Middleware

Middleware is ranked #1 of 49 in Kubernetes monitoring on The Geeks Club. It runs on Android, API, iOS, Linux, macOS, Web, Windows. There is a free plan. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at $0.30/mo.

Middleware plans and pricing

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Free Forever Free Up to 100GB data · Up to 1k RUM sessions · Up to 20k synthetic checks · 10 browser test runs · 2 million OpsAI tokens · Unlimited users · Community based support · 14 day retention middleware.io · 30 Sept 2026

Pay As You Go $0.30/mo Pay only for what you use $1 per 1K RUM sessions · $1 per 5K synthetic checks · $10 per 1K browser test runs · Default 30 day retention · SSO and security features · Dedicated Slack/MS Teams channel middleware.io · 30 Sept 2026

BYOC Not published Volume discounts · Dedicated account team · Multi-year contract discounts · Custom data retention · Bring your own cloud · 24x7 support middleware.io · 30 Sept 2026

Compared on Kubernetes monitoring

Free plan: Yes
Distributed tracing: Yes
Transaction tracing: Yes
Dependency mapping: Yes
Real user monitoring: Yes
Log correlation: Yes
Deployment model: hybrid

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Middleware

Product: Middleware describes itself as a full-stack observability platform that detects issues across infrastructure, APM, and real user monitoring and helps resolve them with its AI SRE Agent.
Product coverage: Its listed products include infrastructure monitoring, logs, APM, metrics, distributed tracing, database monitoring, RUM, synthetic monitoring, browser testing, and LLM observability.
OpsAI: The pricing page lists root cause analysis, automatic issue detection, faster issue solving, and automatic PR generation as OpsAI capabilities.
Data limits: The Free Forever plan includes up to 100GB of data, 1k RUM sessions, 20k synthetic checks, 10 browser test runs, and 2 million OpsAI tokens.
Retention: The pricing FAQ states that free tier data retention is 14 days, pay-as-you-go retention is 30 days, and custom contracts have custom retention rates.
API: Middleware's documentation lists a Public API and links to API documentation.
Security: Middleware says customer data is encrypted at rest and in transit using TLS 1.2+ and AES-256.
Security practices: Its security page says it conducts regular penetration testing and vulnerability assessments and uses network firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention, and traffic filtering.
Support: The Free Forever plan includes community based support, while BYOC includes 24x7 support and a dedicated account team.
Cancellation: Middleware says pay-as-you-go accounts can be cancelled anytime and data is retained for 30 days after cancellation for download.
Audience: Middleware says its mission is to empower organizations of all sizes to modernize their infrastructure stack with observability tools.
Founded: 2022
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Price from: $0.30/mo

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Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best Kubernetes Monitoring in 2026#1 of 49
Best DevOps Analytics Software in 2026#2 of 47
Best Container Monitoring in 2026#4 of 45
Best Application Performance Monitoring in 2026#1 of 31
Best Continuous Profiling Tools in 2026#2 of 27
Best Observability Platforms in 2026#2 of 25
Best Real User Monitoring in 2026#3 of 25
Best Mobile App Monitoring in 2026#3 of 22

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middleware.io· checked 30 Sept 2026
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docs.middleware.io· checked 30 Sept 2026
middleware.io/security/· checked 30 Sept 2026
middleware.io/about-us/· checked 30 Sept 2026