Open-source alternatives to Datadog
2 open-source and self-hostable projects you can use instead of Datadog, with license, free-edition limits and setup checked against official sources.
- GrafanaAlternative to Datadog, New Relic
A dashboard and visualization tool that queries many data sources such as Prometheus, with a commercial Enterprise edition and a hosted Grafana Cloud.
AGPL-3.0Self-hostedCloud77kGitHub starsSome features paywalled - PrometheusAlternative to New Relic, Datadog
A metrics monitoring and alerting system that stores time series locally and is queried with PromQL; a CNCF graduated project.
Apache-2.0Self-hosted66kGitHub starsNot yet assessed
- Grafana — Grafana can replace Datadog's dashboards and alerting when you run your own metrics and log stores, though you must set up the data collection yourself.
- Prometheus — Prometheus can replace Datadog's metrics collection, querying and alerting when you run it yourself, but it does not cover logs, traces or a hosted UI.