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Monitoring & Observability shortlist: Free tier + Logs / Events

Narrow your monitoring shortlist by budget tolerance, primary signal type, and operational model. A startup running on a free tier has fundamentally different needs than an enterprise spending $10K/month on full-stack observability.

How shortlists work: We match products against your constraints using pricing tiers, team fit, and workload alignment. Verify each against your specific requirements before committing.

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Free tier Logs / Events

2 products match your constraints

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New Relic

Full-stack observability with consumption-based pricing ($0.30/GB after 100GB free/month). Covers APM, infrastructure, logs, and browser monitoring. The most generous free tier in the category.

Teams with many microservices or containers where per-host p… Startups and small teams that need production-grade observab… Organizations with strong .NET or Java applications where Ne…

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Grafana Cloud

Managed observability on open-source foundations (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo). Metrics via PromQL, logs via LogQL, traces via TraceQL. Free tier: 10K active series, 50GB logs/month.

Teams already running Prometheus and Grafana self-hosted tha… Organizations that prioritize data portability and want to a… Cost-conscious teams that need production monitoring at lowe…

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Monthly monitoring budget

Free tier $500-2K/mo $2K+/mo

Primary signal type

Infrastructure metrics APM / Traces Logs / Events

Operational model

Fully managed Hybrid / self-hosted OK