Compare 24 free alternatives to Jaeger for Monitoring. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, with the read and catalogue dates we hold.

Best Jaeger Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

24 free alternatives in Monitoring. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Jaeger Situation

Risk Level: source unconfirmed
Why: The page we cite for Jaeger states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02. We are not publishing a stability judgement for it until that is fixed.
Category: Monitoring
Pricing Page: www.jaegertracing.io/

All Free Alternatives (24)

19 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 5 are demoted with the reason named, and 0 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.

Left out of this list: UptimeRobot (shares no subtype with this product), Pulsetic (shares no subtype with this product), Healthchecks.io (shares no subtype with this product), StatusCake (shares no subtype with this product), PagerDuty (shares no subtype with this product), Cronitor (shares no subtype with this product), Uptimia (shares no subtype with this product), OnlineOrNot (shares no subtype with this product), incident.io (shares no subtype with this product), StatusPile (shares no subtype with this product), assertible.com (shares no subtype with this product), Core Web Vitals History (none of this category's subtypes apply), deadmanssnitch.com (shares no subtype with this product), downtimemonkey.com (shares no subtype with this product), economize.cloud (none of this category's subtypes apply), incidenthub.cloud (shares no subtype with this product), linkok.com (none of this category's subtypes apply), loader.io (none of this category's subtypes apply), MonitorMonk (shares no subtype with this product), OntarioNet.ca CN Test (none of this category's subtypes apply), pagecrawl.io (shares no subtype with this product), pagertree.com (shares no subtype with this product), phare.io (shares no subtype with this product), pingbreak.com (shares no subtype with this product), Pingmeter.com (shares no subtype with this product), pingpong.one (shares no subtype with this product), robusta.dev (none of this category's subtypes apply), Servervana (shares no subtype with this product), sitesure.net (shares no subtype with this product), statusgator.com (shares no subtype with this product), SweetUptime (shares no subtype with this product), UptimeObserver.com (shares no subtype with this product), uptimetoolbox.com (shares no subtype with this product), Wachete (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

SigNoz stable
Free OSS
Monitoring Read 2026-09-28 · catalogue date 2026-08-27
Middleware.io stable
Free
Monitoring Read and confirmed 2026-09-10
netdata.cloud stable
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-15 · catalogue date 2026-07-08
Grafana stable
Free OSS
Monitoring Read 2026-09-09 · catalogue date 2026-08-27
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-19 · catalogue date 2026-07-11
Lite
Monitoring Read and confirmed 2026-09-10
New Relic stable
Free
Monitoring Read and confirmed 2026-09-16
Hyperping stable
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-10 · catalogue date 2026-07-07
Sematext stable
Basic (Free)
Monitoring Read 2026-09-20 · catalogue date 2026-07-05
Axiom stable
Personal
Monitoring Read and confirmed 2026-09-13
Free OSS
Monitoring Read 2026-09-18 · catalogue date 2026-08-27
Always Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-20 · catalogue date 2026-08-18
Sentry stable
Developer
Monitoring Read 2026-09-19 · catalogue date 2026-08-11
Free
Monitoring Read and confirmed 2026-09-22
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-26 · catalogue date 2026-09-08
skylight.io stable
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-07-13
BetterStack stable
Free
Monitoring Read and confirmed 2026-09-16
syagent.com stable
Free
Monitoring Read and confirmed 2026-09-25
Grafana Cloud stable
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-17 · catalogue date 2026-08-14
Free OSS
Monitoring Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-08-22
−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-07-11
−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
Datadog stable
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-08-12 · tried again 2026-09-24 and did not read the page
−1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 3 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-09-24 — The pricing page does not explicitly mention a free tier with the stated limits (5 hosts, 1-day retention). It broadly lists Infrastructure Monitoring as a product but doesn't detail free tier specifics within the provided text.), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor.
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-11 · catalogue date 2026-07-13
−3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal on 2026-08-28: The page highlights a 14-day free trial, and then lists paid plans starting at $4.99/mo. Source: https://xitoring.com/
Trial
Monitoring Read 2026-09-19 · catalogue date 2026-07-07
−3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal on 2026-08-28: The page now highlights a 14-day free trial and a starting plan at €19/month. Source: https://fivenines.io/
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Trial" is a trial that expires, not an ongoing free tier.
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-09-30
query_key
alternative-to:Jaeger
seed
5e7fa9a9cf43f530dbfa844c414d3fc56dba3fc29afbe051aea1ba73c463efac
tie_count
19

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Jaeger?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 24 free alternatives to Jaeger, each listed below with its tier, category and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 19 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 5 are demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is Jaeger's free tier still available?
We cannot confirm that today. The page we cite for Jaeger states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02. Our stored record says Jaeger offers a free tier (Free OSS), but we have not confirmed those terms against the source we cite.
How many free alternatives to Jaeger exist?
There are 24 free alternatives to Jaeger tracked on AgentDeals across the Monitoring category.
Has Jaeger changed their pricing?
We hold no recorded pricing changes for Jaeger, but the page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so that is a statement about our records rather than a positive signal.

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