Datadog
Up to 5 hosts
free hosts
15 months
metrics retention
Yes (50,000 span events/mo free)
apm
Yes (separate pricing, $0.10/GB ingested)
log management
Multi-condition, composite monitors
alerts
Free; Pro from $15/host/mo
pricing
Grafana Cloud
Unlimited (up to 10K metrics series)
free hosts
13 months (free tier)
metrics retention
Yes, Grafana Tempo (50GB traces free)
apm
Yes, Grafana Loki (50GB free)
log management
Unified alerting with Grafana
alerts
Free; Pro from $29/mo
pricing
New Relic
Unlimited hosts (1 full-platform user)
free hosts
8 days (free), 90+ days (paid)
metrics retention
Yes, included in free tier (100GB/mo ingest)
apm
Yes, included in data ingest
log management
AI-powered anomaly detection
alerts
Free (100GB/mo); Standard from $0.35/GB
pricing
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