Alternatives to Jaeger

Ordered by how much they overlap with Jaeger, then by score.

Alternatives, ranked

  1. Grafana

    Dashboard and visualization platform for metrics, logs and traces from many data sources.

    • Higher score
    • No shared features
    Updated 51 days ago
    97 81.1 = Compare
  2. Prometheus

    Monitoring system and time-series database that scrapes metrics and evaluates alerting rules.

    • Higher score
    • No shared features
    Updated 59 days ago
    115 80.0 = Compare
  3. Loki

    Log aggregation system that indexes labels instead of full text, queried with LogQL.

    • Released more recently
    • Higher score
    • Runs on more platforms
    • No shared features
    Updated 49 days ago
    125 79.6 = Compare
  4. Uptime Kuma

    Easy-to-use self-hosted monitoring tool with real-time status pages and incident alerts.

    • Released more recently
    • Runs on more platforms
    • No shared features
    Updated 50 days ago
    145 77.6 = Compare
  5. OpenTelemetry Collector

    Vendor-neutral service that receives, processes and exports traces, metrics and logs.

    • Released more recently
    • Runs on more platforms
    • No shared features
    Updated 50 days ago
    152 77.1 = Compare
  6. Datadog

    Cloud-scale observability and security platform integrating infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management and synthetics.

    • Runs on more platforms
    • No shared features
    No dated release history published
    316 40.0 = Compare
  7. Grafana Cloud

    Fully managed observability platform unifying Prometheus metrics, Loki logs, Tempo traces and operational dashboards.

    • Runs on more platforms
    • No shared features
    No dated release history published
    572 34.0 = Compare
  8. UptimeRobot

    UptimeRobot monitors websites and services for downtime and sends alerts through Slack, email, SMS and other integrations.

    • Runs on more platforms
    • No shared features
    No dated release history published
    687 34.0 = Compare