Observability tools explored for a tech startup

Open Source | Self managed Service

Open Source	Focus	Tech Stack	Comments
Grafana	Visualisation	TypeScript / Golang	Grafana Suite
Loki (Grafana)	Logging	Golang	Grafana Suite
Tempo (Grafana)	Distributed tracing	Golang	Grafana Suite
Prometheus	Metrics	Golang	CNCF
Jeager	Distributed tracing	Golang	CNCF
Elasticsearch	Search (used for logging & metrics)	JVM (Java)	ELK Suite
Logstash	Log collecting	JVM (Java/Ruby)	ELK Suite
Kibana	Visualisation	TypeScript	ELK Suite
Zipkin	Distributed tracing	JVM / TypeScript	from Twitter
Sentry	Error tracking	Python

Proprietary | Managed Service

Proprietary	Focus	Pricing
Datadog	Strong Infra Monitoring -> Platform	Avg
New Relic	Strong APM -> Platform	Avg
Dynatrace	AI APM -> Platform	Avg
Splunk	Log/Security -> Platform	High
Honeycomb	Distributed tracing	Low
Rollbar	Error tracking	Low

Inbuilt tools from Cloud Computing Providers

IaaS Inbuilt	Quality	Pricing
AWS	hard to use, bad experience	Low
GCP	formerly stack driver, better experience	Low

To avoid platform lock in and to peruse unified multi cloud dashboard, these inbuilt tools are depreciated. However they will be cheapest out-of-box solution without too much maintenance effort.