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Best Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools
Explore leading tools in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) category, including open-source options and SaaS products. Compare features, use cases, and find the best fit for your workflow.
7 open-source projects · 6 SaaS products
Top open-source Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
These projects are active, self-hostable choices for knowledge management teams evaluating alternatives to SaaS tools.
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Apache SkyWalking
Cloud-native APM for distributed tracing and observability
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- 24,612
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- Apache-2.0
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Pinpoint
Real-time tracing and topology for large-scale Java, PHP, Python services
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- 13,755
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- Apache-2.0
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Calico
Scalable, high-performance networking and security for cloud-native workloads
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OpenObserve delivers fast, low‑cost logs, metrics, traces and RUM via a single binary or HA mode, with OpenTelemetry, SQL/PromQL queries and built‑in dashboards.
Popular SaaS Platforms to Replace
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Datadog APM
Cloud APM with code-level distributed tracing and correlation to logs/metrics.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
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Dynatrace Application Monitoring
AI-assisted APM with automated discovery and root-cause analysis.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
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IBM Instana APM
Real-time APM and distributed tracing for microservices.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
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New Relic APM
Full-stack APM with distributed tracing and error/log correlation.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
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Raygun
Application performance monitoring and error tracking
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
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Sentry APM
Performance monitoring tied to errors and distributed traces.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
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Datadog APM provides end-to-end traces, service maps, and real-time analysis that correlate with logs, metrics, and RUM to find root causes faster.
Leading hosted platforms
Frequently replaced when teams want private deployments and lower TCO.
Explore related categories
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- Continuous ProfilingAlways-on code profiling (CPU, memory, locks) to optimize performance in production.
- Distributed TracingTools to trace requests across microservices for performance and debugging.
- Error TrackingPlatforms for capturing and tracking application errors and exceptions (crash reports).
- Incident Management & On-CallOn-call scheduling, paging and incident response orchestration with runbooks and postmortems.
- Infrastructure MonitoringServer and network monitoring tools for uptime, health checks, and alerts.
- Log ManagementCentralized log collection, storage, and search across servers and applications.