ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) Alternatives (September 2025)

Middleware observability platform provides complete visibility into your apps & stack, so you can monitor & diagnose issues at scale.

Empower your operations with Motadata: Unified Observability & IT Service Management. Gain insights, streamline tasks, & optimize performance

Gain unified visibility, find and fix problems faster and take control of your data and costs.

Chronosphere is the only cloud native observability platform that helps teams quickly resolve incidents while controlling costs. Learn how.

Generate infinite insights for all observability data at scale with Coralogix – when and where you need them – with no limitations

Modern mobile observability built on OpenTelemetry. Discover the only user-focused, mobile-first observability solution built on OTel.

Get started investigating issues with Splunk Log Observer. Resolve incidents faster through log filtering, aggregations, and analysis.

Honeycomb is a software debugging tool that can help you solve problems faster within your distributed services. Try Honeycomb for free today!

100% of your data for every possible need: o11y, security, analytics, and new insights.

Observability and security for teams that love open source.

Grafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.

Unlocking deep insights with Full-Stack Observability, powerful SixthSense AI for Cognitive AIOps, Data Observability, and robust API Security.

What Is An Observability Pipeline?

Vector is a high-performance, end-to-end (agent & aggregator) observability data pipeline that puts you in control of your observability data. Collect, transform, and route all your logs, metrics, and traces to any vendors.

Gain end-to-end visibility with Riverbed Network Observability. Get actionable insights to swiftly resolve network performance issues.

observIQ brings clarity and control to your existing observability data chaos. BindPlane observability pipelines reduce cost, simplify collection, and transform your telemetry data while sending to the right destinations.

The Observability Pipeline that delivers monitoring as code on any cloud

Atatus is a full-stack observability tool that let you identify the performance bottlenecks and helps you optimize your application at the right time. Try it for free!!

Spot any issue that impacts important business KPIs with Splunk APM. Accelerate MTTR by combining all the related data in intuitive visuals.

Splunk IT Service Intelligence brings a unique approach to monitoring and troubleshooting. True AIOps predicts future incidents and automatically updates alerts.

See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere.

Innovate faster, operate more efficiently, and drive better business outcomes with observability, AI, automation, and application security in one platform.

Hybrid Cloud Observability. Our self-hosted full-stack Observability solution is built to optimize performance, ensure availability, and reduce remediation time.

groundcover - reinventing APM with eBPF. Monitor everything you build and run in the cloud without compromising on cost, granularity, or scale.

Cloud monitoring solutions for smarter and faster DevOps ✓ Full-stack visibility into your infrastructure and application performance ✓ Start now!

Sign up for free, no credit card required with New Relic the all-in-one observability platform for engineers to monitor, debug, and improve their entire stack.

Developer Observability Platform - securely & dynamically instrument logs, metrics & traces from your IDE in live production applications.

Get simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management solutions built to optimize today’s hybrid IT environments. Start your free trial today.

Kentik is the network observability company. Improve network observability, performance and security. Network performance monitoring and diagnostics for traffic, routing, synthetic testing, and cloud.

Get simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management solutions built to optimize today’s hybrid IT environments. Start your free trial today.

Learn more about Elastic Observability — the most widely deployed GenAI optimized observability solution. You get full stack visibility and actionable insights to go from real-time to proactive....

Get simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management solutions built to optimize today’s hybrid IT environments. Start your free trial today.

Get simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management solutions built to optimize today’s hybrid IT environments. Start your free trial today.

Acure.io is not just another monitoring system, it is an AIOps solution that integrates ALL other log and alert monitoring systems.

Get simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management solutions built to optimize today’s hybrid IT environments. Start your free trial today.

Get out-of-the-box full stack monitoring and observability, expert guidance and actionable insights in a single intuitive interface with StackState.

Netdata is a distributed real-time, health monitoring platform for systems, hardware, containers & applications, collecting metrics. Zero configuration needed.

Harness unparalleled operational insight with Apica's Observatory Platform. Designed for modern enterprises, our solution delivers scalable, powerful, and cost-effective APM monitoring for complex computing ecosystems.

Sumo Logic provides best-in-class cloud monitoring, log management, Cloud SIEM tools, and real-time insights for web and SaaS based apps.

Blameless is an incident management workflow solution that carries teams through a codified playbook from start to finish in one fluid motion.

Apache FlinkIntroducing a new development console that puts the full power of Apache Flink in the hands of your entire development team.

Shape the future of apps with AppDynamics cloud monitoring and Cisco Secure Application. Start your 15-day free trial today

Monitor, manage, troubleshoot, and optimize your cloud environment with the leading cloud observability and management platform.

meshIQ is an award winning middleware management platform that provides IT leaders to observe their integration infrastructure with ease.

Improve your security posture with an easy-to-use, affordable SolarWinds Security Event Manager (formerly Log & Event Manager). Try a free trial!

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is a real-time monitoring and troubleshooting solution for all environments, delivering speed, scale and flexibility.

Aiven for Apache Kafka – Managed event streaming Kafka service ✓ Microservices ✓ Event-driven architecture ✓ Streaming pipelines ✓

Self-hosted and cloud-based application performance monitoring & error tracking that helps software teams see clearer, solve quicker, & learn continuously.

Go beyond data observability, to AI-powered actionability for optimization and automated governance.

Gain deep visibility into infrastructure, services, and applications at enterprise scale through Sysdig Monitor. Installs in seconds - free trial!

Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Detect, diagnose and resolve issues that are affecting end users.

Mezmo is a cloud-based telemetry data pipeline that enables application owners to enrich, control, and correlate critical business data across domains.

Monitor the user experience on your app or network without privacy intrusive end user data collection agents or expensive backend telemetry data collection

Using AI/ML, Observo.ai elevates observability and helps you reduce security and observability costs by 50% or more while resolving incidents 40% faster

Explore WhyLabs, the leading platform for AI observability, LLM security, and model monitoring. Guardrail Generative AI applications in real-time to mitigate data leakage, prompt attacks, and hallucinations.

End to end Business Activity Tracking and Monitoring tool, For hybrid integration solutions involving Microsoft BizTalk Server & Azure Logic Apps

ServiceNow ITOM enables organizations to gain visibility across infrastructure and apps, maintain service health, and optimize cloud delivery and spend.

2 Steps Synthetic Monitoring can automate end-user experience testing across any application without requiring coding.

Cloud Insights from NetApp monitors your storage infrastructure so you can quickly troubleshoot and optimize public clouds and private data centers.

Pantomath is a data pipeline observability and traceability platform for automating data operations and improving data reliability through automated real-time monitoring and cross-platform pipeline lineage.

Discover Acceldata's data observability platform to improve data reliability, optimize costs, and enhance operational efficiency across hybrid environments.

Google Cloud’s operations suite is designed to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve cloud infrastructure, software, and application performance.

A powerful AIOps platform that provides cloud monitoring and multicloud management with automated discovery and remediation. Learn more.

In this video, you’ll learn how TruSTAR, now Splunk Intelligence Management, integrates with Splunk Enterprise and Enterprise Security deployments.

Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) allows your teams to quickly identify and eliminate customer-facing issues across your entire architecture.

IBM Instana Observability is the gold standard of incident prevention with automated full-stack visibility, 1-second granularity and 3-seconds to notify.

Moogsoft AIOps ensures continuous availability with automated noise reduction via industry leading anomaly detection algorithms. Learn more.

Gain end-to-end observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network both on cloud and hybrid environments with Azure Monitor.

ServiceNow Security Operations (SecOps) connects your existing security tools to prioritize and respond to vulnerabilities and security incidents faster.

Gain the visibility and information to deliver focused patient care with Healthcare and Life Sciences Management by ServiceNow.

Cloud Trace is a distributed tracing system that collects latency data from your applications and finds performance bottlenecks in production.

Accelerate incident response with Splunk On-Call: automated scheduling, intelligent routing, and machine learning mean less downtime and more insights.

Data Automation is the achilles heels of Observability, AIOps, Security and Service Management. AI Driven End-to-End Network Operations

Cribl is built for IT and Security data and provides a unified data management platform for exploring, collecting, processing, and accessing that data at scale.

The most secure no-code integration platform ZigiOps. Connect ServiceNow, Jira, BMC, and 50+ apps in a few clicks.

Monte Carlo’s Data Observability platform increases trust in data by eliminating data downtime, so engineers innovate more and fix less.

Automatically discover all the systems in your infrastructure involved in a business process, so you have total visibility as changes or additions happen over…

Lumigo is a monitoring and troubleshooting platform for microservice environments, built for developers.

Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.

The only data observability solution integrated into your dbt pipelines. Monitor data pipelines in minutes, in your dbt project. Elementary is built for and trusted by 5000+ analytics and data engineers.

Gain visibility into the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud-powered apps on Google Cloud and other cloud or on-premises environments.

Aerospike provides organizations with a real-time, multi-model database that fits their needs to scale, manage cloud services, and reduce cost.

Control risk, reduce software spend, and arrive quickly at outcomes—all from a single platform with Software Asset Management by ServiceNow.

Confluent makes it easy to connect your apps, data systems, and entire business with secure, scalable, fully managed Kafka and real-time data streaming, processing, and analytics.

EMQX: The most scalable MQTT Broker for IoT. Connect 100M+ IoT devices in 1 cluster at 1ms latency. Move and process millions of MQTT messages per second.

A service mesh for observability, security in depth, and management that speeds deployment cycles.

Using the right application security solution helps protect your apps and websites. Learn more about application security and performance solutions.

Infoblox NIOS 9.0.1 delivers advanced encrypted security and privacy for enterprises (DoT/DoH), expands multi-cloud automation and templated API integrations, and strengthens cost-effective DDI reliability for hybrid networks of any size—today and into the future.

An IT service management (ITSM) solution that understands what it takes to successfully manage your employee services. Try SolarWinds Service Desk for free!

Easily track IT expenses related to mobile, fixed, and cloud in one scalable, automated platform natively built on ServiceNow.

IT Service Management (ITSM) aligns with ITIL standards to manage access and availability of services, fulfill service requests, and streamline services.

Fauna combines the relational power, strong consistency, and schema capabilities of a relational database with the flexibility and scalability of documents, all delivered as a Cloud API with zero engineering operations.

TrueSight Infrastructure offers early, accurate detection, diagnosis, prioritization, and resolution of service issues.

Anodot detects and groups anomalies across silos to help you find and fix business incidents in real-time.

Application optimization onsite, in the cloud, or for apps anywhere.

Aiven for PostgreSQL – Managed Postgres database service with Postgres extensions, database forking, connection pooling.

Create free hosted status pages to keep your users informed about real-time incidents. Easily set up status pages to monitor uptime, downtime, etc. Try now!

Cloud Accelerate automates workflows for everyday cloud management, including cloud disposition decisions and cloud governance.

Metaplane is a data observability platform that helps data teams know when things break, what went wrong, and how to fix it.