Tools

Collector / Agent

Collects the telemetry data from the target system Either through Agent, API/SDK or Scrapping

• Prometheus
• OTel
• vmagent

Observability backend (storage)

• TSDB / Storage Backend

• Prometheus TSDB

• VictoriaMetrics
• Thanos
• Cortex / Grafana Mimir
• InfluxDB
• Graphite

Observability frontend (visualization)

• Grafana

Commercial all-in-one solutions

• Grafana Cloud: Hosted Prometheus, Mimir, Loki (logs), Tempo (traces), all integrated.
• Datadog: All-in-one observability platform. Strong in enterprise monitoring. Metrics, logs, and traces.
• New Relic: Full observability platform. Good metrics ingestion and visualization.
• Dynatrace: AI-powered observability. Strong in large enterprises.
• Amazon Managed Prometheus (AMP): Fully managed Prometheus-compatible service on AWS.
• Google Cloud Managed Prometheus: Fully managed, Prometheus-compliant metrics stack.