Best Application Performance Monitoring in 2026
Updated
Application performance monitoring helps you inspect how software behaves and investigate where transactions slow down or fail. Compared on distributed and transaction tracing, real user monitoring, log correlation and dependency mapping, these options describe different views for following application activity. Middleware, Uptrace and Honeycomb are among the names to consider. Deployment model can help you assess how an offering fits your environment, while free-plan availability and paid-from pricing add cost context. Use the listed capabilities to compare the signals and investigation paths you need, and check whether each option’s deployment and pricing details suit your team.
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15free plans on this page
$0.02/molowest paid tier
11 Oct 2026last checked
Application Performance Monitoring, ranked on how quickly a newcomer can get going.25 of 25 products with recorded free access can be tried for free.
- 1 MiddlewarePaid from $0.30/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 2 UptracePaid from $39/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 3 HoneycombPaid from $150/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 4 SigNozPaid from $19/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 5 groundcoverPaid from $30/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 6 Scout APMPaid from $10/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 7 SkylightPaid from $20/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 8 AppSignalPaid from $23.25/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 9 Chronosphere Application Observability
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 10 Grafana Cloud Application ObservabilityPaid from $0.03/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 11 Elastic Observability
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 12 New Relic Kubernetes MonitoringPaid from $29.08/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 13 Apache SkyWalkingFree plan
- Free to practise on: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 14 Dynatrace Application MonitoringPaid from $58/mo
- Free to practise on: no
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 15 ManageEngine Applications ManagerPaid from $32.92/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 16 Raygun Application Performance MonitoringPaid from $120/mo
- Free to practise on: no
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 17 Sematext APMPaid from $19/mo
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 18 JaegerFree plan
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: no
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 19 RoRvsWildPaid from €400/mo
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 20 SolarWinds ObservabilityPaid from $5/mo
- Free to practise on: no
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 21 New Relic Session ReplayPaid from $10/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 22 eG EnterprisePaid from $100/mo
- Free to practise on: no
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 23 New Relic APMPaid from $10/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 24 Coralogix APMPaid from $0.16/mo
- Free to practise on: no
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 25 Dash0Paid from $0.02/mo
- Free to practise on: no
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
Compare all 25 in a table
| # | Platform | Score | Free plan | From | Free plan | Paid from | Distributed tracing | Transaction tracing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middleware | 8.1 | Free plan | $0.30/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2 | Uptrace | 8.0 | Free plan | $39/mo | Yes | 39 /mo | Yes | Yes |
| 3 | Honeycomb | 7.8 | Free plan | $150/mo | Yes | 150 /mo | Yes | Yes |
| 4 | SigNoz | 7.8 | Free plan | $19/mo | Yes | 49 /mo | Yes | Yes |
| 5 | groundcover | 7.7 | Free plan | $30/mo | Yes | 30 /mo | Yes | Yes |
| 6 | Scout APM | 7.7 | Free plan | $10/mo | Yes | 19 /mo | No | Yes |
| 7 | Skylight | 7.7 | Free plan | $20/mo | Yes | Yes | ||
| 8 | AppSignal | 7.6 | Free plan | $23.25/mo | Yes | 23.25 /mo | Yes | Yes |
| 9 | Chronosphere Application Observability | 7.6 | No | Yes | Yes | |||
| 10 | Grafana Cloud Application Observability | 7.4 | Free plan | $0.03/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 11 | Elastic Observability | 7.3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| 12 | New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring | 7.3 | Free plan | $29.08/mo | Yes | Yes | ||
| 13 | Apache SkyWalking | 7.2 | Free plan | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 14 | Dynatrace Application Monitoring | 7.1 | No | $58/mo | No | 7 /mo | Yes | Yes |
| 15 | ManageEngine Applications Manager | 7.1 | Free plan | $32.92/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 16 | Raygun Application Performance Monitoring | 7.1 | No | $120/mo | No | 80 /mo | Yes | |
| 17 | Sematext APM | 7.1 | $19/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 18 | Jaeger | 7.0 | Free plan | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 19 | RoRvsWild | 7.0 | €400/mo | Yes | Yes | |||
| 20 | SolarWinds Observability | 7.0 | No | $5/mo | No | 8 /mo | Yes | Yes |
| 21 | New Relic Session Replay | 6.9 | Free plan | $10/mo | Yes | Yes | ||
| 22 | eG Enterprise | 6.8 | No | $100/mo | No | 100 /mo | Yes | Yes |
| 23 | New Relic APM | 6.8 | Free plan | $10/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 24 | Coralogix APM | 6.7 | No | $0.16/mo | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 25 | Dash0 | 6.7 | No | $0.02/mo | No | Yes | Yes |
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