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Alternatives to Datadog

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Datadog is published by Datadog. This page compares only projects with an explicit relationship to it; shared categories alone never create an alternative claim.

PublisherDatadog
Pricing baselineFrom $15/host/month, logs and spans billed separately
CheckedAugust 31, 2026 · legacy import

Project alternatives by license policy

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Uptime Kuma

Uptime KumaOpen

Self-hosted uptime monitoring with a clean status page

Stars76.4K
Commit4d ago
LicenseMIT

Uptime Kuma monitors HTTP endpoints, TCP ports, containers, and certificates, and notifies through almost a hundred channels. Setup is a container and a few minutes.

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Grafana

GrafanaOpen

Dashboards over whatever data you already store

Stars71.2K
Commit8h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Grafana is the visualisation layer that sits above other systems rather than a monitoring stack of its own. It queries Prometheus, Loki, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and dozens of other sources, and puts them on the same dashboard.

Alternative todatadog

Useful groups

Groups appear only when at least two credible projects qualify.

Best overall by organic score

Uptime Kuma, Grafana