You can use grafana which contains APM, logs, metrics and alerting with a free tier for tiny projects. But honestly if you get 10 requests, you likely don't need APM and if you need APM, you should be getting at least $50/mth from your service.
Or just host the grafana (or different) stack yourself.
Grafana sucks imo. Their UI is bad, it takes time to setup. It's very difficult to maintain it all together. There should be a free alternative. I'm surprised there is literally no free alternative to Datadog.
Check out kloudmate.com. Delivers everything Datadog or NewRelic do, at a fraction of the time, complexity, or cost.
Currently also offers free AI-powered anomaly detection and RCA, along with a full-scale Incident Management module.
You are expecting high quality and free, and unwilling to pay $50/month. Is this crazy? It’s certainly unrealistic.
You can use grafana which contains APM, logs, metrics and alerting with a free tier for tiny projects. But honestly if you get 10 requests, you likely don't need APM and if you need APM, you should be getting at least $50/mth from your service.
Or just host the grafana (or different) stack yourself.
Grafana sucks imo. Their UI is bad, it takes time to setup. It's very difficult to maintain it all together. There should be a free alternative. I'm surprised there is literally no free alternative to Datadog.
> Grafana sucks imo. Their UI is bad, it takes time to setup. It's very difficult to maintain it all together.
You want free and easy and polished experience.
Grafana works fine. If you want something better than that, you'll have to pay for it or create it yourself.
Sentry has a different but overlapping feature-set as DataDog and has a free tier.
What specific features are you looking for where there is no alternative? There are a lot of tools for monitoring.
APM, logs, metrics and alerting all on a single pane of glass.
Newrelic has pretty generous free tier