Best Performance Monitoring Products in 2025

Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources.

Key Zabbix features:

Open-source Scalability Comprehensive Monitoring Alerting and Notification

Open Source free

See metrics from all of your apps, tools & services in one place with Datadog's cloud monitoring as a service solution. Try it for free.

Key Datadog features:

Comprehensive Monitoring Integration Ecosystem Scalability Real-Time Data

freemium $15.0 / Monthly (per host)

Monitor all your cloud services with our status page aggregator. IT teams choose IsDown to monitor all their vendors and get alerts whenever an outage occurs. Integration with Datadog, PagerDuty, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and a lot more.

Key IsDown.app features:

Status Dashboard Multiple Profiles for same account Slack App Zapier Integration

Try for free paid Free Trial $37.0 / Monthly (Pro)

Cloud-based quality testing, performance monitoring and analytics for mobile apps and websites. Get started with Keynote today!

Key Dynatrace features:

Comprehensive Monitoring AI-Powered Insights Automatic Dependency Detection Scalability and Flexibility

New Relic is a Software Analytics company that makes sense of billions of metrics across millions of apps. We help the people who build modern software understand the stories their data is trying to tell them.

Key NewRelic features:

Comprehensive Monitoring Real-Time Data Advanced Alerting User-Friendly Interface

An open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.

Key Prometheus features:

Powerful Query Language Dimensional Data Model Auto-Discovery Alerting

Open Source

Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services.

Key Nagios features:

Extensive Community Support Highly Customizable Comprehensive Monitoring Alerting and Notification

Open Source

Get real-time insight from your apps using Application Performance Management—how they’re being used, how they’re performing, where they need help.

Key AppDynamics features:

Comprehensive Monitoring Real-time Analytics Ease of Integration Automated Root Cause Analysis

Data visualization & Monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases.

Key Grafana features:

Customizable Dashboards Wide Range of Data Sources Rich Plugin Ecosystem Open Source

Open Source

LogicMonitor is the SaaS performance monitoring platform for the world's best IT teams. Deploy Fast, Monitor More, Improve Ops.

Key LogicMonitor features:

Comprehensive Monitoring Scalability Ease of Deployment Customizable Dashboards

htop - an interactive process viewer for Unix. This is htop, an interactive process viewer for Unix systems. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. Latest release: htop 2.

Key htop features:

User-friendly Interface Interactive Process Management Customizable Display Resource Usage Meters

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Key Process Explorer features:

Detailed System Information Hierarchical View Advanced Diagnostic Capabilities Real-Time Monitoring

An advanced network monitoring solution to monitor network up/downtime, traffic and usage.

Key Paessler PRTG features:

Comprehensive Monitoring User-Friendly Interface Customization and Flexibility Scalability

Microsoft System Center provides solutions to simplify the deployment, configuration, management, and monitoring of the infrastructure.

Key Microsoft System Center features:

Comprehensive Management Suite Integration with Microsoft Technologies Automation and Orchestration Robust Monitoring