Cloud Monitoring Software

$10-349/user/month

• Free: 100GB data, 1 full platform user
• Standard: $10 first user + $99 additional users (max 5)
• Pro: $349/user/year (unlimited users)
• Enterprise: Custom pricing
• Data ingestion: $0.35/GB (Standard) or $0.55/GB (Data Plus)
• Pricing page: https://newrelic.com/pricing

$6-429/CPU core/month

• Infrastructure Monitoring: $6/CPU core/month
• Premium Edition: $33/CPU core/month
• Enterprise Edition: $90/CPU core/month
• Advanced Edition APM: $429/CPU core/month
• Pricing page: Contact for custom quote

$0.001-0.20 per unit (consumption-based)

• Full-Stack Monitoring: $0.08/hour/8GB host
• Infrastructure Monitoring: $0.04/hour/host
• Real User Monitoring: $0.00225/session
• Synthetic Monitoring: $0.001/synthetic request
• Log Management: $0.20/GiB ingestion
• Pricing page: https://www.dynatrace.com/pricing/
• Annual minimum commitment required (~$2,000/month)

$15-70/host/month + usage-based fees

• Infrastructure Monitoring: $15/host/month
• APM: $31/host/month
• Database Monitoring: $70/database host/month
• Real User Monitoring: $1.50/1,000 sessions
• Log Management: Usage-based pricing
• Pricing page: https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/

Cloud: From $95/month. Self-Managed: Free basic tier + paid commercial licenses.

• Cloud Standard: $95/month (Basic APM features, distributed tracing)
• Cloud Platinum: $125/month (ML anomaly detection, advanced security)
• Cloud Enterprise: $175/month (Full APM capabilities with AI Assistant)
• Self-Managed (Free): APM Server, agents, distributed tracing, service maps
• Self-Managed (Commercial): ML, advanced analytics require Platinum/Enterprise license ($7,200+/node/year)
• Pricing page: https://www.elastic.co/observability/application-performance-monitoring

Free tier + usage-based pricing

• Free tier: 10 custom metrics, 1M API requests, 5GB log ingestion
• Custom metrics: $0.30/metric/month (first 10,000)
• Log ingestion: $0.50/GB
• API requests: $0.01/1,000 requests
• Pricing page: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/

Consumption-based pricing

• Log Analytics: Pay-per-GB ingested and retained
• Metrics: Free for standard metrics
• Alerts: Based on signal type and frequency
• Pricing page: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/monitor/

$0.2580/MiB + alert pricing starting 2026

• Monitoring data: $0.258/MiB (first 150-100k MiB)
• Prometheus metrics: $0.06/million samples
• Alert pricing (starting May 2026): $0.10/month per condition
• Pricing page: https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/pricing

$19/month per $1k AWS spend

• Usage-based pricing tied to AWS spend
• Additional charges for spend over contract
• AWS Marketplace: Available with various contract options
• Website: https://www.cloudzero.com

$1,000-2,000/month + custom enterprise

• Business: $1,000/month (2 cost centers)
• Pro: $2,000/month (3 cost centers)
• Enterprise: Custom pricing (unlimited)
• Pricing page: https://www.finout.io/pricing

2.2-2.5% of managed cloud spend

• 12-month contract: 2.5% of tracked spend
• 36-month contract: 2.2% of tracked spend
• Minimum annual fees: $45,000-150,000 depending on tier

$50,000/year for $1M cloud spend (5%)

• 12-month: $50,000 (up to $1M annual cloud spend)
• 24-month: $100,000
• 36-month: $150,000
• Overages: $0.01 per dollar over $1M limit

Free (Open Source)

• License: GPL v2 (versions before 7.0), AGPLv3 (version 7.0+)
• Pricing page: https://www.zabbix.com/true_open_source
• Note: Completely free software with no licensing fees. Optional paid support and professional services available

$1,995 - $25,990 (one-time license)

• 50 nodes: $1,995
• 100 nodes: $2,495
• 500 nodes: $7,995
• 1000 nodes: $14,495
• Unlimited nodes: $23,995
• Pricing page: https://www.nagios.com/pricing-plans/
• Enterprise plans available with higher pricing and additional features

$179 - $1,492/month (annual billing)

• 500 sensors: $179/month
• 1000 sensors: $325/month
• 2500 sensors: $675/month
• 5000 sensors: $1,183/month
• 10000 sensors: $1,492/month
• Pricing page: https://www.paessler.com/pricing
• Free version: Up to 100 sensors

$6/node/month (starting price)

• Monitoring & Observability: Starts at $6/node/month
• Database Observability: Starts at $117/database/month
• Service Management: Starts at $39/technician/month
• Pricing page: https://www.solarwinds.com/pricing
• Element-based licensing model with significant cost escalation for large deployments

Contact for pricing (estimated $2-5/server/month)

• Subscription-based pricing
• Significantly cheaper than competitors
• Pricing page: https://store.manageengine.com/opmanager/
• Free version available with limited features

$1,800-18,000/year (1-10GB/day)

• Data volume-based pricing: Starting ~$1,800 for 1GB/day
• Enterprise deployment (500GB/day): $400,000-800,000 first year
• Free version: 500MB/day limit
• Pricing page: https://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/pricing.html

Cloud: From $95/month or usage-based. Self-Managed: Free tier + commercial licenses ($7,200+/year).

• Cloud Standard: $95/month (Core features, security, alerting)
• Cloud Platinum: $125/month (Adds ML, advanced security, cross-cluster replication)
• Cloud Serverless: Usage-based (pay-as-you-go for ingest, search, storage)
• Self-Managed (Free): Basic features available (no ML, security, or alerting)
• Self-Managed Platinum License: ~$7,200/node/year
• Pricing page: https://www.elastic.co/pricing

Free (Open Source)

• License: Apache 2.0
• Self-hosted: Infrastructure costs only
• Website: https://www.fluentd.org

Consumption-based pricing

• AWS Marketplace: $1.13/GB (includes ingestion, indexing, retention)
• Volume discounts available
• Pricing page: https://logz.io/pricing/

Free tier + usage-based pricing

• Free: 10k metrics, 50GB logs/traces, 3 users
• Metrics: $6.50/1k series beyond free tier
• Logs/Traces/Profiles: $0.50/GB ingested
• Visualization: $8/active user ($55 with Enterprise plugins)
• Pricing page: https://grafana.com/pricing/

Free (Open Source)

• License: Apache 2.0
• Self-hosted: Infrastructure costs only
• AWS Managed Service: $0.30/million samples + $0.03/GB-month storage
• Pricing page: https://prometheus.io

Free (Open Source)

• License: Apache 2.0
• Self-hosted: Infrastructure costs only
• Website: https://www.jaegertracing.io

Free + $130-Custom/month

• Free: Up to 20M events/month
• Pro: Starting at $130/month (up to 1.5B events)
• Enterprise: Custom pricing
• Telemetry Collection: Starting at $0.10/GB
• Pricing page: https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing

Free tier + $0.30/GB usage-based

• Free: 100GB/month
• Pay-as-you-go: $0.30/GB for logs, APM, infrastructure
• No tier lock-ins or user restrictions
• Pricing page: https://middleware.io/pricing/

$24,000-354,350/year

• Wiz Essential: $24,000/year (100 workloads)
• Wiz Advanced: $38,000/year (100 workloads)
• Wiz Code add-on: $58,500/year (100 units)
• Median cost: $111,500/year
• Pricing page: https://www.wiz.io/pricing

$90-180/month (unit-based)

• Business Edition: $90/unit/month
• Enterprise Edition: $180/unit/month
• Annual contracts required
• Pricing varies by cloud spend and requirements

Custom pricing (contact required)

• Dev Security: Trial available
• Cloud Security: Trial available
• Pricing varies by deployment size and requirements
• Pricing page: https://www.aquasec.com/pricing/

API checks: $2/10k runs. Browser checks: $5/1k runs. Uptime monitors from $0.40/month.

• API Check Runs: $2 per 10,000 runs
• Browser Check Runs: $5 per 1,000 runs
• Browser Check Overages: $6.50 per 1,000 runs
• Uptime Monitor: $0.40/month for a 30-second frequency check
• Monitoring as Code support is included for automation
• A free trial is available

API tests: $5 per 10,000 runs/month. Browser tests: $12 per 1,000 runs/month.

• API Tests: $5 per 10,000 test runs per month
• Browser Tests: $12 per 1,000 test runs per month
• Billing is based on the number of test executions
• Cost increases with test frequency and number of locations
• Browser tests cost more than API tests
• Annual billing and volume discounts are available

$50,000/year for $1M cloud spend (5%)

• 12-month: $50,000 (up to $1M annual cloud spend)
• 24-month: $100,000
• 36-month: $150,000
• Overages: $0.01 per dollar over $1M limit

$10-830/month (annual billing)

• Tier 1: $10/month (10 checks)
• Tier 2: $25/month (25 checks)
• Tier 5: $185/month (200 checks)
• Tier 10: $830/month (1,000 checks)
• Pricing page: https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/

Free + $7-58/month

• Free: 50 monitors, 5-minute intervals
• Pro: $7/month (20 monitors, 1-minute intervals)
• Business: $15/month (50 monitors)
• Enterprise: $58/month (300 monitors)
• Pricing page: https://uptimerobot.com/pricing/

$9-89/month

• Starter: $9/month (10 monitors)
• Pro: $35/month (40 monitors, 3 applications)
• Classic: $89/month (estimated for 50 servers)
• Pricing page: https://www.site24x7.com/site24x7-pricing.html

Usage-based synthetic monitoring

• Approximately half the cost of Datadog Synthetics
• API checks: More cost-effective than competitors
• Browser checks: Comprehensive Playwright support
• Pricing page: https://www.checklyhq.com/pricing/

Free + $20-67/month

• Free: 10 monitors, 5-minute intervals
• Superior: $20/month (100 monitors, 1-minute intervals)
• Business: $67/month (300 monitors, 30-second intervals)
• Pricing page: https://www.statuscake.com/pricing/