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Replace New Relic.

8 open source alternatives, ranked by health. We re-check every project weekly, so you don’t migrate to something abandoned.

Ranked by health

  1. GrafanaThe open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.★ 77k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript self-host managed
  2. SigNozOpenTelemetry-native observability platform with logs, metrics, traces, APM and alerting in one tool.★ 32k MIT + commercial ee/ TypeScript self-host managed
  3. Apache SkyWalkingApplication performance monitoring system for distributed systems, with tracing, metrics and logging.★ 25k Apache-2.0 Java self-host
  4. OpenObserveObservability platform for logs, metrics, traces, real user monitoring and session replay.★ 22k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript self-host managed
  5. PinpointApplication performance management tool for large-scale distributed systems, with distributed tracing.★ 14k Apache-2.0 Java self-host
  6. HyperDXObservability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors, built on ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry.★ 9.9k MIT TypeScript self-host managed
  7. CorootObservability and APM tool combining metrics, logs, traces, profiling and SLO-based alerting.★ 7.9k Apache-2.0 Go self-host
  8. UptraceOpenTelemetry-based APM that stores traces, metrics and logs in ClickHouse with dashboards and alerts.★ 4.3k AGPL-3.0 Go self-host managed
How the ranking works

Health blends commit recency, release cadence, issue throughput, contributor breadth and star growth. Stars are shown but never ranked on. The full method.