Observability & analytics
13 SaaS · open-source self-host alternatives in this vertical
Every SaaS in this category, paired with its primary open-source self-host alternative. Each link drills into the full comparison page (license, setup time, monthly cost, migration sketch). Managed-hosting picks for self-hosters: managed Grafana, Prometheus, Plausible, PostHog, Uptime Kuma, or GoAccess.
- Amplitude Product analytics / event tracking / funnelsPrimary self-host alt: PostHog · PostHog/posthog ·
MIT· 20min docker-compose (the official `hobby` deploy is one command) - Datadog Observability (metrics + logs + traces + APM)
- Fathom Analytics Privacy-first web analyticsPrimary self-host alt: Plausible Analytics · plausible/analytics ·
AGPL-3.0· 15min docker-compose (Elixir app + ClickHouse + Postgres) - FullStory Session replay + product analyticsPrimary self-host alt: OpenReplay · openreplay/openreplay ·
Elastic-2.0· 1h docker-compose or k8s (multi-service: backend + Postgres + Redis + ClickHouse + MinIO) - Google Analytics Web analytics
- Honeycomb Distributed tracing / observabilityPrimary self-host alt: SigNoz · SigNoz/signoz ·
MIT· 30min docker-compose (SigNoz + ClickHouse + collector) - Mixpanel Product analyticsPrimary self-host alt: PostHog · PostHog/posthog ·
MIT (core) / Functional Source (cloud-only modules)· 30min docker-compose (single-node) - New Relic APM / observability platformPrimary self-host alt: SigNoz · SigNoz/signoz ·
MIT· 30min docker-compose (SigNoz + ClickHouse + Zookeeper + OTel collector) - PagerDuty On-call rotation / incident response / pagingPrimary self-host alt: Keep · keephq/keep ·
MIT· 30min docker-compose (keep-frontend + keep-backend + websocket-server; SQLite default, swap to Postgres via `DATABASE_CONNECTION_STRING`) - Sentry Error tracking / APM
- Splunk Log management + SIEMPrimary self-host alt: Graylog · Graylog2/graylog2-server ·
SSPL-1.0· 30min docker-compose (Graylog + OpenSearch + MongoDB) - Statuspage (Atlassian) Public status page / incident communicationPrimary self-host alt: Cachet · cachethq/cachet ·
MIT· 20min docker-compose (PHP/Laravel + Postgres or MySQL) - UptimeRobot External uptime / availability monitoring
FAQ
How many open-source self-host alternatives does os-alt list for observability & analytics?
13 SaaS in the observability & analytics vertical, each paired with its primary open-source self-host alternative on os-alt.
Are these observability & analytics alternatives free?
Yes — every listed alternative is open source and free to self-host. Your only cost is the VPS or hardware that runs it.
What managed-hosting options does os-alt suggest for observability & analytics?
Managed-hosting picks for self-hosters: managed Grafana, Prometheus, Plausible, PostHog, Uptime Kuma, or GoAccess.