alternative to Datadog

Prometheus

VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

Accepts Prometheus remote write and scrape configs, queried with PromQL-compatible MetricsQL.

Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.

Adds long-term storage in object storage and a global query view on top of Prometheus.

A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.

Horizontally scaled, multi-tenant long-term storage for Prometheus metrics, fed by remote write.

Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.

Horizontally scalable, multi-tenant long-term storage for Prometheus metrics.

About

The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

Owner: Prometheus organisation
Stars: 68k
Forks: 11k
Latest: v3.16.0
Last push: 2026-11-11
Terms: Open source
Self-hosted: Yes
Deploy with: Container image, Binaries
Created: 2012, 13 years ago
Release cadence: about 8 days between releases
Active contributors: 77+ commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days
Platforms: Linux (x86_64, arm64, x86, armv7, arm, riscv64, ppc64le, s390x), macOS (x86_64, arm64), Windows (x86_64, arm64, x86), FreeBSD (x86_64, arm64, x86, armv7, arm), NetBSD (x86_64, arm64, x86, armv7, arm)
Stars over 32 days: 2026-10-12 66,4872026-11-12 67,561

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