Application Performance Monitoring

• Datadog

• Elastic APM

• Lightstep

• New Relic

Datadog

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• Free tier: Monitoring of 5 hosts with 1 day metric rentention.

• Pros: Offer dashboards and integrations with hundreds of apps and services.

Elastic APM

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• Free tier: unlimited applications, 500K transactions/month, 24 hour data retention on metrics and errors, unlimited users.

• Pros: Monitor front-end and back-end JavaScript applications and most common frameworks: React, Angular 1 and 2 and Node.js. Also supports Django and Flask. Formerly Opbeat, acquired by Elastic

Lightstep

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• Free tier: explore all features, 28 day data retention, 4MB/minute trace data, 7500 monthly active time series, unlimited users.

• Pros: Unlimited infrastructure, application, runtime, cloud, third-party metrics ingestion. Built-in integrations, dashboards, change intelligence, alerting, and real-time querying.

New Relic

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• Free tier: 100 GB/month, 1 free full access user, unlimited free basic users.

• Pros: Collect all your telemetry data in one place to deliver full-stack observability and power AI-driven insights so you can confidently improve service reliability and accelerate time to market. Supports most popular back-end, front-end, infrastructure, and cloud frameworks and services.

• Exceeding the free tier: After exceeding the 100 GB/month you will see a paywall asking you to add a credit card. Data collection will continue and access to key pages to lower data ingest will still be available.