndroidapiiOSLinuxMac $0.30/mo6.8
    Skylight vs Middleware
  2. 2
    Grafana Cloud Application Observability Free plan LinuxMacWebWin $0.03/mo6.7
    Skylight vs Grafana Cloud Application Observability
  3. 3
    Uptrace Free plan apiLinuxMacself-hostedWeb $39/mo6.7
    Skylight vs Uptrace
  4. 4
    Apache SkyWalking Free plan apiLinuxMacself-hostedWeb Free6.6
    Skylight vs Apache SkyWalking
  5. 5
    Honeycomb Free plan AndroidapiiOSself-hostedWeb $150/mo6.6
    Skylight vs Honeycomb
  6. 6
    Jaeger Free plan apiLinuxMacself-hostedWeb Free6.6
    Skylight vs Jaeger
  7. 7
    ManageEngine Applications Manager Free plan AndroidiOSLinuxWebWin $32.92/mo6.6
    Skylight vs ManageEngine Applications Manager
  8. 8
    New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring Free plan Linuxself-hostedWebWin $29.08/mo6.6
    Skylight vs New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring
  9. 9
    SigNoz Free plan AndroidapiiOSself-hostedWeb $19/mo6.6
    Skylight vs SigNoz
  10. 10
    groundcover Free plan Linuxself-hostedWeb $30/mo6.5
    Skylight vs groundcover
  11. 11
    New Relic Session Replay Free plan AndroidiOSWeb $10/mo6.4
    Skylight vs New Relic Session Replay
  12. 12
    New Relic APM Free plan Web $10/mo6.3
    Skylight vs New Relic APM
  13. 13
    Elastic Observability Free trial apiLinuxMacself-hostedWeb 5.7
    Skylight vs Elastic Observability
  14. 14
    Blackfire.io apiextensionLinuxMacWeb €33.25/mo5.6
    Skylight vs Blackfire.io
  15. 15
    Sematext APM Free trial apiLinuxself-hostedWebWin $19/mo5.6
    Skylight vs Sematext APM
  16. 16
    Dynatrace Application Monitoring Free trial AndroidapiiOSLinuxMac $58/mo5.4
    Skylight vs Dynatrace Application Monitoring
  17. 17
    Raygun Application Performance Monitoring Free trial AndroidiOSLinuxWebWin $120/mo5.3
    Skylight vs Raygun Application Performance Monitoring
  18. 18
    RoRvsWild WebiOSAndroid 5.3
    Skylight vs RoRvsWild
  19. 20
    AppSignal Web 5.2
    Skylight vs AppSignal
  20. 21
    eG Enterprise Free trial Linuxself-hostedWebWin $100/mo5.2
    Skylight vs eG Enterprise

Skylight alternatives compared

#AppScoreFree planFromRuns on
1Middleware6.8Free plan$0.30/moAndroid, API, iOS, Linux, Mac, Web, Windows
2Grafana Cloud Application Observability6.7Free plan$0.03/moLinux, Mac, Web, Windows
3Uptrace6.7Free plan$39/moAPI, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Web, Windows
4Apache SkyWalking6.6Free planFreeAPI, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Web, Windows
5Honeycomb6.6Free plan$150/moAndroid, API, iOS, self-hosted, Web
6Jaeger6.6Free planFreeAPI, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Web, Windows
7ManageEngine Applications Manager6.6Free plan$32.92/moAndroid, iOS, Linux, Web, Windows
8New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring6.6Free plan$29.08/moLinux, self-hosted, Web, Windows
9SigNoz6.6Free plan$19/moAndroid, API, iOS, self-hosted, Web
10groundcover6.5Free plan$30/moLinux, self-hosted, Web
11New Relic Session Replay6.4Free plan$10/moAndroid, iOS, Web
12New Relic APM6.3Free plan$10/moWeb
13Elastic Observability5.7No—API, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Web, Windows
14Blackfire.io5.6No€33.25/moAPI, Browser, Linux, Mac, Web, Windows
15Sematext APM5.6No$19/moAPI, Linux, self-hosted, Web, Windows
16Dynatrace Application Monitoring5.4No$58/moAndroid, API, iOS, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Web, Windows
17Raygun Application Performance Monitoring5.3No$120/moAndroid, iOS, Linux, Web, Windows
18RoRvsWild5.3No—Web, iOS, Android
20AppSignal5.2No—Web
21eG Enterprise5.2No$100/moLinux, self-hosted, Web, Windows
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Questions about Skylight alternatives

What is the best alternative to Skylight?

Middleware, number 1 in application performance monitoring with a score of 6.8 out of 10. The others here: Grafana Cloud Application Observability, Uptrace, Apache SkyWalking and 16 more.

What is the best free alternative to Skylight?

Middleware is the best-ranked alternative with a free plan. 12 of the 20 alternatives here publish a free plan on their own pricing pages.

How are these alternatives ranked?

Ranked free-and-open first: a usable free tier and open-source code, then the platforms it runs on and its documentation.