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Top 11 Grafana Alternatives & Competitors [2025]

Are you looking for Grafana alternatives? Then you have come to the right place. Grafana started as a data visualization tool. It slowly evolved into a tool that can take data from multiple data sources for visualization. For observability, Grafana offers the LGTM stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). You need to configure and maintain multiple configurations for a full-stack observability setup.

The Ultimate Guide to API Monitoring in 2025 - Metrics, Tools, and Proven Practices

According to Akamai, 83% of web traffic is through APIs. Microservices, servers, and clients constantly communicate to exchange information. Even the Google search you made to reach this article involved your browser client calling Google APIs. Given APIs govern the internet, businesses rely on them heavily. API health is directly proportional to business prosperity. This article covers everything about API monitoring, so your API infrastructure’s health is always in check .

What is Event Correlation? And Why Does Event Correlation Matter when Monitoring?

Event correlation in the context of an AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) monitoring tool, such as eG Enterprise, is the automated process of analyzing and linking related IT events to identify patterns, root causes, and significant incidents within complex IT environments. By correlating events from various sources (like servers, applications, networks, and databases), AIOps tools help IT teams manage alerts more efficiently, reduce noise, and address issues faster and more effectively.

Top 5 Azure Monitoring tools to maximize application and service performance

Many organizations migrate their workloads to the cloud or begin leveraging what the cloud offers. However, to keep their businesses up and running during this process, organizations still require integrating their systems in the cloud, like Dynamics365, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, with Azure Integration Services (AIS) and potentially on-premises. One crucial aspect of such integrations is keeping them healthy and available, which requires monitoring and diagnostics.

Your Guide To Datadog Cost Optimization: 7 Tips For Reducing Spend

As cloud systems become increasingly sophisticated, you want a cloud monitoring platform that helps you identify, isolate, and fix root-cause issues. Meanwhile, engineering leaders are under increasing pressure to reduce technology costs as the global economic outlook remains uncertain. With Datadog, you can observe, monitor, analyze, and report on the health of your infrastructure, applications, and services in any cloud and at scale.

Optimizing E-commerce Application Performance (APM) During High-Traffic Holidays!

Everyone within an e-commerce business knows that the stakes are high during peak shopping events such as Black Friday, Christmas, and many other holiday seasons. Periods like these are make-or-break for your revenue. Application performance is the key to success. A slow e-commerce website, stalled transactions, or unanticipated downtime invariably leads to frustrated customers, lost sales, and long-term damage to a brand’s reputation.

Monitoring your Express application using OpenTelemetry

Nodejs is a popular Javascript runtime environment that executes Javascript code outside of a web browser. Express is the most popular web frameworks that sits on top of Nodejs and adds functionalities like middleware, routing, etc. to Nodejs. You can monitor your express application using OpenTelemetry and a tracing backend of your choice.