Grafana
Monitoring & StatusOpen observability dashboards and visualization
Replaces Datadog
Best Kubernetes Monitoring & Status for self-hosting
The 51 best Kubernetes monitoring & status you can self-host, ranked by community traction.
Prometheus
Monitoring & StatusMetrics-based monitoring and alerting toolkit
Replaces Datadog
InfluxDB
Monitoring & StatusPurpose-built time series database for metrics and events
Replaces Datadog, AWS Timestream
Grafana Loki
Monitoring & StatusLog aggregation system inspired by Prometheus
Replaces Splunk, Datadog Logs
Apache SkyWalking
Monitoring & StatusAPM and observability for cloud-native architectures
Replaces New Relic, Datadog
Jaeger
Monitoring & StatusEnd-to-end distributed tracing for microservices
Replaces Datadog APM, New Relic
Vector
Monitoring & StatusHigh-performance observability data pipeline
Replaces Logstash, Fluentd
Kibana
Monitoring & StatusVisualization and exploration for Elasticsearch data
Replaces Splunk, Datadog
cAdvisor
Monitoring & StatusContainer resource usage and performance analysis
Replaces Datadog
Telegraf
Monitoring & StatusPlugin-driven server agent for collecting metrics
Replaces Datadog Agent
VictoriaMetrics
Monitoring & StatusFast, cost-effective time series database and monitoring solution
Replaces Datadog, Grafana Cloud
Logstash
Monitoring & StatusServer-side data processing pipeline for logs
Replaces Fluentd
Thanos
Monitoring & StatusHighly available Prometheus setup with long-term storage
Replaces Datadog, Grafana Cloud
OpenSearch
Monitoring & StatusSearch and observability suite with logs and dashboards
Replaces Elasticsearch, Splunk
Node Exporter
Monitoring & StatusPrometheus exporter for hardware and OS metrics
Replaces Datadog Agent
Fluentd
Monitoring & StatusUnified logging layer for collecting and routing data
Replaces Logstash
Grafana Pyroscope
Monitoring & StatusContinuous profiling for finding performance bottlenecks
Replaces Datadog Profiler
HyperDX
Monitoring & StatusOpen-source observability for logs, traces, and session replay
Replaces Datadog, Sentry
Alertmanager
Monitoring & StatusHandles alerts from Prometheus with routing and silencing
Replaces PagerDuty, Opsgenie
Fluent Bit
Monitoring & StatusLightweight and fast logs and metrics processor
Replaces Logstash
Coroot
Monitoring & StatuseBPF-based observability with automatic insights
Replaces Datadog, New Relic
OpenTelemetry Collector
Monitoring & StatusVendor-agnostic agent for telemetry collection and export
Replaces Datadog Agent
Blackbox Exporter
Monitoring & StatusProbes endpoints over HTTP, TCP, DNS, and ICMP
Replaces Pingdom
Cortex
Monitoring & StatusHorizontally scalable, multi-tenant Prometheus as a service
Replaces Datadog, Grafana Cloud
Grafana Tempo
Monitoring & StatusEasy-to-operate, high-scale distributed tracing backend
Replaces Datadog APM
Grafana Mimir
Monitoring & StatusScalable long-term storage for Prometheus metrics
Replaces Datadog, Chronosphere
Parca
Monitoring & StatusContinuous profiling with eBPF whole-system insight
Replaces Datadog Profiler
Uptrace
Monitoring & StatusOpenTelemetry-based tracing, metrics, and logs tool
Replaces Datadog, New Relic
mtail
Monitoring & StatusExtract Prometheus metrics from application log files
Replaces Splunk, Datadog Log Metrics
Redis Exporter
Monitoring & StatusPrometheus exporter for Redis server and cluster metrics
Replaces Datadog Redis, RedisInsight
PostgreSQL Exporter
Monitoring & StatusPrometheus exporter for PostgreSQL server metrics
Replaces Datadog PostgreSQL, pganalyze
Grafana Alloy
Monitoring & StatusOpenTelemetry collector distribution for all telemetry
Replaces Datadog Agent
Pushgateway
Monitoring & StatusPush acceptor for ephemeral and batch job metrics
Replaces Datadog
Robusta
Monitoring & StatusKubernetes observability and automated troubleshooting
Replaces Datadog, PagerDuty
Kafka Exporter
Monitoring & StatusPrometheus exporter for Apache Kafka brokers and consumer lag
Replaces Confluent Control Center, Datadog Kafka
Perses
Monitoring & StatusOpen dashboard tool and visualization standard for metrics
Replaces Grafana
MySQL Server Exporter
Monitoring & StatusOfficial Prometheus exporter for MySQL and MariaDB
Replaces Datadog MySQL, VividCortex
VictoriaLogs
Monitoring & StatusFast and resource-efficient open-source log database
Replaces Splunk, Elasticsearch
Kuberhealthy
Monitoring & StatusSynthetic monitoring and health checks for Kubernetes
Replaces Datadog
SNMP Exporter
Monitoring & StatusPrometheus exporter for SNMP-enabled network devices
Replaces SolarWinds
Grafana Beyla
Monitoring & StatusZero-code eBPF auto-instrumentation for application metrics
Replaces Datadog APM, New Relic
Elasticsearch Exporter
Monitoring & StatusPrometheus exporter for Elasticsearch cluster metrics
Replaces Elastic Stack Monitoring, Datadog Elasticsearch
NGINX Prometheus Exporter
Monitoring & StatusOfficial Prometheus exporter for NGINX and NGINX Plus
Replaces Datadog NGINX, New Relic NGINX
Sensu Go
Monitoring & StatusMonitoring as code pipeline for cloud and bare metal
Replaces Datadog, PagerDuty
Percona Monitoring and Management
Monitoring & StatusDatabase performance monitoring for MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
Replaces Datadog Database Monitoring, SolarWinds DPA
Smokeping Prober
Monitoring & StatusPrometheus exporter that probes latency like Smokeping
Replaces SmokePing, PingPlotter
PHP-FPM Exporter
Monitoring & StatusPrometheus exporter for PHP-FPM process pool metrics
Replaces New Relic PHP, Datadog APM
Cloudprober
Monitoring & StatusActive probing for distributed systems and network reliability
Replaces Pingdom, Catchpoint
Ping Exporter
Monitoring & StatusPrometheus exporter for ICMP ping round-trip metrics
Replaces PingPlotter, ThousandEyes
SQL Exporter
Monitoring & StatusDatabase-agnostic Prometheus exporter driven by custom queries
Replaces Datadog Custom Metrics, New Relic Query Insights
Apache Exporter
Monitoring & StatusPrometheus exporter for Apache HTTP Server metrics
Replaces Datadog Apache, New Relic Apache
No apps match these filters.
At a glance
| App | Deploy effort | Difficulty | Min. RAM | License | ★ Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grafana | ≈5-minute setup | Medium | 512 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 77,299 |
| Prometheus | ≈5-minute setup | Medium | 512 MB | Apache-2.0 | 66,539 |
| InfluxDB | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | MIT | 31,763 |
| Grafana Loki | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 29,011 |
| Apache SkyWalking | Under-an-hour setup | Hard | 2,048 MB | Apache-2.0 | 24,968 |
| Jaeger | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | Apache-2.0 | 23,293 |
| Vector | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 64 MB | MPL-2.0 | 22,697 |
| Kibana | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 1,024 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 21,311 |
| cAdvisor | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 64 MB | Apache-2.0 | 19,478 |
| Telegraf | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 64 MB | MIT | 17,856 |
Quick picks
- Most adopted: Grafana (77,299 GitHub stars).
- Lightest footprint: Node Exporter (from 32 MB RAM, against 2,048 MB for the heaviest here).
- Fastest to deploy: Grafana (verified single-container compose).
- Licensing: 33 of 51 use Apache-2.0; check the rest individually if you plan to modify and redistribute.
Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Kubernetes within the monitoring & status category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.