Best Cloud Monitoring in 2026
Updated
Keeping services and infrastructure observable across cloud environments calls for comparing both coverage and monitoring capabilities. Check which cloud providers are supported, whether Kubernetes or serverless monitoring is included, and how long logs and metrics are retained. Synthetic monitoring adds another comparison point, while free-plan availability and paid-from pricing bring access and cost into view. Netdata, Checkmk, and VictoriaMetrics are among the entries, alongside Nagios XI and Grafana Cloud Application Observability. Consider the environments your team needs to monitor and the retention details useful for operations or investigation.
21ranked
9free plans on this page
$0.03/molowest paid tier
9 Oct 2026last checked
Cloud Monitoring, ranked on how quickly a newcomer can get going.16 of 16 products with recorded free access can be tried for free.
- 1 NetdataPaid from $4.50/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 2 CheckmkPaid from $275/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 3 VictoriaMetricsPaid from $200/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 4 MackerelFree plan
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 5 Nagios XIFree plan
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 6 Chronosphere Application Observability
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 7 Grafana Cloud Application ObservabilityPaid from $0.03/mo
- Free to practise on: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 8 Zabbix
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 9 Google Cloud MonitoringPaid from $0.06/mo
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 10 Akamai Cloud LongviewFree plan
- Free to practise on: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 11 PrometheusFree plan
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: no
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: yes
- 12 PixieFree plan
- Free to practise on: yes
- Free trial: no
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 13 Atatus API Analytics
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 14 HostedMetricsPaid from $79/mo
- Free to practise on: no
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 15 MetricFirePaid from $16/mo
- Free to practise on: no
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 16 Komodor
- Free trial: yes
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 17 Sysdig Monitor
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 18 Robusta
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 19 Alibaba CloudMonitor
- Well documented: no
- Runs where you work: yes
- 20 DigitalOcean Monitoring
- Well documented: yes
- Runs where you work: no
- 21 Tencent Cloud Monitor
- Well documented: no
- Runs where you work: no
Compare all 21 in a table
| # | Platform | Score | Free plan | From | Free plan | Paid from | Cloud providers | Metrics retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Netdata | 8.1 | Free plan | $4.50/mo | Yes | 4.5 /mo | ||
| 2 | Checkmk | 8.0 | Free plan | $275/mo | Yes | |||
| 3 | VictoriaMetrics | 8.0 | Free plan | $200/mo | Yes | |||
| 4 | Mackerel | 7.8 | Free plan | Free | Yes | |||
| 5 | Nagios XI | 7.8 | Free plan | Free | Yes | |||
| 6 | Chronosphere Application Observability | 7.6 | ||||||
| 7 | Grafana Cloud Application Observability | 7.5 | Free plan | $0.03/mo | Yes | |||
| 8 | Zabbix | 7.3 | Yes | 50 /mo | ||||
| 9 | Google Cloud Monitoring | 7.2 | $0.06/mo | No | ||||
| 10 | Akamai Cloud Longview | 7.1 | Free plan | Free | Yes | Akamai Cloud | ||
| 11 | Prometheus | 7.0 | Free plan | Free | Yes | |||
| 12 | Pixie | 6.9 | Free plan | Free | AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud | |||
| 13 | Atatus API Analytics | 6.8 | No | AWS, Azure, GCP | ||||
| 14 | HostedMetrics | 6.8 | No | $79/mo | No | 79 /mo | Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform | 730 days |
| 15 | MetricFire | 6.8 | No | $16/mo | No | 19 /mo | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud | |
| 16 | Komodor | 6.6 | No | |||||
| 17 | Sysdig Monitor | 6.5 | AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure | |||||
| 18 | Robusta | 6.3 | AWS, Azure, GCP | |||||
| 19 | Alibaba CloudMonitor | 6.1 | Yes | Alibaba Cloud; other cloud providers supported through Hybrid Cloud Monitoring (providers not individually specified on the cited page) | 15 days | |||
| 20 | DigitalOcean Monitoring | 6.0 | Yes | DigitalOcean | 14 days | |||
| 21 | Tencent Cloud Monitor | 5.6 | Yes | Tencent Cloud |
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