# Best Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Tools and Software

  *By [Tian Lin](https://research.g2.com/insights/author/tian-lin)*

   Cloud infrastructure monitoring software helps businesses maintain the health, availability, and efficiency of their cloud environments by collecting and analyzing metrics from compute, storage, network, and other cloud resources across public, private, and hybrid clouds. These tools enable teams to proactively detect issues, understand performance and resource usage in real time, and optimize both cost and security.

### Core Capabilities of Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software

To qualify for inclusion in the Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring category, a product must:

- Continuously monitor the performance and health of cloud infrastructure components (e.g., compute instances, containers, storage, databases, and networks)
- Provide visualization tools such as dashboards, topology maps, or infrastructure diagrams
- Detect and alert on abnormal behavior or potential infrastructure failures
- Provide actionable insights or recommendations for optimizing infrastructure performance and costs

### How Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software Differs from Other Tools

Cloud infrastructure monitoring focuses specifically on the infrastructure layer, unlike application performance monitoring tools, which measure application-level performance and user experience, or observability software, which provides deeper insights across logs, metrics, and traces. Its purpose is to ensure foundational cloud resources operate reliably and cost-effectively.

### Insights from G2 on Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software

Based on category trends on G2, the value of real-time alerts, customizable dashboards, and the ability to monitor diverse cloud environments without disrupting performance.





## Category Overview

**Total Products under this Category:** 116


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## Best Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring  Software At A Glance

- **Leader:** [IBM Instana](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-instana/reviews)
- **Highest Performer:** [Cloudshot](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudshot/reviews)
- **Easiest to Use:** [Cloudshot](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudshot/reviews)
- **Top Trending:** [Coralogix](https://www.g2.com/products/coralogix/reviews)
- **Best Free Software:** [Dynatrace](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews)


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## Top-Rated Products (Ranked by G2 Score)
### 1. [IBM Instana](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-instana/reviews)
  IBM Instana discovers and maps all services, infrastructure, and their inter-dependencies automatically. Instana ingests all observability metrics, traces each request, profiles every process, and updates application dependency maps in real-time to deliver the context and actionable feedback needed by DevOps to optimize application performance, enable innovation and mitigate risk to help them add value and efficiency to the pipeline. IBM Instana is available on AWS Marketplace.


  **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 463

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 8.6/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 8.5/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 8.5/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [IBM](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ibm)
- **Company Website:** https://www.ibm.com/us-en
- **Year Founded:** 1911
- **HQ Location:** Armonk, NY
- **Twitter:** @IBM (709,023 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1009/ (324,553 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** Software Engineer, System Engineer
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software
  - **Company Size:** 41% Mid-Market, 36% Enterprise


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (132 reviews)
- Monitoring (116 reviews)
- Real-time Monitoring (107 reviews)
- Monitoring Capabilities (99 reviews)
- Easy Setup (69 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Expensive (48 reviews)
- Learning Curve (40 reviews)
- User Interface Issues (40 reviews)
- Pricing Issues (39 reviews)
- Difficult Learning (36 reviews)

### 2. [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews)
  Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. The 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.


  **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 688

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 8.2/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 8.5/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/sellers/datadog)
- **Company Website:** https://www.datadoghq.com/
- **Year Founded:** 2010
- **HQ Location:** New York
- **Twitter:** @datadoghq (50,931 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1066442/ (10,625 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software
  - **Company Size:** 47% Mid-Market, 33% Enterprise


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (145 reviews)
- Monitoring (144 reviews)
- Real-time Monitoring (122 reviews)
- Features (93 reviews)
- Analytics (88 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Expensive (92 reviews)
- Learning Curve (73 reviews)
- Pricing Issues (71 reviews)
- Cost (65 reviews)
- Learning Difficulty (56 reviews)

### 3. [Dynatrace](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews)
  Dynatrace is advancing observability for today’s digital businesses, helping to transform the complexity of modern digital ecosystems into powerful business assets. By leveraging AI-powered insights, Dynatrace enables organizations to analyze, automate, and innovate faster to drive their business forward. Learn more at www.dynatrace.com.


  **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 1,230

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 8.5/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 8.2/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Dynatrace](https://www.g2.com/sellers/dynatrace)
- **Year Founded:** 2005
- **HQ Location:** Boston, MA
- **Twitter:** @Dynatrace (18,659 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/125999/ (5,950 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Ownership:** NYSE: DT

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Financial Services
  - **Company Size:** 69% Enterprise, 23% Mid-Market


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (84 reviews)
- Debugging (53 reviews)
- Insights (47 reviews)
- Features (44 reviews)
- Monitoring (44 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Learning Curve (43 reviews)
- Missing Features (39 reviews)
- Complexity (29 reviews)
- UX Improvement (26 reviews)
- Learning Difficulty (25 reviews)

### 4. [New Relic](https://www.g2.com/products/new-relic/reviews)
  New Relic invented cloud APM for application engineers. Today it is a leader in observability and source of truth for all engineers to make decisions with data across their entire software stack and the software life cycle. There are an estimated 25 million engineers in the world across more than 25 distinct functions. As every company becomes a software company, engineers are using New Relic to gather real-time insights and trending data about the performance of their software so they can be more resilient and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Only New Relic provides an all-in-one platform that is built and sold as a unified experience. With New Relic, customers get access to a secure telemetry cloud for all metrics, events, logs, and traces; powerful full-stack analysis tools; and predictable user-based pricing. New Relic has also curated one of the industry’s largest ecosystems of open source integrations, making it easy for every engineer to get started with observability and use New Relic alongside their other favorite applications.


  **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 568

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 8.4/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 9.3/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [New Relic](https://www.g2.com/sellers/new-relic)
- **Company Website:** https://newrelic.com
- **Year Founded:** 2008
- **HQ Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Twitter:** @newrelic (65,851 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/426253/ (3,029 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software
  - **Company Size:** 43% Mid-Market, 30% Enterprise


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (97 reviews)
- Real-time Monitoring (95 reviews)
- Monitoring (75 reviews)
- Insights (69 reviews)
- Analytics (62 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Expensive (63 reviews)
- Pricing Issues (53 reviews)
- Complexity (50 reviews)
- Learning Curve (50 reviews)
- Complex Setup (38 reviews)

### 5. [Site24x7](https://www.g2.com/products/site24x7/reviews)
  ManageEngine Site24x7 offers unified cloud monitoring for DevOps and IT operations within small to large organizations. The solution monitors the experience of real users accessing websites and applications from desktop and mobile devices. In-depth monitoring capabilities enable DevOps teams to monitor and troubleshoot applications, servers and network infrastructure, including private and public clouds. End-user experience monitoring is done from more than 100 locations across the world and various wireless carriers.


  **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 419

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 9.2/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Zoho](https://www.g2.com/sellers/zoho-b00ca9d5-bca8-41b5-a8ad-275480841704)
- **Year Founded:** 1996
- **HQ Location:** Austin, TX
- **Twitter:** @Zoho (137,251 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/38373/ (30,531 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Phone:** +1 (888) 900-9646 

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** CEO, CTO
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software
  - **Company Size:** 45% Mid-Market, 43% Small-Business


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (78 reviews)
- Monitoring (73 reviews)
- Real-time Monitoring (61 reviews)
- Monitoring Features (52 reviews)
- Monitoring Services (49 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Complexity (25 reviews)
- Alert Issues (23 reviews)
- Learning Curve (21 reviews)
- Expensive (20 reviews)
- Not User-Friendly (18 reviews)

### 6. [Coralogix](https://www.g2.com/products/coralogix/reviews)
  Coralogix is a modern, full-stack observability platform transforming how businesses process and understand their data. Our unique architecture powers in-stream analytics without reliance on indexing or hot storage. We specialize in comprehensive monitoring of logs, metrics, trace and security events, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing total cost of ownership by up to 70%. Coralogix stands out for its simple pricing model, based solely on data volume ingested and retained, and offers free, fast customer support with less than 30 second response time and 1 hour resolution time. Our platform covers the entire range of observability with features such as APM, RUM, SIEM, Kubernetes monitoring and more, all streamlined for quick integration and immediate value. Components within the stream store the system state to provide stateful insights and real-time alerting without ever needing to index the data — so there are never any trade-offs to achieve observability. Once ingested, parsed, and enriched, data is written remotely to an archive bucket controlled by the client. The archive can be queried directly at any time, from the platform UI or via CLI, giving users infinite retention with full control over, and access to, their data. View and query your data from any dashboard using any syntax. Coralogix has successfully completed relevant security and privacy compliances by BDO including GDPR, SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA, and ISO 27001/27701.


  **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 339

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 9.1/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 8.7/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 8.6/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Coralogix](https://www.g2.com/sellers/coralogix)
- **Company Website:** https://www.coralogix.com
- **Year Founded:** 2014
- **HQ Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Twitter:** @Coralogix (4,076 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/3763125/ (583 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer
  - **Top Industries:** Computer Software, Information Technology and Services
  - **Company Size:** 53% Mid-Market, 34% Enterprise


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (82 reviews)
- Log Management (70 reviews)
- Customer Support (65 reviews)
- Real-time Monitoring (57 reviews)
- User Interface (57 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Learning Curve (25 reviews)
- Missing Features (25 reviews)
- Difficult Learning (24 reviews)
- Slow Performance (24 reviews)
- Learning Difficulty (22 reviews)

### 7. [LogicMonitor](https://www.g2.com/products/logicmonitor/reviews)
  LogicMonitor® offers hybrid observability powered by AI. The company’s SaaS-based platform, LM Envision, enables observability across on-prem and multi-cloud environments. We provide IT and business teams operational visibility and predictability across their technologies and applications to focus less on troubleshooting and more on delivering extraordinary employee and customer experiences. For more information, visit  www.logicmonitor.com and our blog, or follow us on LinkedIn, X, Facebook, and YouTube.


  **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 577

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 8.5/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 8.6/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 8.4/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 8.0/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [LogicMonitor](https://www.g2.com/sellers/logicmonitor)
- **Company Website:** https://www.logicmonitor.com/
- **Year Founded:** 2007
- **HQ Location:** Santa Barbara, CA
- **Twitter:** @logicmonitor (12,470 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1165219/ (1,249 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** Infrastructure Manager, IT Manager
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software
  - **Company Size:** 52% Mid-Market, 30% Enterprise


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (21 reviews)
- Monitoring (18 reviews)
- Implementation Ease (17 reviews)
- Comprehensive Monitoring (16 reviews)
- Customer Support (16 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Limited Features (10 reviews)
- Learning Curve (9 reviews)
- Expensive (8 reviews)
- Feature Deficiency (8 reviews)
- Inadequate Monitoring (8 reviews)

### 8. [Amazon CloudWatch](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudwatch/reviews)
  Amazon CloudWatch is a comprehensive monitoring and observability service designed to provide real-time insights into AWS resources, on-premises servers, hybrid environments, and applications. It enables users to collect and track metrics, monitor log files, set alarms, and automatically react to changes in their AWS resources. By offering a unified view of operational health, CloudWatch helps organizations optimize application performance, manage resource utilization, and maintain system reliability. Key Features and Functionality: - Metrics Collection and Monitoring: Automatically collects and tracks metrics from over 70 AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and AWS Lambda, providing up-to-the-minute data on resource performance. - Log Management: Aggregates and stores logs from various sources, such as AWS services and on-premises servers, facilitating real-time monitoring and analysis. - Alarms and Automated Actions: Allows users to set alarms based on predefined thresholds, triggering automated actions like scaling resources or sending notifications when specific conditions are met. - Dashboards and Visualization: Offers customizable dashboards that display metrics and logs, enabling users to visualize data and gain insights into system performance. - Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Provides tools like Application Signals and CloudWatch Synthetics to monitor application health, detect anomalies, and simulate user interactions for proactive issue detection. - Container and Serverless Monitoring: Includes features like Container Insights and Lambda Insights to monitor containerized applications and serverless functions, offering detailed performance metrics and diagnostics. Primary Value and Problem Solving: Amazon CloudWatch addresses the critical need for comprehensive monitoring and observability in modern IT environments. By consolidating metrics, logs, and events into a single platform, it eliminates the complexity of managing multiple monitoring tools. This integration enables faster detection and resolution of operational issues, reducing downtime and improving system reliability. CloudWatch's automated actions and alarms allow for proactive management of resources, ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency. Additionally, its support for various environments, including on-premises and hybrid setups, makes it a versatile solution for diverse infrastructure monitoring needs.


  **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 355

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 8.1/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 8.0/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 8.1/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd)
- **Year Founded:** 2006
- **HQ Location:** Seattle, WA
- **Twitter:** @awscloud (2,223,984 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon-web-services/ (156,424 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Ownership:** NASDAQ: AMZN

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software
  - **Company Size:** 41% Enterprise, 31% Mid-Market


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Log Management (14 reviews)
- Integrations (6 reviews)
- Alerting System (5 reviews)
- Alerting Systems (5 reviews)
- Data Centralization (5 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Pricing Issues (4 reviews)
- Cost Management (3 reviews)
- Expensive (3 reviews)
- Complexity (2 reviews)
- Configuration Difficulty (2 reviews)

### 9. [IBM Turbonomic](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-turbonomic/reviews)
  IBM Turbonomic is a real-time application resource management platform designed to help users optimize and manage resources across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This innovative solution continuously analyzes application performance and resource utilization, automating critical resourcing decisions to ensure optimal application performance while minimizing costs associated with cloud and infrastructure resources. IBM Turbonomic addresses the challenges of managing complex, dynamic environments. As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, the need for effective resource management becomes paramount. Turbonomic provides a comprehensive approach to performance management by analyzing the entire technology stack, identifying inefficiencies, and uncovering dependencies that can impact application performance. This proactive management capability allows organizations to maintain high service levels while controlling costs. One of the key features of IBM Turbonomic is its ability to continuously adjust application resources in real time. By monitoring resource utilization and application performance, Turbonomic prevents performance degradation and overprovisioning. This dynamic adjustment ensures that applications receive the necessary resources when needed, which is crucial for maintaining optimal performance levels. Additionally, the platform automates resource decisions such as scaling and placement, allowing organizations to focus on strategic initiatives rather than manual resource management tasks. Turbonomic customers report an average 33% reduction in cloud and infrastructure waste without impacting application performance, and return-on-investment of 471% over three years. IBM Turbonomic is also available on AWS Marketplace. By leveraging Turbonomic, businesses can ensure that their applications run smoothly, resources are utilized effectively, and costs are kept in check, all while maintaining a focus on innovation and growth. For further information, please visit www.ibm.com/products/turbonomic


  **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 287

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 8.7/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 8.4/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 7.9/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 7.9/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [IBM](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ibm)
- **Company Website:** https://www.ibm.com/us-en
- **Year Founded:** 1911
- **HQ Location:** Armonk, NY
- **Twitter:** @IBM (709,023 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1009/ (324,553 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** Software Engineer, System Engineer
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software
  - **Company Size:** 42% Enterprise, 32% Mid-Market


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Cost Optimization (41 reviews)
- Ease of Use (39 reviews)
- Automation (38 reviews)
- Performance (31 reviews)
- Real-time Monitoring (29 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Complexity (32 reviews)
- Learning Curve (30 reviews)
- Complex Configuration (26 reviews)
- Difficult Learning (25 reviews)
- Difficult Setup (25 reviews)

### 10. [Cloudshot](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudshot/reviews)
  Cloudshot is a patented, visual cloud management platform that helps enterprises gain complete visibility, governance, and control across their cloud and IT spend. Designed for organizations operating in complex environments, Cloudshot delivers multi-cloud management visibility across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid setups through an intuitive, visual-first approach. Unlike traditional tools that rely on raw data, scripts, or fragmented dashboards, Cloudshot represents cloud environments visually, enabling teams to understand architecture, dependencies, risks, and costs at a glance. This reduces operational complexity and accelerates decision-making across engineering, security, and finance teams. Cloudshot brings DevOps, SecOps, FinOps, and Sustainability together under a single umbrella. DevOps teams benefit from faster environment understanding and infrastructure insights, SecOps teams gain continuous security posture and drift visibility, and FinOps teams receive accurate, allocation-ready cost and optimization data. Sustainability is natively built into the platform, helping organizations optimize costs while reducing environmental impact. Cloudshot aligns closely with the FinOps Foundation framework and is an official FOCUS-compatible tool, supporting the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS). This ensures standardized, portable, and provider-agnostic cost and usage data across cloud platforms, enabling enterprises to scale FinOps practices with confidence and consistency. Beyond cloud infrastructure, Cloudshot provides a unified IT spend dashboard that consolidates multi-cloud costs, cloud marketplace usage, SaaS spend, and shared IT services into a single, consistent view. This enables leadership teams to understand true technology spend, improve accountability, and align IT investments with business outcomes. Enterprise customers using Cloudshot typically achieve 10% to 35% savings on their cloud spend through continuous optimization, waste elimination, and improved governance. By combining patented technology, visual cloud management, and FOCUS-aligned spend visibility, Cloudshot enables enterprises to move from reactive cost control to proactive, strategic management of their IT ecosystem.


  **Average Rating:** 4.9/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 65

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 9.7/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 9.5/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Cloudshot](https://www.g2.com/sellers/cloudshot)
- **Year Founded:** 2023
- **HQ Location:** Pune, IN
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudshot-io/ (4 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** Cloud Architect, DevOps Engineer
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services
  - **Company Size:** 125% Enterprise, 22% Mid-Market


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Cloud Services (51 reviews)
- Ease of Use (41 reviews)
- Cloud Management (34 reviews)
- Features (24 reviews)
- Cost Optimization (22 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Missing Features (4 reviews)
- Difficult Learning (3 reviews)
- Steep Learning Curve (3 reviews)
- Complex Configuration (2 reviews)
- Difficult Setup (2 reviews)

### 11. [Paessler PRTG](https://www.g2.com/products/paessler-prtg/reviews)
  Paessler PRTG is a real-time unified infrastructure monitoring solution that enables IT Pros to locate problems throughout their entire network and resolve them before they escalate and become business critical. PRTG monitors all systems, devices, traffic and applications of your IT infrastructure using these technologies: SNMP: ready to use and custom options WMI and Windows Performance Counters SSH: for Linux/Unix and MacOS systems Flows and Packet Sniffing HTTP requests REST APIs returning XML or JSON Ping, SQL and many more Over 500,000 sysadmins from SMB's to large enterprises use Paessler PRTG to make their networks faster, more responsive, and more reliable.


  **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 202

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 9.1/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 8.6/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 8.4/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Paessler GmbH](https://www.g2.com/sellers/paessler-gmbh)
- **Company Website:** https://www.paessler.com/
- **Year Founded:** 1997
- **HQ Location:** Nuremberg, Germany
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/409588/ (390 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** Software Engineer, Network Administrator
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Telecommunications
  - **Company Size:** 52% Mid-Market, 37% Enterprise


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (78 reviews)
- Monitoring (64 reviews)
- Monitoring Capabilities (57 reviews)
- Alerting Systems (53 reviews)
- Easy Setup (51 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Expensive (30 reviews)
- Slow Performance (29 reviews)
- User Interface Issues (28 reviews)
- Learning Curve (23 reviews)
- Licensing Issues (23 reviews)

### 12. [SolarWinds Observability](https://www.g2.com/products/solarwinds-worldwide-llc-solarwinds-observability/reviews)
  SolarWinds® Observability is a comprehensive full-stack observability solution designed to meet the diverse needs of modern organizations, regardless of their size. This solution provides deep visibility into hybrid ecosystems, enabling users to monitor and manage both on-premises and cloud environments effectively. By optimizing performance and ensuring availability across distributed hybrid IT infrastructures, SolarWinds Observability supports organizations in navigating the complexities of their IT environments. Targeted at IT professionals and organizations that require robust monitoring capabilities, SolarWinds Observability caters to a wide range of use cases. It is particularly beneficial for businesses operating in hybrid environments, where the integration of on-premises and cloud resources is essential. The solution allows users to gain a holistic view of their networks, applications, databases, and user experiences, thereby facilitating better decision-making and operational efficiency. This is especially crucial in today’s fast-paced digital landscape, where downtime can significantly impact service reliability and customer satisfaction. One of the standout features of SolarWinds Observability is its built-in intelligence powered by AIOps capabilities. This functionality accelerates issue remediation by enabling users to detect, troubleshoot, and resolve problems more efficiently. The advanced predictive analysis and anomaly-based alerts help organizations proactively address potential issues before they escalate, ultimately reducing downtime and enhancing service reliability. Additionally, the solution's log pattern analysis further streamlines the troubleshooting process, allowing IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than being bogged down by operational challenges. SolarWinds Observability offers flexibility in deployment, providing users with the option to choose between self-hosted and SaaS models. The self-hosted option integrates seamlessly with other SolarWinds services, such as security and storage monitoring, while the SaaS option is tailored for deeper monitoring of custom and cloud-based applications. This adaptability ensures that organizations can select the deployment method that best aligns with their operational needs and infrastructure. Moreover, SolarWinds Observability stands out by consolidating multiple monitoring tools into a single, integrated solution. This not only simplifies the monitoring process but also helps organizations reduce costs associated with managing disparate systems. By offering comprehensive visibility across hybrid IT environments, SolarWinds Observability empowers organizations to optimize their operations and enhance overall performance.


  **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 787

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 9.3/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 8.7/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [SolarWinds Worldwide LLC](https://www.g2.com/sellers/solarwinds-worldwide-llc)
- **Company Website:** https://www.solarwinds.com
- **Year Founded:** 1999
- **HQ Location:** Austin, TX
- **Twitter:** @solarwinds (19,618 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/166039/ (2,818 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** Network Engineer, Network Administrator
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Hospital & Health Care
  - **Company Size:** 45% Enterprise, 36% Mid-Market


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (64 reviews)
- Monitoring (63 reviews)
- Monitoring Performance (55 reviews)
- Monitoring Capabilities (51 reviews)
- User Interface (41 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Expensive (35 reviews)
- Learning Curve (21 reviews)
- Integration Issues (20 reviews)
- Complex Setup (19 reviews)
- Configuration Difficulty (18 reviews)

### 13. [Sumo Logic](https://www.g2.com/products/sumo-logic/reviews)
  Sumo Logic, Inc. unifies and analyzes enterprise data, translating it into actionable insights through one AI-powered cloud-native log analytics platform. This single source of truth enables Dev, Sec and Ops teams to simplify complexity, collaborate efficiently and accelerate data-driven decisions that drive business value. Customers around the world rely on the Sumo Logic SaaS Log Analytics Platform for trusted insights to ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern security threats, and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures. For more information, visit: SUMOLOGIC.COM


  **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 381

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 8.2/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Sumo Logic](https://www.g2.com/sellers/sumo-logic)
- **Company Website:** https://www.sumologic.com
- **Year Founded:** 2010
- **HQ Location:** Redwood City, CA
- **Twitter:** @SumoLogic (6,511 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1037816/ (808 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software
  - **Company Size:** 49% Mid-Market, 37% Enterprise


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (63 reviews)
- Log Management (46 reviews)
- Features (37 reviews)
- Real-time Monitoring (37 reviews)
- Insights (35 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Difficult Learning (21 reviews)
- Learning Curve (21 reviews)
- Learning Difficulty (21 reviews)
- Expensive (19 reviews)
- Slow Performance (18 reviews)

### 14. [Nexthink](https://www.g2.com/products/nexthink/reviews)
  Nexthink is the leader in digital employee experience management software. The company provides IT leaders with unprecedented insight allowing them to see, diagnose and fix issues at scale impacting employees anywhere, with any application or network, before employees notice the issue. Through agentic AI and cutting-edge solutions, Nexthink enables thousands of customers to provide better digital experiences and enhanced employee productivity to millions of employees. Dual headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts, Nexthink has 9 offices worldwide.


  **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 341

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 8.6/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 8.4/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 8.7/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 8.7/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Nexthink](https://www.g2.com/sellers/nexthink)
- **Company Website:** https://www.nexthink.com
- **Year Founded:** 2004
- **HQ Location:** Prilly, CH
- **Twitter:** @NexthinkNews (3,280 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/92771/ (1,140 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** Project Manager
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Financial Services
  - **Company Size:** 83% Enterprise, 12% Mid-Market


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (48 reviews)
- Positive Experience (43 reviews)
- Insights (39 reviews)
- Issue Detection (32 reviews)
- Automation (28 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Difficult Learning (30 reviews)
- Learning Curve (29 reviews)
- Complexity (26 reviews)
- Expensive (18 reviews)
- Steep Learning Curve (12 reviews)

### 15. [Dash0](https://www.g2.com/products/dash0/reviews)
  Dash0 is the only OpenTelemetry Native observability platform built with developers in mind. With granular, resource-centric monitoring, Dash0 provides real-time visibility across your applications and infrastructure. Its simple, transparent pricing and seamless integration with open standards like Perses, PromQL, and Kubernetes make it a breeze to use. Dash0 helps you quickly spot issues and optimize performance with actionable insights from logs, traces, and metrics, all in one place.


  **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 41

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 8.6/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 9.2/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 9.1/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 7.4/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Dash0](https://www.g2.com/sellers/dash0-d8c455c3-cd78-4a96-904e-add5fd91946b)
- **Company Website:** https://www.dash0.com
- **Year Founded:** 2023
- **HQ Location:** New York
- **Twitter:** @dash0hq (2,289 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/dash0hq (109 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Top Industries:** Computer Software, Information Technology and Services
  - **Company Size:** 50% Small-Business, 31% Mid-Market


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (31 reviews)
- Customer Support (30 reviews)
- User Interface (24 reviews)
- Easy Setup (20 reviews)
- Easy Integrations (18 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Limited Features (10 reviews)
- Feature Deficiency (9 reviews)
- Missing Features (9 reviews)
- Limited Customization (6 reviews)
- Feature Limitations (5 reviews)

### 16. [Checkmk](https://www.g2.com/products/checkmk/reviews)
  Checkmk is a full-stack monitoring and observability platform designed to provide unified visibility into hybrid IT infrastructures. With more than 2,000 built-in integrations, it offers broad coverage across networks, servers, cloud workloads, Kubernetes and applications. The platform is highly automated, featuring auto-discovery of hosts and services and rule-based configuration to reduce manual setup. It is highly scalable, capable of efficiently monitoring thousands of hosts and millions of services. A central web-based interface allows users to manage configuration, visualize data with customizable dashboards, and track system performance over time. Checkmk is available as packages for all common Linux distributions, as a virtual or physical appliance, through AWS and Azure Marketplace images, or as SaaS. Checkmk is available in four editions: Checkmk Community offers free and open source monitoring for small infrastructures. Checkmk Pro allows for monitoring at speed and scale for data center infrastructures. Checkmk Ultimate offers full-stack observability for hybrid and cloud-native infrastructures which is also available with multi-tenancy and data segregation to support security and compliance. And Checkmk Cloud for full-stack observability for hybrid and cloud-native infrastructures in a SaaS platform. Available extensions include synthetic monitoring and OpenTelemetry for application monitoring. The Checkmk Relay enables secure data collection for segmented networks using outbound-only communication, supporting fully air-gapped and zero-inbound monitoring deployments. Checkmk supports integration with ITSM tools and third-party platforms, enabling automatic ticket creation and consistent alerting. Features such as forecasting, capacity planning, and asset inventory as well as lifecycle management and auto-registration help teams manage dynamic IT environments. Monitoring capabilities: - Monitoring of hybrid infrastructures: cloud, on-premises, virtual, and container environments. - 2000+ built-in integrations networks, servers, cloud workloads, Kubernetes and applications out-of-the-box dashboards provide key metrics for AWS and Azure environments, Linux and Windows servers, and Kubernetes clusters. - Automated discovery and configuration. - Alerting with native ITSM integrations. Operational benefits: - Provides insights into system health, capacity trends, and future resource needs through built-in assessments and forecasting tools. - Reduces manual effort with auto-discovery, rule-based configuration, and centralized agent management as well as auto-registration and host lifecycle management. - Accelerates incident response time by using custom self-healing workflows via the ‘Alert Handler’. - Allows creation of tailored dashboards and views to focus on the most relevant metrics for each team. - Maintains an up-to-date inventory of hardware and software assets, enriched with live monitoring data. - Supports distributed monitoring and can handle massive amounts of data. Why choose Checkmk? - Cost Efficiency: Transparent pricing model with a strong price-performance ratio - Security: Meets stringent security requirements, including fully air-gapped deployments and zero-inbound monitoring. - Visibility: Delivers broad and deep visibility with flexible deployment options. - Scalability: Scales efficiently to support large, distributed environments with high host and service counts. - Extensibility: Supports custom plug-ins, integrations, synthetic monitoring to monitor you applications from the user’s perspective and OpenTelemetry for application monitoring. Customers include: Adobe, Cloudera, Fujitsu, Siemens, Orange, VW, HP, Zalando, Fitbit, NEC, Continental, NHL, Capgemini, Sixt, Intesa SanPaolo


  **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 282

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 8.6/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 8.1/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 8.2/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 7.5/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Checkmk](https://www.g2.com/sellers/checkmk)
- **Company Website:** https://checkmk.com/
- **Year Founded:** 2007
- **HQ Location:** Munich, DE
- **Twitter:** @checkmk (1,757 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/11824415/ (223 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** IT Engineer, Systemadministrator
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer & Network Security
  - **Company Size:** 42% Mid-Market, 41% Enterprise


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (27 reviews)
- Monitoring (24 reviews)
- Monitoring Services (23 reviews)
- Flexibility (21 reviews)
- Real-time Monitoring (19 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Learning Curve (18 reviews)
- Difficult Learning (15 reviews)
- Learning Difficulty (12 reviews)
- Complex Configuration (11 reviews)
- Complex Setup (10 reviews)

### 17. [Pandora FMS](https://www.g2.com/products/pandora-fms/reviews)
  Pandora FMS is a unified monitoring and observability platform designed to consolidate visibility, alerting, reporting, and automation across heterogeneous IT environments. Instead of combining multiple point tools for networks, servers, applications, and cloud services, Pandora FMS centralizes data collection and operational workflows in a single console, reducing integration effort and operational complexity in on-premise, hybrid, and multi-cloud architectures. The platform collects telemetry using multiple methods, including agents, remote checks, standard protocols (e.g., SNMP/WMI), APIs, and log/event ingestion. This enables teams to monitor infrastructure and services end-to-end, correlate signals, and maintain consistent alerting policies and dashboards across distributed estates. Pandora FMS also supports capacity and trend analysis to anticipate resource constraints and identify recurring patterns, and includes AI-assisted capabilities for anomaly detection and automated thresholds to surface hard-to-spot operational signals. Pandora FMS is extensible through a large plugin ecosystem (500+ plugins and integrations), covering a wide range of enterprise and infrastructure technologies such as SAP, Oracle, Citrix, JBoss, VMware, AWS, SQL Server, Red Hat, and WebSphere. This extensibility helps organizations standardize monitoring across legacy and modern stacks without redesigning their monitoring approach per technology. Core capabilities: -Unified monitoring for networks, servers, applications, cloud services, endpoints, and logs -Centralized alerting, event correlation, dashboards, and scheduled reporting -Flexible data collection via agents, remote checks, APIs, and plugins -Scalability for distributed environments and large numbers of monitored elements -Analytics for trend/capacity planning plus AI-assisted anomaly detection and dynamic thresholds -A key differentiator is direct vendor support, which simplifies escalation and ensures continuity of expertise for deployment, tuning, and ongoing operations.


  **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 216

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 9.6/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 9.1/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 9.4/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 9.3/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Pandora FMS](https://www.g2.com/sellers/pandora-fms)
- **Company Website:** https://pandorafms.com/
- **Year Founded:** 2004
- **HQ Location:** Madrid, Spain
- **Twitter:** @pandorafms (5,470 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/pandora-pfms/ (57 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** Data Analyst
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Telecommunications
  - **Company Size:** 51% Mid-Market, 38% Small-Business


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Monitoring (139 reviews)
- Ease of Use (114 reviews)
- Real-time Monitoring (96 reviews)
- Flexibility (64 reviews)
- Network Monitoring (61 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Learning Curve (45 reviews)
- Complex Setup (32 reviews)
- Learning Difficulty (30 reviews)
- Difficult Learning (28 reviews)
- Complex Configuration (27 reviews)

### 18. [IBM SevOne](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-sevone/reviews)
  IBM® SevOne® gives NetOps teams deep, real-time visibility into hybrid cloud and SD-WAN performance — combining network-layer intelligence and app-aware insights to speed up resolution, reduce complexity, and ensure seamless digital experiences. In a world of hybrid clouds and ever-rising user expectations, downtime is not an option. IBM SevOne 8.0 equips NetOps teams with real-time, unified visibility across complex networks—from SD-WAN and multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) to Kubernetes. Built for speed and scale, it reduces time-to-value with native widget deployment, enhances diagnostics with advanced Flow Filters, and integrates seamlessly with vendors like Cisco, Aruba, and Palo Alto. The result? A cloud-smart, app-aware network that proactively detects issues before they impact users. With SevOne, you don’t just monitor. You take control of the future of network observability—today.


  **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 70

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 7.9/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 8.0/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [IBM](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ibm)
- **Year Founded:** 1911
- **HQ Location:** Armonk, NY
- **Twitter:** @IBM (709,023 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1009/ (324,553 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Ownership:** SWX:IBM

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Top Industries:** Computer Software, Information Technology and Services
  - **Company Size:** 38% Mid-Market, 32% Enterprise


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Monitoring (36 reviews)
- Reliability (32 reviews)
- Real-time Monitoring (26 reviews)
- Dashboard Customization (22 reviews)
- Dashboard Features (22 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Learning Curve (26 reviews)
- Difficult Learning (24 reviews)
- Complex Setup (22 reviews)
- Complexity (21 reviews)
- Complex Configuration (19 reviews)

### 19. [Middleware](https://www.g2.com/products/middleware/reviews)
  Middleware is a full-stack observability platform designed to help users monitor and debug their applications by consolidating all metrics, logs, and traces into a single unified timeline. This solution is particularly beneficial for developers and DevOps teams, as it allows them to identify root causes of issues and resolve them in real time. By breaking down data silos, Middleware enhances visibility across various components of an application, ultimately leading to reduced downtime and improved user experiences. The target audience for Middleware includes businesses of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises, that rely on complex software infrastructures. These organizations often face challenges in monitoring their applications effectively, especially when dealing with multiple data sources. Middleware addresses these challenges by providing a comprehensive suite of monitoring tools that cater to diverse use cases. For instance, teams can leverage log monitoring to track application performance, while real-time monitoring capabilities ensure that any anomalies are detected and addressed promptly. Key features of Middleware include log monitoring, application performance management (APM), infrastructure monitoring, and synthetic monitoring. The unified dashboard is a standout feature, allowing users to view all relevant data—metrics, logs, and traces—consolidated in one place. This holistic view simplifies the debugging process, enabling teams to quickly pinpoint issues and implement solutions. Additionally, Middleware offers alerting and notification functionalities that keep users informed of critical events, ensuring that they can respond to potential problems before they escalate. Root-cause analysis is another essential aspect of Middleware, empowering teams to investigate and understand the underlying factors contributing to application issues. This feature not only aids in immediate problem resolution but also helps in preventing similar issues from arising in the future. Furthermore, the integration of LLM observability enhances the platform's capabilities, providing deeper insights into application behavior and performance. Overall, Middleware stands out in the observability landscape by offering a comprehensive, user-friendly platform that integrates various monitoring tools into a cohesive experience. Its focus on real-time insights and root-cause analysis makes it a valuable asset for organizations looking to optimize their software performance and enhance user satisfaction.


  **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 54

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 8.5/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Middleware](https://www.g2.com/sellers/middleware)
- **Company Website:** https://middleware.io/
- **Year Founded:** 2014
- **HQ Location:** San Francisco, California
- **Twitter:** @middleware_labs (300 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://linkedin.com/company/middleware-labs (50 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Top Industries:** Computer Software, Information Technology and Services
  - **Company Size:** 73% Small-Business, 16% Enterprise


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Monitoring (22 reviews)
- Ease of Use (21 reviews)
- Real-time Monitoring (21 reviews)
- Dashboard Usability (16 reviews)
- Easy Setup (16 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Integration Issues (14 reviews)
- Configuration Complexity (9 reviews)
- Learning Curve (9 reviews)
- Learning Difficulty (8 reviews)
- Complex Setup (7 reviews)

### 20. [NetApp ONTAP Data Management Software](https://www.g2.com/products/netapp-ontap-data-management-software/reviews)
  Simplify your data infrastructure—from the edge to the core to the cloud—with the industry's leading enterprise data management software.


  **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 79

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Ease of Use:** 8.6/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [NetApp](https://www.g2.com/sellers/netapp)
- **Year Founded:** 1992
- **HQ Location:** Sunnyvale, California
- **Twitter:** @NetApp (118,257 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/2105/ (12,677 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Ownership:** NASDAQ

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Banking
  - **Company Size:** 46% Enterprise, 39% Mid-Market


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Data Security (7 reviews)
- Reliability (7 reviews)
- Data Management (5 reviews)
- Cloud Services (4 reviews)
- Protection (3 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Expensive (8 reviews)
- Complexity (4 reviews)
- Complexity Issues (3 reviews)
- Complex Setup (3 reviews)
- Integration Issues (3 reviews)

### 21. [CubeAPM](https://www.g2.com/products/cubeapm/reviews)
  CubeAPM is an OpenTelemetry-native observability and application performance monitoring (APM) platform that helps engineering and DevOps teams monitor applications, infrastructure, logs, and metrics from a single unified dashboard. Built for modern cloud and on-prem environments, CubeAPM offers full-stack visibility without sacrificing data control. It can be self-hosted inside your own cloud or data center, making it ideal for teams that need enterprise-grade observability while maintaining compliance with ISO 27001 standards. Most teams face a trade-off in observability — cloud SaaS tools are easy to run but send sensitive data outside your cloud, while open-source stacks demand heavy operations. CubeAPM removes this compromise by combining the control of self-hosting with the simplicity of SaaS. With flat usage-based pricing at $0.15 per GB, smart sampling, and unlimited retention, CubeAPM delivers predictable, affordable observability for organizations of any scale. Dashboards load instantly, data queries run fast, and teams can monitor microservices, Kubernetes clusters, APIs, and distributed systems in real time. Key Highlights OpenTelemetry-native: Ingest data from any stack with full compatibility. Self-hosted but managed: Runs in your environment while upgrades and maintenance are handled by CubeAPM. Unlimited retention: Store logs, traces, and metrics as long as you need. Transparent pricing: $0.15 / GB with no host-based fees or hidden charges. ISO 27001 compliant: Ensures quality, reliability, and operational excellence. CubeAPM is the ideal observability solution for teams seeking performance insights, compliance readiness, and total control — without the high costs or operational complexity of traditional APM tools.


  **Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 23

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 9.6/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 9.3/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [CubeAPM](https://www.g2.com/sellers/cubeapm)
- **HQ Location:** Gurgaon, IN
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/99851948/ (9 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 52% Small-Business, 43% Mid-Market


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Customer Support (13 reviews)
- Cost Optimization (10 reviews)
- Monitoring (10 reviews)
- Pricing (10 reviews)
- Real-time Monitoring (10 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Inadequate Monitoring (9 reviews)
- Missing Features (8 reviews)
- Feature Deficiency (5 reviews)
- Limited Features (5 reviews)
- Feature Limitations (4 reviews)

### 22. [Grafana Labs](https://www.g2.com/products/grafana-labs/reviews)
  Grafana Labs provides an open and composable monitoring and observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. There are more than 3,000 Grafana Labs customers, including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom, and more than 1 million active instances of Grafana around the world. Grafana Labs helps companies manage their observability strategies with the LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise offerings, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo) as well as extensive enterprise data source plugins, dashboard management, alerting, reporting, and security. Grafana Labs is backed by leading investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lead Edge Capital, GIC, Sequoia Capital, Coatue, and J.P. Morgan. Follow Grafana Labs on LinkedIn and Twitter or visit https://grafana.com.


  **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 153

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 9.1/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 8.4/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 9.6/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 8.0/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Grafana Labs](https://www.g2.com/sellers/grafana-labs)
- **Year Founded:** 2014
- **HQ Location:** New York
- **Twitter:** @grafana (68,264 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/11062162/ (1,770 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software
  - **Company Size:** 45% Mid-Market, 28% Enterprise


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Data Visualization (18 reviews)
- Ease of Use (18 reviews)
- Dashboard Usability (17 reviews)
- Real-time Monitoring (17 reviews)
- Monitoring (16 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Learning Curve (16 reviews)
- Complex Setup (13 reviews)
- Learning Difficulty (12 reviews)
- Difficult Learning (11 reviews)
- Complexity (10 reviews)

### 23. [ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.g2.com/products/manageengine-applications-manager/reviews)
  ManageEngine Applications Manager is an application performance & IT infrastructure monitoring solution that is designed to combat modern infrastructure problems and ensure that your business and end users are unaffected by substandard performance and downtime. By leveraging deep application performance monitoring with byte-code instrumentation, infrastructure monitoring, hybrid cloud monitoring, and digital experience monitoring from a single console, IT and DevOps teams will be able to gain code-level insights, automate their processes, pinpoint & resolve performance issues, and deliver better business outcomes. Overall, our product will help businesses optimize application usage & revenue, reduce MTTR, improve DevOps processes, migrate to the cloud with confidence, respond to incidents faster, and ensure seamless user experiences.


  **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 101

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 9.4/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 9.3/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 9.4/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Zoho](https://www.g2.com/sellers/zoho-b00ca9d5-bca8-41b5-a8ad-275480841704)
- **Year Founded:** 1996
- **HQ Location:** Austin, TX
- **Twitter:** @Zoho (137,251 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/38373/ (30,531 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Phone:** +1 (888) 900-9646 

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software
  - **Company Size:** 48% Mid-Market, 41% Enterprise


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Monitoring (21 reviews)
- Monitoring Capabilities (18 reviews)
- Monitoring Features (14 reviews)
- Real-time Monitoring (14 reviews)
- Ease of Use (12 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Limited Features (9 reviews)
- Feature Limitations (6 reviews)
- Integration Issues (6 reviews)
- Learning Curve (6 reviews)
- Limited Customization (6 reviews)

### 24. [Google Cloud Audit Logs](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-audit-logs/reviews)
  Google Cloud Audit Logs is a comprehensive service that automatically records administrative and data access activities within Google Cloud resources. It provides organizations with detailed logs of actions performed on their cloud infrastructure, enhancing security, compliance, and operational transparency. Key Features and Functionality: - Automatic Logging: Captures audit events across Google Cloud services without the need for manual configuration or agent installation. - Granular Log Types: Offers four distinct log categories: - Admin Activity Logs: Document administrative actions that modify resource configurations or metadata. - Data Access Logs: Record API calls that read or modify user-provided data. - System Event Logs: Track system-driven events within the cloud environment. - Policy Denied Logs: Log instances where access policies prevent certain actions. - Integrated Access Control: Utilizes Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles to manage permissions for viewing and managing audit logs. - Flexible Viewing Options: Audit logs can be accessed through the Google Cloud Console's Logs Explorer, the Google Cloud CLI, or the Logging API, providing multiple avenues for log analysis. Primary Value and User Solutions: Google Cloud Audit Logs addresses critical needs for security, compliance, and operational oversight by offering immutable and detailed records of all activities within cloud resources. This service enables organizations to monitor user actions, detect unauthorized access, and meet regulatory requirements effectively. By providing real-time insights into cloud operations, it supports proactive incident response and enhances overall governance within complex cloud infrastructures.


  **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 14

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 9.1/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 8.7/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 8.7/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Google](https://www.g2.com/sellers/google)
- **Year Founded:** 1998
- **HQ Location:** Mountain View, CA
- **Twitter:** @google (31,885,216 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1441/ (336,169 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Ownership:** NASDAQ:GOOG

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services
  - **Company Size:** 36% Enterprise, 36% Mid-Market


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Insights (1 reviews)
- Integrations (1 reviews)
- Log Management (1 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Difficult Setup (1 reviews)
- UX Issues (1 reviews)

### 25. [Elastic Observability](https://www.g2.com/products/elastic-observability/reviews)
  OpenTelemetry-native observability for fast, AI-driven root cause analysis Search, analyze, and act with logs, metrics, and traces. SRE leaders aim to proactively prevent downtime, simplify tool stacks, and reduce toil, but multi-cloud complexity and fragmented toolsets create visibility gaps that make it hard to stay ahead. OTel-native and AI-powered, Elastic Observability ingests and correlates petabytes of telemetry across your applications, services, and infrastructure, in real-time. Accelerate troubleshooting with built-in agentic workflows and an AI Assistant that goes well beyond chat to bolster team expertise and guide investigations, grounded with context from your organizational knowledge-bases. More data, more problems? Not anymore. Most observability and logging solutions weren’t built for today’s scale. Elastic is. Our architecture is designed to handle petabytes of logs with indexing, compression, and efficient searchable storage so you can keep all the telemetry you need, without breaking the bank. Store more, spend less, and resolve issues faster with a scalable, open, and extensible platform that unifies visibility across your entire environment.


  **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 88

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Usage Monitoring:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Ease of Use:** 7.3/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Dashboards and Visualizations:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
- **Reporting:** 7.2/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Elastic](https://www.g2.com/sellers/elastic)
- **Company Website:** https://www.elastic.co
- **Year Founded:** 2012
- **HQ Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Twitter:** @elastic (64,541 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/814025/ (4,986 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Who Uses This:** Software Engineer
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software
  - **Company Size:** 52% Enterprise, 48% Mid-Market


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (7 reviews)
- Alerting System (6 reviews)
- Log Management (6 reviews)
- Monitoring (6 reviews)
- Features (5 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Learning Curve (5 reviews)
- Difficult Learning (4 reviews)
- Log Management (4 reviews)
- Learning Difficulty (3 reviews)
- Log Management Issues (3 reviews)



## Parent Category

[Monitoring Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/monitoring)



## Related Categories

- [Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/application-performance-monitoring-apm)
- [Enterprise Monitoring Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/enterprise-monitoring)
- [Observability Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/observability-software)



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## Buyer Guide

### What You Should Know About Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software

### What is cloud infrastructure monitoring software?

With the rapid increase in cloud adoption, organizations are constantly looking to move more of their workloads to the cloud to achieve scalability, agility, and cost savings. A question that arises with this move is how organizations monitor their infrastructure performance as the migration creates visibility gaps. Maintaining and monitoring performance across their dynamic and complex cloud environments is challenging for organizations. This has led to the emergence of cloud monitoring solutions, which enable organizations to have end-to-end visibility across their cloud applications and servers.

A typical cloud infrastructure comprises servers, storage devices, cloud management tools, networks, and platform virtualization. Cloud infrastructure monitoring tools enable organizations to monitor and manage the operational workflow of their cloud infrastructure environment. These software tools provide a complete and comprehensive health picture of the cloud infrastructure components in real time. They help users access all their crucial cloud infrastructure metrics associated with network, storage, and resource utilization. 

Cloud infrastructure monitoring tools also help track metrics like resource levels, server response times, and storage capacities, which allows organizations to reduce troubleshooting times, predict performance requirements, and reduce overall costs associated with their cloud environments. ** **

### What are the common features of cloud infrastructure monitoring tools?

Cloud infrastructure monitoring solutions enable organizations to detect patterns and solve potential issues associated with their cloud infrastructure components. The following are some core features within cloud infrastructure monitoring software that can help users gain real-time insights into the availability, performance, and utilization of resources across their cloud environment:

**Usage monitoring:** This feature enables users to track infrastructure resource needs, alert administrators, and automatically scale usage to minimize waste.

**Database monitoring:** The software monitors performance and statistics related to memory, caches, and connections.

**API monitoring:** Cloud infrastructure monitoring software detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering.

**Network monitoring:** These monitoring solutions provide real-time insights into network performance metrics such as bandwidth usage, latency, connectivity, etc.

**Storage monitoring:** Some cloud infrastructure monitoring tools help administrators monitor and track their storage resources and utilization on the cloud.

**Real-time monitoring:** These solutions provide constant monitoring systems to detect real-time anomalies.

**Automation:** These tools efficiently scale resource usage to optimize spend with increased or decreased resource usage requirements.

**Reporting:** Cloud infrastructure monitoring solutions create reports outlining resources, underutilization, cost trends, and functional overlap.

**Dashboard and visualization:** The software presents information and analytics in a digestible, intuitive, and visually appealing way. This feature also helps users gain insights into performance issues by enabling dashboard visibility of various types of errors, such as system errors and user errors.

**Spend forecasting and optimization:** The tools allow users to project spending based on contracts, usage trends and predicted growth.

**Integrations:** Cloud infrastructure monitoring can be integrated with [ITSM solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/it-service-management-itsm-tools) like [workflow management tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/workflow-management) to enable real-time configuration management database updates, automatic ticketing, and autotriggering of remediation workflows. 

### What are the benefits of cloud infrastructure monitoring solutions?

Cloud monitoring tools facilitate performance monitoring across servers, networks, applications, and storage devices. They allow administrators to continuously assess resource utilization levels, server response times, speed, and availability. They also enable users to troubleshoot anomalies that can lead to future issues in a timely and efficient manner.

**Reduces costs:** Cloud infrastructure monitoring platforms help save IT costs by predicting utilization or potential performance issues in cloud infrastructure components. 

**Efficiency:** These solutions help IT teams gain insights into performance metrics across cloud infrastructure environments, troubleshoot detected issues, and bring out the major areas for improvement, increasing efficiency.

**End-to-end visibility:** These solutions let organizations have complete visibility and control over their cloud infrastructure environment in real time. This helps them analyze and optimize the performance of their cloud infrastructure applications and services.

**Increased productivity:** These monitoring tools alert or notify cloud administrators about real-time performance issues and allow them to resolve them quickly. These solutions also provide interactive dashboards to visualize anomalies and the related root cause analysis representation that helps organizations troubleshoot cloud infrastructure performance disruptions quickly.

**Improved end-user experience:** Cloud infrastructure monitoring solutions can optimize the user experience by monitoring the end-to-end performance of applications deployed on the cloud. They can quickly identify application issues and significantly reduce the mean time to repair (MTTR).

### Who Uses Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software?

Cloud infrastructure monitoring solutions act as a single source of truth to monitor, manage, and optimize the performance of all the components associated with a cloud infrastructure environment. One can gain a real-time view of all the operational data and act upon it instantly. IT administrators are the key users of this software:

**IT administrators:** Cloud infrastructure monitoring tools are implemented through automated monitoring software that provide centralized access and control over cloud infrastructure environments. Cloud IT administrators can track and assess the operational status and health of cloud applications and services.

### Which is the best cloud infrastructure monitoring software for tech startups?

- [Coralogix](https://www.g2.com/products/coralogix/reviews): Offers a modern observability platform with real-time log analytics and metrics. Its affordable pricing and scalability make it ideal for startups seeking comprehensive monitoring solutions.​
- [SolarWinds Observability](https://www.g2.com/products/solarwinds-worldwide-llc-solarwinds-observability/reviews): Provides full-stack monitoring with a focus on simplicity and scalability. It's suitable for startups aiming to monitor their infrastructure without extensive setup.​
- [FusionReactor APM](https://www.g2.com/products/fusionreactor-apm/reviews): Combines application performance monitoring with infrastructure insights. Its user-friendly interface and affordable plans cater well to startups needing deep visibility.​
- [Pandora FMS](https://www.g2.com/products/pandora-fms/reviews): An open-source monitoring solution that supports a wide range of infrastructure components. It's a flexible choice for startups looking for customizable monitoring tools.​
- [OpsRamp](https://www.g2.com/products/opsramp/reviews): Cloud-based IT operations platform with strong infrastructure monitoring, alert management, and hybrid environment support — a good fit for startups expanding into multi-cloud or hybrid setups.

### What are the alternatives to cloud infrastructure monitoring platforms?

Alternatives to cloud and IT infrastructure monitoring can replace this type of software, either partially or completely:

[Application performance monitoring (APM) software](https://www.g2.com/categories/application-performance-monitoring-apm) **:** These solutions help users track and visualize application obstructions and troubleshoot any future predictable issues. They also facilitate real-time insights into application performance through dashboards and trigger timely alerts for issues like disturbances in load time or response times. 

APM can be considered a subset of cloud infrastructure monitoring software, as the latter is a comprehensive monitoring platform that includes network monitoring, server monitoring, APM, and more.

### Software related to cloud infrastructure monitoring software

Related solutions that can be used together with cloud infrastructure monitoring software include:

[Network monitoring software](https://www.g2.com/categories/network-monitoring) **:** Cloud infrastructure monitoring solutions monitor network connections and collect related performance data such as bandwidth consumption, network latency, throughput, and more to optimize network performance across servers.

[Server monitoring software](https://www.g2.com/categories/server-monitoring) **:** Server monitoring lowers the number of server outages and reduces the time to resolve related issues. Cloud infrastructure monitoring tools enable server monitoring by monitoring system-level metrics like CPU, memory, disk usage, network activity, etc.

[Log monitoring software](https://www.g2.com/categories/log-monitoring): Log monitoring software scans and monitors log files generated by servers, applications, and networks. Some cloud infrastructure monitoring solutions facilitate log data aggregation, structuring, and summarizing. Users can analyze the log data through dashboards for anomaly identification, and the tool alerts users to patterns in these log files that help solve performance and security issues.

### Challenges with cloud monitoring software

Some of the key challenges which come along with cloud infrastructure monitoring tools are:

**Multiple cloud providers:** Organizations are extensively adopting multi-cloud strategies for multiple reasons, such as risk mitigation, avoiding vendor lock-ins, and higher security. However, monitoring infrastructure across multiple cloud providers has become a challenge for organizations.

**Hybrid cloud environment:** Monitoring infrastructure across public and private cloud deployment is highly challenging. Gaining end-to-end visibility across hybrid cloud environments is complex as applications are deployed in a distributed manner, and identifying issues across different environments becomes cumbersome. 

### How to choose the best cloud infrastructure monitoring software

#### Requirements Gathering (RFI/RFP) for Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software

Whether a company is looking for its first cloud and IT infrastructure monitoring software or wants to replace an existing one, g2.com can help find the best tool.

When searching for cloud infrastructure monitoring software, the company's needs often relate to specifically desired data and metrics. For example, the user may be most interested in monitoring and improving transaction performance within their applications. Buyers should make a ranked list of the cloud infrastructure monitoring features that most directly address the problems they’re trying to solve, then reference G2 reviews to find the right fit.

Prioritizing the desired feature set can help narrow down the potential pool of cloud infrastructure monitoring solutions, allowing teams to apply further considerations for budget, ease of integration with other systems, security requirements, and more. This holistic approach empowers buyers to move forward with a focused checklist, which can be used with G2 scoring to select the business's best cloud infrastructure monitoring product.

#### Compare Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software Products

**Create a long list**

Buyers should start with a large pool of cloud infrastructure monitoring software vendors. Keeping the desired must-have features in mind, it is important that buyers perform consistent inquiries during demos by which they can effectively compare the pros and cons of each software solution. 

**Create a short list**

It helps to cross-reference the results of initial vendor evaluations with G2 reviews from other buyers. The combination of these will help narrow down a short three- to five-product list. From there, buyers can compare pricing and features to determine the best fit.

**Conduct demos**

As a rule of thumb, companies should demo all of the products that end up on their short list. During demos, buyers should ask specific questions about the functionalities they care about most; for example, one might ask to be walked through a typical performance issue, from alerting to remediation within the cloud infrastructure monitoring tool. 

#### Selection of Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software

**Choose a selection team**

Regardless of a company’s size, it’s important to involve the most relevant personas during the cloud infrastructure monitoring software selection process. Larger companies may include individual team members to fill roles such as project manager, decision maker, system owner, and IT professionals and developers who will be working closely with the software. Smaller companies with fewer employees might overlap roles. 

**Negotiation**

Cloud infrastructure monitoring tools are on the expensive side when it comes to pricing. While some companies will not budge on the configurations of their packages, buyers looking to trim costs should try to negotiate down to the specific functions that matter to them in order to get the best price. 

**Final decision**

After this stage, it is important to perform a trial run if possible with a small selection of IT professionals or developers. This will help to ensure that the cloud infrastructure monitoring software of choice integrates well with an IT administrator’s systems setup or a developer’s day-to-day work. If the cloud infrastructure monitoring tool is well liked and well utilized, the buyer can take that as a sign that their selection is the right one. If not, reevaluation of the options may be necessary.

### How much does cloud infrastructure monitoring software cost?

Cloud infrastructure monitoring tools have several pricing options, such as perpetual license and subscription-based models. Some vendors also offer a free trial version, starting with the software being free for 14 days.

### Which cloud infrastructure monitoring service is the most affordable?

- [Site24x7](https://www.g2.com/products/site24x7/reviews): Highly rated for affordability and ease of use. It monitors servers, cloud services, and networks, starting at $9/month — ideal for small to mid-sized teams.
- [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews): Offers broad monitoring capabilities including cloud infrastructure, APM, and log management. Starts at $15/user/month with a free trial. Great for growing teams needing integrations.
- [New Relic](https://www.g2.com/products/new-relic/reviews): Provides full-stack observability with a generous free tier (up to 100 GB/month of data ingest). Flexible pricing makes it accessible for startups and SMBs.
- [Checkmk](https://www.g2.com/products/checkmk/reviews): Open-source monitoring with commercial editions available. Supports cloud, on-prem, and hybrid infrastructures with a focus on performance and flexibility.
- [LogicMonitor](https://www.g2.com/products/logicmonitor/reviews): Cloud-based platform with automated discovery and customizable dashboards. Offers strong infrastructure and hybrid environment support. Pricing is usage-based, with plans suited for mid-market companies.

### Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software FAQs

### Most Popular FAQs

#### Which Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software has the best reviews?

Based on verified user reviews on G2, several tools consistently earn top marks across overall satisfaction, likelihood to recommend, and support quality. Here are the highest-rated options:

- [Paessler PRTG](https://www.g2.com/products/paessler-prtg/reviews): A versatile network and infrastructure monitoring tool praised for its comprehensive sensor-based architecture and strong reliability scores across all company sizes.
- [Checkmk](https://www.g2.com/products/checkmk/reviews): An open-source-rooted monitoring platform that earns high ratings for its flexibility, ease of configuration, and consistent performance in hybrid environments.
- [New Relic](https://www.g2.com/products/new-relic/reviews): A full-stack observability platform with one of the largest review volumes in the category, receiving strong marks for depth of features and likelihood to recommend.
- [CubeAPM](https://www.g2.com/products/cubeapm/reviews): A newer entrant generating near-perfect scores for support quality and ease of use, particularly well-regarded by smaller engineering teams.

#### What is cloud infrastructure monitoring software?

Cloud infrastructure monitoring software gives IT and engineering teams real-time visibility into the health, performance, and availability of cloud-based resources — including servers, containers, databases, networks, and applications. These tools collect metrics, logs, and traces from across an organization's cloud environment and surface them in dashboards, alerts, and reports. 

The goal is to catch problems before they affect end users, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR), and ensure that infrastructure is running efficiently. Many platforms in this category also extend into observability, going beyond raw metrics to help teams understand the why behind performance issues, not just the what.

#### What are the best cloud infrastructure monitoring software for tech startups?

Tech startups benefit from tools that are easy to set up, offer flexible pricing, and don't require large DevOps teams to manage. The following platforms stand out for startup use cases based on user-reported ease of setup and overall satisfaction:

- [Better Stack](https://www.g2.com/products/better-stack/reviews): A lightweight uptime and logging platform highly rated for its clean interface and quick time-to-value, making it ideal for lean startup teams.
- [Middleware](https://www.g2.com/products/middleware/reviews): A unified observability platform built with developer workflows in mind, offering strong ease-of-use scores and fast onboarding.
- [Dash0](https://www.g2.com/products/dash0/reviews): An OpenTelemetry-native observability tool that earns strong reviews for its modern architecture and straightforward setup process.
- [Last9](https://www.g2.com/products/last9/reviews): A Prometheus-compatible monitoring platform optimized for high-cardinality environments, well-suited to cloud-native startup infrastructure.

#### What's the most user-friendly cloud infrastructure monitoring platform?

User-friendliness in this category comes down to intuitive dashboards, minimal configuration overhead, and fast time-to-insight. Based on Ease of Use scores from verified reviewers, these platforms lead the pack:

- [Pandora FMS](https://www.g2.com/products/pandora-fms/reviews): A flexible monitoring suite that earns the highest ease-of-use scores in the dataset, praised for its customizable views and accessible interface.
- [Netdata](https://www.g2.com/products/netdata/reviews): A real-time performance monitoring tool known for its zero-configuration setup and highly visual, low-latency dashboards.
- [Cloudshot](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudshot/reviews): A cloud cost and infrastructure monitoring platform that reviewers consistently describe as intuitive and easy to navigate from day one.
- [Paessler PRTG](https://www.g2.com/products/paessler-prtg/reviews): A network and infrastructure monitoring tool that balances deep functionality with an approachable interface, earning top ease-of-use ratings across company sizes.

#### What tools do you use for monitoring cloud infrastructure?

The most commonly reviewed and deployed tools in this category reflect a mix of full-stack observability platforms, infrastructure-specific monitors, and AIOps-enabled solutions. Based on review volume and breadth of use across industries, the most widely adopted tools include Datadog, Site24x7, New Relic, IBM Instana, IBM Turbonomic, LogicMonitor, and Checkmk. Each serves different infrastructure needs — from multi-cloud environments to hybrid on-premise setups — so the right choice depends on your stack, team size, and observability goals.

### Small Business FAQs

#### What is the most affordable Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software for SMBs?

Affordability for small businesses in this category is closely tied to flexible pricing, low barrier to entry, and strong value for the features delivered. The [G2 Small Business](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-monitoring/small-business) segment surfaces tools that reviewers at companies with fewer than 50 employees rate highly. Based on those reviews, the following tools offer strong value for smaller teams:

- [Netdata](https://www.g2.com/products/netdata/reviews): An open-source monitoring agent that offers a generous free tier and real-time visibility into system performance with minimal infrastructure cost.
- [Checkmk](https://www.g2.com/products/checkmk/reviews): An infrastructure monitoring platform with a free open-source edition and affordable commercial tiers, well-suited to SMBs managing mixed environments.
- [CubeAPM](https://www.g2.com/products/cubeapm/reviews): A cost-effective APM and infrastructure monitoring tool earning near-perfect satisfaction scores from small business reviewers seeking enterprise-level visibility on a startup budget.

#### What is the best Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software for startups?

For startups, the ideal monitoring tool combines fast setup, developer-friendly workflows, and scalable pricing. Based on ratings from users at early-stage and growth-stage companies in G2's [Small Business segment](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-monitoring/small-business), these platforms consistently rank at the top:

- [Dash0](https://www.g2.com/products/dash0/reviews): An OpenTelemetry-native observability platform that is purpose-built for modern cloud-native stacks and earns strong marks from startup engineering teams for its clean onboarding experience.
- [IBM Instana](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-instana/reviews): An automated APM and infrastructure monitoring tool that leverages AI to deliver continuous discovery and monitoring with minimal manual configuration.
- [Better Stack](https://www.g2.com/products/better-stack/reviews): A developer-first uptime monitoring and logging platform that startup teams consistently recommend for its simplicity and fast setup.

#### Which Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software is the most user-friendly for startups?

Startup teams need tools that engineers can adopt quickly without extensive onboarding. In the [Small Business](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-monitoring/small-business) segment, ease of use and ease of setup are the clearest differentiators. The following tools earn top marks from startup reviewers on both dimensions:

- [Oodle AI](https://www.g2.com/products/oodle-ai/reviews): An AIOps-driven monitoring platform that reviewers at smaller companies highlight for its intuitive anomaly detection and low learning curve.
- [Middleware](https://www.g2.com/products/middleware/reviews): A unified observability tool built around developer experience, earning strong ease-of-use scores from startup engineering teams looking for an all-in-one solution.
- [Cloudshot](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudshot/reviews): A cloud infrastructure monitoring tool that startup reviewers frequently cite for its accessible interface and quick time-to-value.

#### Which Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software has the best customer support for small businesses?

Responsive and effective support is critical for small teams that lack dedicated ops staff. Based on Quality of Support scores from SMB reviewers, these tools stand out:

- [CubeAPM](https://www.g2.com/products/cubeapm/reviews): Earns the highest Quality of Support scores in the dataset overall, with small business reviewers frequently calling out responsive and knowledgeable support teams.
- [Oodle AI](https://www.g2.com/products/oodle-ai/reviews): An AIOps observability platform praised by SMB users for attentive customer success and fast issue resolution.
- [Paessler PRTG](https://www.g2.com/products/paessler-prtg/reviews): A long-established monitoring platform with mature support infrastructure that small business reviewers consistently rate highly for quality and availability.

#### What is the easiest Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software to set up for small teams?

For small teams with limited DevOps resources, fast and friction-free setup is a top priority. Ease of Setup scores from SMB reviewers point to these platforms as the quickest to get running:

- [Netdata](https://www.g2.com/products/netdata/reviews): Deploys as a single agent with near-zero configuration and begins surfacing real-time metrics in minutes, making it one of the fastest tools to get started with.
- [Site24x7](https://www.g2.com/products/site24x7/reviews): A cloud-hosted monitoring platform that SMB reviewers highlight for its guided onboarding and broad out-of-the-box integrations that reduce manual setup time.
- [Dash0](https://www.g2.com/products/dash0/reviews): Designed around OpenTelemetry standards, Dash0 earns strong setup ratings from smaller teams who appreciate its straightforward instrumentation process.

### Enterprise FAQs

#### What are the best-rated Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software for tech enterprises?

Large technology organizations need monitoring platforms that can scale across complex, multi-cloud environments while maintaining high performance and reliability. In G2's [Enterprise](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-monitoring/enterprise) segment, these tools earn the strongest overall ratings from verified reviewers at large companies:

- [Catchpoint](https://www.g2.com/products/catchpoint/reviews): An internet performance monitoring platform used by large tech enterprises to monitor end-user experience and digital service reliability at scale.
- [Checkmk](https://www.g2.com/products/checkmk/reviews): A comprehensive infrastructure monitoring platform with enterprise editions that support large-scale deployments across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- [LogicMonitor](https://www.g2.com/products/logicmonitor/reviews): A SaaS-based infrastructure monitoring platform purpose-built for enterprise IT, earning strong ratings from large organizations for its breadth of integrations and AIOps capabilities.
- [Cloudshot](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudshot/reviews): A cloud infrastructure and cost monitoring platform widely used by enterprise teams that earns high satisfaction and recommendation scores at scale.

#### What are the most reliable Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software tools for enterprises?

Reliability in enterprise monitoring means consistent uptime, accurate alerting, and minimal false positives at scale. Based on Meets Requirements and overall ratings from enterprise reviewers in G2's [Enterprise](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-monitoring/enterprise) segment, the following platforms are considered the most dependable:

- [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews): A cloud monitoring and security platform with one of the highest Meets Requirements scores in the dataset, widely used by large enterprises for its reliability across infrastructure, APM, and log management.
- [New Relic](https://www.g2.com/products/new-relic/reviews): A full-stack observability platform that enterprise teams rate highly for consistent performance and dependable alerting across distributed systems.
- [Sumo Logic](https://www.g2.com/products/sumo-logic/reviews): A cloud-native log management and analytics platform that earns strong Meets Requirements scores from enterprise security and operations teams.
- [IBM Instana](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-instana/reviews): An automated APM platform designed for enterprise microservices environments, rated highly for continuous discovery and reliable performance monitoring.

#### What are the best-reviewed Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software for enterprise app integration?

Enterprise organizations often need monitoring tools that integrate seamlessly with existing ecosystems, including CI/CD pipelines, ITSM platforms, cloud providers, and data warehouses. Based on integration depth and overall enterprise reviewer satisfaction in G2's [Enterprise segment](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-monitoring/enterprise), these platforms lead on app integration:

- [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews): Offers one of the broadest integration libraries in the category, covering 700+ technologies, making it a go-to for enterprises with complex, heterogeneous environments.
- [LogicMonitor](https://www.g2.com/products/logicmonitor/reviews): A SaaS monitoring platform with deep integrations into enterprise tools like ServiceNow, PagerDuty, and major cloud providers, frequently cited by large organizations for its out-of-the-box connectivity.
- [Sumo Logic](https://www.g2.com/products/sumo-logic/reviews): A cloud-native analytics platform that enterprise reviewers highlight for its robust integration with security tools, DevOps pipelines, and third-party data sources.

#### What are the most recommended Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software for large-scale DevOps teams?

DevOps teams at enterprise scale need monitoring tools that fit naturally into CI/CD workflows, support high-cardinality data, and reduce alert fatigue. Based on Likely to Recommend scores and review content from enterprise users in G2's [Enterprise](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-monitoring/enterprise) segment, these platforms earn the highest endorsement from DevOps practitioners:

- [Grafana Labs](https://www.g2.com/products/grafana-labs/reviews): An open, composable observability platform built around Grafana's visualization engine, widely adopted by DevOps teams for its flexibility and strong community ecosystem.
- [New Relic](https://www.g2.com/products/new-relic/reviews): A full-stack observability platform with one of the highest Likely to Recommend scores in the dataset, consistently praised by DevOps engineers for its breadth of telemetry and developer-centric workflows.
- [Checkmk](https://www.g2.com/products/checkmk/reviews): A robust monitoring platform that enterprise DevOps teams recommend for its ability to scale across complex environments without sacrificing operational simplicity.

#### Which Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Software offers the best AIOps capabilities for enterprises?

AIOps capabilities, including anomaly detection, automated root cause analysis, and intelligent alerting, are increasingly prioritized by enterprise teams managing large-scale cloud environments. Based on enterprise reviewer feedback in G2's [Enterprise](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-monitoring/enterprise) segment, these platforms are recognized for their AI-driven monitoring features:

- [IBM Turbonomic](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-turbonomic/reviews): An AI-powered application resource management platform that automates infrastructure optimization decisions in real time, widely deployed in enterprise multi-cloud environments.
- [Oodle AI](https://www.g2.com/products/oodle-ai/reviews): An AIOps observability platform purpose-built for anomaly detection and intelligent alerting, earning strong satisfaction scores from enterprise teams looking to reduce noise and accelerate incident response.
- [Dynatrace](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews): A full-stack observability platform with a proprietary AI engine (Davis AI) that enterprise reviewers credit for precise root cause analysis and automated problem detection across complex cloud environments.

**Last updated on April 24, 2026**