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Fivenines vs Sematext Monitoring
Both stand on infrastructure monitoring. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.
Free trial APILinuxWeb+1
Fivenines covers infrastructure, uptime, and scheduled-job monitoring with automation and several developer interfaces. Its open-source agent has a limited outbound security model, while the monitoring backend remains cloud hosted.
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Free plan LinuxWebWindows
Choose Sematext Monitoring if you need broad infrastructure coverage, service integrations, and alerting across Linux, Windows, and cloud environments. Look elsewhere if agentless monitoring is a requirement; also check that the Basic plan’s one-day retention meets your needs.
Visit Sematext MonitoringThe facts
| Fivenines | Sematext Monitoring | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | A free trial | Yes |
| Open source | Not published | Not published |
| Runs on | API, Linux, Web, Windows | Linux, Web, Windows |
| Lowest paid plan | Starter: €15 a month | See the plans |
| Plans published | 4 | 1 |
| Maker | Not published | Not published |
| Website | fivenines.io | sematext.com |
| On infrastructure monitoring | #25 of 34 | #21 of 34 |
Fivenines: what it does well
- Monitors servers and services together
- Checks HTTPS, TCP, ICMP, and DNS
- Cron missed-run alerts
- Public REST API and Terraform provider
- 14-day trial without credit card
What to know first
- No free plan
- Dashboard and backend are SaaS-only
- Alert channels vary by plan
Sematext Monitoring: what it does well
- Monitors infrastructure across Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, and containers.
- Tracks CPU, memory, disk, I/O, network, and load metrics.
- Lists more than 100 out-of-the-box integrations.
- Alerts can reach email, Slack, PagerDuty, or webhooks.
- Paid plans list unlimited sources and users.
What to know first
- Monitoring is agent-based; agentless monitoring is not supported.
- The Basic plan has one-day data retention.
- The starting price depends on hosts, containers, plan, and retention.
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