Best Telemetry Software

Grafana Labs provides an open and composable observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Recognized as a 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Observability Platforms and positioned furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision, Grafana Labs supports over 25M users and 5,000+ customers—including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom. The LGTM Stack combines Grafana for visualization, Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for traces. Grafana Cloud, the fully managed offering, accelerates time to value with turnkey solutions for Kubernetes monitoring, incident response, load testing, and more. It features Adaptive Metrics for cost-efficient data aggregation and native OpenTelemetry support. Built on open standards, Grafana empowers teams to visualize and correlate data from any source—without vendor lock-in—whether self-managed or in the cloud. Grafana Cloud scales with you, securely.

Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.

The Dynatrace software intelligence platform. Transform faster with unparalleled observability, automation, and intelligence in one platform. Leave the bag of tools behind, with one platform to automate your dynamic multicloud and align multiple teams. Spark collaboration between biz, dev, and ops with the broadest set of purpose-built use cases in one place. Harness and unify even the most complex dynamic multiclouds, with out-of-the box support for all major cloud platforms and technologies. Get a broader view of your environment. One that includes metrics, logs, and traces, as well as a full topological model with distributed tracing, code-level detail, entity relationships, and even user experience and behavioral data – all in context. Weave Dynatrace’s open API into your existing ecosystem to drive automation in everything from development and releases to cloud ops and business processes.

Splunk AppDynamics delivers full-stack observability for hybrid and on-prem environments, linking technical performance directly to business outcomes. It enables teams to detect anomalies, diagnose root causes, and prioritize issues based on their real business impact. With capabilities ranging from network performance correlation to SAP system optimization, the platform offers deep insights across applications, APIs, and infrastructure. Its runtime security features safeguard applications by detecting vulnerabilities, blocking attacks, and highlighting potential risks. AppDynamics also enhances digital experiences with web, mobile, and synthetic monitoring to understand user journeys. By unifying performance, security, and business analytics, Splunk AppDynamics helps enterprises reduce costs, prevent outages, and deliver seamless customer experiences.

Elastic is a search company. As the creators of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), Elastic builds self-managed and SaaS offerings that make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases. Elastic's global community has more than 100,000 members across 45 countries. Since its initial release, Elastic's products have achieved more than 400 million cumulative downloads. Today thousands of organizations, including Cisco, eBay, Dell, Goldman Sachs, Groupon, HP, Microsoft, Netflix, The New York Times, Uber, Verizon, Yelp, and Wikipedia, use the Elastic Stack, and Elastic Cloud to power mission-critical systems that drive new revenue opportunities and massive cost savings. Elastic has headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Mountain View, California; and has over 1,000 employees in more than 35 countries around the world.

IBM Instana is the gold standard of incident prevention with automated full-stack visibility, 1-second granularity and 3 seconds to notify. With today’s highly dynamic and complex cloud environments, the average cost of an hour of downtime can reach six figures and beyond. Traditional application performance monitoring (APM) tools simply aren’t fast enough to keep up or thorough enough to contextualize the issues identified. Also, they are typically limited to super users who must complete months of training to learn. IBM Instana Observability goes beyond traditional APM solutions by democratizing observability so anyone across DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, ITOps and development can get the data they want with the context they need. Instana Dynamic APM operates using the Instana agent architecture, which incorporates sensors—lightweight, automated programs tailored to monitor specific entities.

Turn data into answers with Splunk deployed and managed securely, reliably and scalably as a service. With your IT backend managed by our Splunk experts, you can focus on acting on your data. Splunk-provisioned and managed infrastructure delivers a turnkey, cloud-based data analytics solution. Go live in as little as two days. Managed software upgrades ensure you always have the latest functionality. Tap into the value of your data in days with fewer requirements to turn data into action. Splunk Cloud meets the FedRAMP security standards, and helps U.S. federal agencies and their partners drive confident decisions and decisive actions at mission speeds. Drive productivity and contextual insights with Splunk’s mobile apps, augmented reality and natural language capabilities. Extend the utility of your Splunk solutions to any location with a simple phrase or the tap of a finger. From infrastructure management to data compliance, Splunk Cloud is built to scale.

VirtualMetric is a powerful telemetry pipeline solution designed to enhance data collection, processing, and security monitoring across enterprise environments. Its core offering, DataStream, automatically collects and transforms security logs from a wide range of systems such as Windows, Linux, MacOS, and Unix, enriching data for further analysis. By reducing data volume and filtering out non-meaningful logs, VirtualMetric helps businesses lower SIEM ingestion costs, increase operational efficiency, and improve threat detection accuracy. The platform’s scalable architecture, with features like zero data loss and long-term compliance storage, ensures that businesses can maintain high security standards while optimizing performance.

Cribl Stream allows you to implement an observability pipeline which helps you parse, restructure, and enrich data in flight - before you pay to analyze it. Get the right data, where you want, in the formats you need. Route data to the best tool for the job - or all the tools for the job - by translating and formatting data into any tooling schema you require. Let different departments choose different analytics environments without having to deploy new agents or forwarders. As much as 50% of log and metric data goes unused – null fields, duplicate data, and fields that offer zero analytical value. With Cribl Stream, you can trim wasted data streams and analyze only what you need. Cribl Stream is the best way to get multiple data formats into the tools you trust for your Security and IT efforts. Use the Cribl Stream universal receiver to collect from any machine data source - and even to schedule batch collection from REST APIs, Kinesis Firehose, Raw HTTP, and Microsoft Office 365 APIs

Power your metrics and alerting with a leading open-source monitoring solution. Prometheus fundamentally stores all data as time series: streams of timestamped values belonging to the same metric and the same set of labeled dimensions. Besides stored time series, Prometheus may generate temporary derived time series as the result of queries. Prometheus provides a functional query language called PromQL (Prometheus Query Language) that lets the user select and aggregate time series data in real time. The result of an expression can either be shown as a graph, viewed as tabular data in Prometheus's expression browser, or consumed by external systems via the HTTP API. Prometheus is configured via command-line flags and a configuration file. While the command-line flags configure immutable system parameters (such as storage locations, amount of data to keep on disk and in memory, etc.). Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/prometheus.mirror/

Phoenix is an open-source observability library designed for experimentation, evaluation, and troubleshooting. It allows AI engineers and data scientists to quickly visualize their data, evaluate performance, track down issues, and export data to improve. Phoenix is built by Arize AI, the company behind the industry-leading AI observability platform, and a set of core contributors. Phoenix works with OpenTelemetry and OpenInference instrumentation. The main Phoenix package is arize-phoenix. We offer several helper packages for specific use cases. Our semantic layer is to add LLM telemetry to OpenTelemetry. Automatically instrumenting popular packages. Phoenix's open-source library supports tracing for AI applications, via manual instrumentation or through integrations with LlamaIndex, Langchain, OpenAI, and others. LLM tracing records the paths taken by requests as they propagate through multiple steps or components of an LLM application.

Send your datapoints with the industry standard protocol for IoT and telemetry data. We keep all your data down to the last millisecond, powering your high resolution applications. Our system ensures at least once processing with data deduplication along the way. We stream and process all the data continuously, ensuring you get your results as soon as they are available. Our data exploration module allows you to query all your data and to slice and dice it to find all the answers you are seeking.

DataBahn.ai is redefining how enterprises manage the explosion of security and operational data in the AI era. Our AI-powered data pipeline and fabric platform helps organizations securely collect, enrich, orchestrate, and optimize enterprise data—including security, application, observability, and IoT/OT telemetry—for analytics, automation, and AI. With native support for over 400 integrations and built-in enrichment capabilities, DataBahn streamlines fragmented data workflows and reduces SIEM and infrastructure costs from day one. The platform requires no specialist training, enabling security and IT teams to extract insights in real time and adapt quickly to new demands. We've helped Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies reduce data processing costs by over 50% and automate more than 80% of their data engineering workloads.

​Tenzir is a data pipeline engine specifically designed for security teams, facilitating the collection, transformation, enrichment, and routing of security data throughout its lifecycle. It enables users to seamlessly gather data from various sources, parse unstructured data into structured formats, and transform it as needed. It optimizes data volume, reduces costs, and supports mapping to standardized schemas like OCSF, ASIM, and ECS. Tenzir ensures compliance through data anonymization features and enriches data by adding context from threats, assets, and vulnerabilities. It supports real-time detection and stores data efficiently in Parquet format within object storage systems. Users can rapidly search and materialize necessary data and reactivate at-rest data back into motion. Tension is built for flexibility, allowing deployment as code and integration into existing workflows, ultimately aiming to reduce SIEM costs and provide full control.