Monitoring & Observability

Errors, metrics, alerting, tracing

4 tasks4 tools

Track errors & exceptions

Monitoring

Sentry

The leading error tracking and performance monitoring platform. Sentry captures exceptions, stack traces, and performance issues in real time across web, mobile, and backend. Essential for any production application.

PythonTypeScriptSaaS

Trust

Excellent

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Collect & query metrics

Monitoring

Prometheus

The de facto open-source metrics collection and alerting system. Prometheus scrapes metrics endpoints, stores time-series data, and evaluates alert rules. The backbone of most Kubernetes observability stacks.

GoOpen SourceSelf-hosted

Trust

Excellent

Compare:vs Grafana

Build monitoring dashboards

Monitoring

Grafana

The leading open-source visualization and dashboarding platform. Grafana connects to Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and 100+ data sources to create rich, interactive dashboards. The visual layer of most observability stacks.

TypeScriptGoOpen Source

Trust

Fair

Compare:vs Prometheus

Set up on-call & alerting

Monitoring

PagerDuty

The leading incident management and on-call scheduling platform. PagerDuty routes alerts from your monitoring tools to the right on-call engineer, manages escalation policies, and tracks incident response.

SaaSPaidREST

Trust

Limited

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