Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Zipkin

The top open-source alternatives to Zipkin are Prometheus, Grafana, and Open Telemetry. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Prometheus Landing Page
1

Prometheus

An open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 225 social mentions
Grafana Landing Page
2

Grafana

Data visualization & Monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Dashboard #Data Visualization #Data Analytics 197 social mentions
Open Telemetry Landing Page
3

Open Telemetry

An observability framework for cloud-native software.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 156 social mentions
Datadog Landing Page
4

Datadog

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.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $15.0 / Monthly (per host)
#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Error Tracking 5 social mentions
SigNoz Landing Page
5

SigNoz

Open source alternative to Datadog
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Open Source #Developer Tools #GitHub 87 social mentions
Zabbix Landing Page
6

Zabbix

Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #DevOps Tools 5 social mentions
Apache SkyWalking Landing Page
7

Apache SkyWalking

Apache SkyWalking is an open-source application performance monitoring solution that provides tracking, metrics analysis, service mesh observability, alarm, and visualization.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Development #Tool #Monitoring Tools 14 social mentions
Kamon.io Landing Page
8

Kamon.io

Kamon makes an instrumentation library and Application Performance Monitoring tool that helps developers find and fix performance issues in microservices. Works best for Scala (Akka, Play, Lagom) and Java.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- €30.0 / Monthly (per service)
#Monitoring Tools #APM #Developer Tools
LightStep Landing Page
9

LightStep

We deliver insights that put organizations back in control of their complex software apps.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Application Performance Monitoring 15 social mentions
Nagios Landing Page
10

Nagios

Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management
Glowroot Landing Page
11

Glowroot

Open source Java APM, licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 1 social mentions
Wazuh Landing Page
12

Wazuh

Open Source Host and Endpoint Security
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Security Information And Event Management (SIEM) #Cyber Security 49 social mentions