European Alternatives to Dynatrace
Looking for a European alternative to Dynatrace? Dynatrace LLC is the default contracting party and a Delaware company, its agreement is governed by Delaware law with Delaware courts unless a local Dynatrace affiliate sells to you, and its own sub-processor page says the group is headquartered in the United States.
Eleven European tools cover different parts of the job: infrastructure and network monitoring (Checkmk, Zabbix, Centreon, Icinga, Paessler PRTG, openITCOCKPIT), application performance and tracing (AppSignal, Tideways, Elastic) and telemetry platforms for large organisations (Apica, ITRS), from companies in Germany, Latvia, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
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11 European Alternatives to Dynatrace
Checkmk
Munich monitoring with a free Community edition and published prices from €190 a month for Pro
Zabbix
Riga open-source monitoring under AGPLv3, with unlimited hosts and subscriptions from €245 a month
Centreon
Paris infrastructure monitoring, free up to 100 hosts, with per-host tiers billed annually
AppSignal
Dutch APM with errors, logs and uptime, a permanent free plan and a €219 a year paid plan
Icinga
Nuremberg monitoring with a Forever Free edition for unlimited hosts and paid support and modules
Elastic Observability
Amsterdam-based logs, infrastructure, APM and user monitoring on one search platform
Paessler PRTG
Nuremberg sensor-based network and server monitoring with a 100-sensor freeware edition
openITCOCKPIT
Fulda monitoring suite from it-novum with a free Community edition and an Enterprise tier
Apica
Stockholm telemetry platform for logs, metrics and traces under Swedish law, prices on request
ITRS
London real-time monitoring (Geneos, Opsview) for large and regulated organisations, prices on request
Tideways
Bonn PHP APM with profiling, tracing and exception tracking, 14-day trial without a card
Key takeaways
- Dynatrace's default contracting party is Dynatrace LLC, a Delaware company, with Delaware law and courts unless a local affiliate sells to you.
- Checkmk (Munich) is the broadest self-hosted option: a free Community edition, then Pro from €190 and Ultimate from €275 a month on annual billing, with application monitoring in Ultimate.
- Zabbix (Riga) has no per-host licence: subscriptions start at €245 a month for Silver and cover unlimited hosts, but its subscription terms are not public.
- Centreon (Paris) is free to 100 hosts and lists €425 a month for 125 hosts on its IT edition, billed annually.
- AppSignal (Netherlands) is the one to look at for application performance: a free plan, then €219 a year, under Dutch law.
- Apica, Elastic and ITRS are the closest in ambition to Dynatrace, but their prices are on request or not verified, and Elastic's paid contract entity could not be confirmed.
Why people leave Dynatrace
Dynatrace is an enterprise observability platform. One agent discovers hosts, processes and services, maps how they depend on each other, and its AI points to a probable root cause when something breaks. On its pricing page it sells host-based monitoring (Foundation & Discovery at $7 per host per month, Infrastructure Monitoring at $29, Full-Stack at $58 per 8 GiB host) plus usage-based logs, metrics and traces, under one annual commitment, with a free trial.
The contract is where the European question sits. In the Subscription Agreement, "Dynatrace" is the entity named on your order form; if none applies, the Dynatrace entity in the country where your company is headquartered; and if there is none, Dynatrace LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. Article 24 then picks Delaware law and Delaware courts, unless a Dynatrace affiliate sells to you, in which case the law and courts of that affiliate's country apply.
Dynatrace's own sub-processor page says personal data can be accessed by group staff in any country where the group operates, "including the United States where Dynatrace LLC is headquartered", and lists US providers (AWS, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and others), though hosting regions in Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands exist. This page is about tools that replace what Dynatrace does and sit with a European contracting party. None of them replicates all of it.
- The default counterparty is a Delaware company Unless your order form names a local Dynatrace entity, the agreement runs with Dynatrace LLC under Delaware law and Delaware courts. You can ask for a European affiliate on the order form, and it is worth asking. With the tools below, the contracting party is a company in Germany, Latvia, France, the Netherlands, Sweden or the United Kingdom, with its own courts as the forum.
- The DPA permits transfers to the United States The Dynatrace DPA authorises transfers of customer personal data from the EEA, the UK and Switzerland to the United States, backed by the EU standard contractual clauses (module two). That is lawful and common. It is still a cross-border transfer you must document, and the European tools here that you host yourself avoid it altogether, because the data never leaves your servers.
- Pricing follows hosts and data volume Dynatrace is billed per host and per GiB, against a platform commitment, and the Subscription Agreement caps renewal uplift at 8, 9 or 10 percent for a 1, 2 or 3 year renewal. Zabbix and Icinga (free edition) have no host limit, Checkmk and Centreon publish a monthly price per host band, and AppSignal publishes €219 a year, which makes spend easier to forecast.
- You may not need everything it does Dynatrace covers infrastructure, application tracing, logs, user experience and security. Many teams use two or three of those. If your need is servers and network, an infrastructure monitor is a closer fit and far cheaper. If it is application tracing for one language, a focused APM is. The list below is grouped by that difference.
What you have to replace, not just match
Start from what you actually use in Dynatrace: infrastructure and host health, application tracing, log analytics, real user monitoring, synthetic tests or the AI root-cause view. Infrastructure monitoring and application tracing are separate jobs in the European market, and few tools do both well. Expect to combine two, for example Checkmk or Zabbix for infrastructure with AppSignal or Elastic for application traces.
Run the new tool next to Dynatrace for a full month on a representative part of the estate before you switch off agents. Compare alerts, not dashboards: which tool told you first, and which told you why. Keep the OpenTelemetry route in mind, and instrument new code with it so the next move is cheaper.
The alternatives compared
| Position | Tool | Headquarters | Pricing | Jurisdiction |
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| #1 | Checkmk | Munich, Germany | Free Raw Edition; paid editions priced per monitored service | EU (Germany) |
| #2 | Zabbix | Riga, Latvia | Free and open source; paid support and services | EU (Latvia) |
| #3 | Centreon | Paris, France | Free self-hosted IT-100 edition up to 100 hosts (no time limit); self-hosted Business from €283/month (125 hosts); SaaS IT Edition from €425/month (125 hosts) and Pro from €1,125/month (250 hosts), billed annually | EU (France) |
| #4 | AppSignal | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Free plan (50K requests) / €219 per year for 250K requests a month, logging add-on €89/month | EU (Netherlands) |
| #5 | Icinga | Nuremberg, Germany | Free and open source; paid subscription for support | EU (Germany) |
| #6 | Elastic Observability | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Free tier / custom pricing | EU (Netherlands) |
| #7 | Paessler PRTG | Nuremberg, Germany | PRTG 500 from $200/month, PRTG 1000 from $358/month, PRTG 2500 from $742/month, PRTG 5000 from $1,300/month, PRTG 10000 from $1,642/month, billed annually; also available as PRTG Hosted Monitor or on-prem Enterprise Monitor for larger environments | EU (Germany) |
| #11 | Tideways | Bonn, Germany | Team from €69/month, Business from €159/month, both rising in tiers with request volume; Enterprise on request | EU (Germany) |
How each alternative compares to Dynatrace
- Which law reaches it. EU (Germany). Dynatrace is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Self-hosted, or Checkmk Cloud.
- Source code. Open source, where Dynatrace is not: you can read what it does rather than take the description on trust.
Best for: IT teams that want infrastructure and hybrid-cloud monitoring on their own servers or as SaaS
Checkmk is provided by Checkmk GmbH, Kellerstraße 27 in Munich, registered at the Munich District Court as HRB 165902. Its March 2026 terms say the contractual partner is either Checkmk GmbH (German law, Munich courts) or Checkmk, Inc. in Atlanta (Delaware law), depending on the order form, and that trials for customers in Europe are with Checkmk GmbH.
Its pricing page lists a free Community edition for small infrastructures (about 100 hosts), Pro from €190 a month and Ultimate from €275 a month on annual billing, plus a SaaS edition and a separate Synthetic Monitoring product that includes 3 free tests. Ultimate is the edition that adds application monitoring and advanced cloud integrations.
It is a monitoring system built around hosts and services, not an agent that traces every request. Expect solid infrastructure and cloud coverage, and less of Dynatrace's automatic code-level view.
What Checkmk does better than Dynatrace
- Free Community edition and published euro prices
- Runs on your own servers, so data stays where you put it
- German company with Munich as the forum for GmbH customers
- Lower cost per host than Dynatrace's Full-Stack list price
Where Checkmk is a step down from Dynatrace
- Less automatic code-level tracing and AI root-cause analysis
- You operate and size the system yourself when self-hosted
- Contractual partner can be the US entity, depending on the order form
- Community edition is aimed at about 100 hosts
Standout against Dynatrace. A free edition plus two paid tiers with euro prices on the page, and a clear statement of which entity you contract with.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Latvia). Dynatrace is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Self-hosted — wherever you run it.
- Source code. Open source, where Dynatrace is not: you can read what it does rather than take the description on trust.
Best for: Large estates where per-host pricing is the problem
Zabbix is built by SIA Zabbix, registered in Latvia (number 40003738045) at Gustava Zemgala gatve 74 in Riga, which its privacy policy names as the controller. The software is released under AGPLv3 from version 7.0. The contact page also lists Zabbix LLC in New York and an office in France, and the footer credits Zabbix LLC.
Its subscription page says there are no per-device limits: Silver is €245 a month and Gold from €660 a month, billed annually, with Platinum, Enterprise and Global on request. A subscription buys support, response times and security fixes, not the licence. Zabbix Cloud is offered with a free trial.
The subscription terms are not published on the site, so which entity you sign with and which law applies could not be verified. Ask before you sign.
What Zabbix does better than Dynatrace
- No licence fee and no host, user or metric limits
- Open source under AGPLv3, so you can self-host and inspect it
- Published euro prices for support tiers
- Latvian company named as controller in its privacy policy
Where Zabbix is a step down from Dynatrace
- Subscription terms and governing law are not public
- No built-in automatic code-level tracing like Dynatrace
- Self-hosting means you run and tune it yourself
- A US entity (Zabbix LLC) is also listed on the site
Standout against Dynatrace. Cost does not grow with host count; you pay for support, not for scale.
- Which law reaches it. EU (France). Dynatrace is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Source code. Open source, where Dynatrace is not: you can read what it does rather than take the description on trust.
Best for: Mid-size IT teams with hybrid estates that want per-host tiers on a clear price list
Centreon is edited by CENTREON SAS, registered in Paris under RCS 483 494 589 with share capital of €500,000, at 28/34 rue du Château des Rentiers (legal notice last updated January 2022). Its navigation describes an open-source core under Apache 2.0.
Its pricing page is titled "Free up to 100 Hosts" and lists the IT Edition at €425 a month for 125 hosts (about €3.40 a host) and the Pro Edition at €1,125 a month for 250 hosts, both billed annually and tapering beyond that. It also sells Centreon Log Management and Experience Monitoring as separate products. The Monitoring Agent supports the OpenTelemetry protocol, per the page.
It is an infrastructure and service monitor. It does not discover application code the way Dynatrace's agent does.
What Centreon does better than Dynatrace
- Free tier up to 100 hosts
- Published euro prices per host band
- French company with a registered number and capital in its legal notice
- Add-ons for logs and user experience
Where Centreon is a step down from Dynatrace
- Narrower than Dynatrace on application tracing and AI analysis
- Pro edition pricing beyond 250 hosts is on request
- Legal notice dates from January 2022
- Terms of use could not be located for a governing-law statement
Standout against Dynatrace. A free tier, a €425 entry price for 125 hosts, and 700+ connectors on one price list.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Netherlands). Dynatrace is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Netherlands, on Worldstream B.V., with backups on Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL; an optional US region exists.
- Source code. Closed source, as Dynatrace is.
- Independently checked. ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR; HIPAA as a paid add-on.
Best for: Development teams who want errors, performance and logs for web applications
AppSignal is provided by AppSignal B.V., registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce in Amsterdam under number 62960407. The terms are exclusively governed by Dutch law, with the court of 's-Hertogenbosch as the forum.
Its plans page lists a free plan (30K requests, 1 GB of logs, 5 days of retention) and a paid plan at €219 a year, which is €18.25 a month, for 250K requests a month, with a 30-day trial and no card. Long-term log export and a HIPAA add-on are €89 a month each. It describes itself as ISO 27001 certified.
It monitors applications: performance, errors, logs, uptime. It does not monitor servers and networks across an estate.
What AppSignal does better than Dynatrace
- A permanent free plan and a €219 a year entry price
- Dutch law and a Dutch court in the terms
- Errors, performance, logs and uptime in one tool
- Simple to try: 30-day trial, no card
Where AppSignal is a step down from Dynatrace
- Application-level only, no infrastructure or network monitoring
- Plans page lists application monitoring, logging and uptime, not host or network monitoring
- Free plan keeps data for 5 days only
Standout against Dynatrace. Priced at €219 a year on the page, where Dynatrace asks for an annual platform commitment.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Germany). Dynatrace is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Self-hosted — wherever you run it.
- Source code. Open source, where Dynatrace is not: you can read what it does rather than take the description on trust.
Best for: Teams with Linux and network estates that value automation and open tooling
Icinga is provided by Icinga GmbH, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 in Nuremberg, registered in the Nuremberg trade register under HRB 35189, with managing directors named in the imprint.
Its pricing page describes a Forever Free edition, free and open source, with unlimited hosts and services and connections to Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB and Elasticsearch. Paid subscriptions come with a 60-day trial, support and enterprise modules. The prices on the page change with the region selected, so no figure is quoted here.
It is a monitoring and alerting system for infrastructure and services, extended with modules and integrations, rather than an all-in-one observability platform.
What Icinga does better than Dynatrace
- Free edition with no host or service limits
- German company with a trade register number in its imprint
- 60-day trial of the paid subscription
- Integrates with Grafana, Prometheus and InfluxDB
Where Icinga is a step down from Dynatrace
- Not an application tracing or AI root-cause tool
- Prices vary by region and could not be fixed here
- Expect to assemble dashboards and storage from other tools
- Support and enterprise modules cost extra
Standout against Dynatrace. A free edition for unlimited hosts, from a company that publishes its trade register entry.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Netherlands). Dynatrace is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Self-hosted, or Elastic Cloud in EU regions.
- Source code. Open source, where Dynatrace is not: you can read what it does rather than take the description on trust.
- Independently checked. GDPR.
Best for: Teams that already use Elasticsearch and want logs, traces and infrastructure in one place
Elastic describes observability covering infrastructure monitoring, APM and distributed tracing, digital experience monitoring (real user monitoring and synthetics) and logs, plus LLM observability. Its privacy statement (effective 7 September 2026) is issued by Elastic N.V., Keizersgracht 281 in Amsterdam, and its Terms of Use and Cloud trial terms are with elasticsearch B.V.
The terms say the site is controlled and operated from offices in Amsterdam and Mountain View, California. The entity and governing law of a paid Elastic subscription could not be established from the pages reachable, and the pricing page did not show amounts in text. The trial is free to start.
It is the broadest of the European options here, but also the one with the most open contract questions.
What Elastic Observability does better than Dynatrace
- Logs, APM, tracing, infrastructure and user monitoring on one platform
- Free trial of the hosted service
- Dutch company in its privacy statement and Dutch entity in the trial terms
- Built on a search engine, which suits teams that query their own data
Where Elastic Observability is a step down from Dynatrace
- Paid contract entity and governing law not verified
- Operates from Amsterdam and Mountain View
- Less automated discovery and root-cause analysis than Dynatrace
- Prices could not be verified
Standout against Dynatrace. The only European option here that covers logs, APM, infrastructure and user monitoring in one product.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Germany). Dynatrace is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Self-hosted, or PRTG Hosted Monitor (managed cloud).
- Source code. Closed source, as Dynatrace is.
Best for: IT departments that want a quick start on networks, servers and cloud services
PRTG is made by Paessler GmbH, Thurn-und-Taxis-Str. 14 in Nuremberg, registered at the District Court of Nuremberg as HRB 43342.
Its pricing page offers a Freeware edition with up to 100 sensors (for about 10 devices) and a 30-day trial with no limit on sensors or devices. Paid licences are sold by sensor count, and the page listed them in US dollars (for example PRTG 500 at $200 a month, billed annually), which may differ by region, so no price is quoted here.
It excels at networks and infrastructure, with a licensing model by sensors rather than hosts. It is not an application tracer.
What Paessler PRTG does better than Dynatrace
- Freeware edition and an unrestricted 30-day trial
- German company with its register entry in the imprint
- Quick to set up for network and server monitoring
- Sensor-based licences that are easy to size
Where Paessler PRTG is a step down from Dynatrace
- Sensor counts grow quickly in large estates
- No application tracing or AI analysis comparable to Dynatrace
- Price shown in dollars, region dependence unclear
- Network and infrastructure focus
Standout against Dynatrace. A 30-day trial with no sensor limit and a freeware edition for small setups.
openITCOCKPIT
a German monitoring suite with a free edition, from it-novum
Best for: Organisations that want a free monitoring edition now, with the option to buy more later
openITCOCKPIT is from it-novum GmbH, Edelzeller Straße 44 in Fulda, registered at the Fulda District Court as HRB 1934. The imprint states that it is a company of Allgeier SE.
Its editions page says the Community Edition is a fully free version for infrastructure and application monitoring, and the Enterprise Edition adds integrations with other monitoring and ITSM systems, business modules and mechanisms for distributed, scalable and highly available monitoring. No prices are shown on the page.
It is a smaller product than the leaders in this list, and its fit with Dynatrace is on infrastructure monitoring.
What openITCOCKPIT does better than Dynatrace
- Free Community edition
- German company with a register number in its imprint
- Enterprise edition adds ITSM integrations and high availability
- Group ownership stated openly (Allgeier SE)
Where openITCOCKPIT is a step down from Dynatrace
- No prices on the pages checked
- Not an application tracing tool
- No AI-based root-cause analysis described on the pages checked
Standout against Dynatrace. A free Community edition from a company that states in its imprint that it belongs to Allgeier SE.
Apica
Swedish telemetry platform for logs, metrics and traces
Best for: Larger teams that want to control telemetry pipelines and costs under Swedish law
In its terms, "Apica" means APICA AB, its affiliates or entities it authorises, and the terms are governed by Swedish law with the Swedish courts as the exclusive forum. Its privacy policy (last updated 3 November 2021) gives the address as Malmskillnadsgatan 32 in Stockholm.
Its homepage lists products for controlling and routing telemetry before ingestion (Flow), storing and querying it (Lake), correlating logs, metrics and traces (Observe) and managing collectors (Fleet). Prices are not published: the pricing link leads to a contact page.
It is aimed at organisations with large telemetry volumes, which is Dynatrace's own territory, but its pages show less about automatic discovery and root-cause analysis.
What Apica does better than Dynatrace
- Swedish law and Swedish courts in the terms
- Focus on controlling telemetry cost and routing
- Logs, metrics and traces correlated in one platform
- Contract with a Swedish company (APICA AB)
Where Apica is a step down from Dynatrace
- No public prices
- Affiliates may also be the contracting party
- Privacy policy last updated in 2021
- No hosting regions or sub-processors verified
Standout against Dynatrace. It is built around the telemetry pipeline itself, with the governing law and forum stated in plain text.
ITRS
London real-time monitoring for large and regulated estates
Best for: Large organisations with Geneos or Opsview-style estates and a procurement process
ITRS Group Limited is registered at Companies House under number 02873731, incorporated on 19 November 1993, at 15 Bonhill Street in London, and is named as controller in its privacy notice (updated 5 November 2025). The United Kingdom is outside the EU but is within the set this directory accepts.
Its site presents Geneos for real-time application and infrastructure monitoring and Opsview for IT infrastructure monitoring, and says it was named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring. There is no public price list.
Customer terms, hosting regions and ownership could not be verified from its pages. It suits large organisations that buy through a sales process.
What ITRS does better than Dynatrace
- Long-established UK company with a verifiable register entry
- Real-time monitoring for large estates
- Two products: Geneos and Opsview
- Digital experience monitoring recognised by an analyst
Where ITRS is a step down from Dynatrace
- No public prices
- Customer terms and ownership not verified
- UK, not EU or EEA
- Not for small teams that want to try it today
Standout against Dynatrace. The longest-running company on this list, with a Companies House entry going back to 1993.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Germany). Dynatrace is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Germany, in SysEleven data centres in Berlin, where account, monitoring and profiling data are all stored.
- Source code. Closed source, as Dynatrace is.
Best for: Teams running PHP applications (Magento, Shopware and others) who need profiling and tracing
Tideways is provided by Tideways GmbH, Königswinterer Straße 116 in Bonn, registered at the Bonn District Court as HRB 22127. Its terms are published at tideways.com/tos and it publishes a data processing agreement.
Its pricing page offers a 14-day trial with no credit card or phone number, and prices rise in tiers of monthly requests (5 million, 15 million, 50 million and up). The amounts are rendered in the browser, so no figure is quoted here. Features include monitoring and APM, error and exception tracking, and profiling and tracing.
It covers one language ecosystem. For anyone running mixed stacks, it replaces only a slice of what Dynatrace does.
What Tideways does better than Dynatrace
- German GmbH with a register number in its imprint
- 14-day trial with no card
- Profiling and tracing designed for PHP
- Published DPA and terms
Where Tideways is a step down from Dynatrace
- PHP only
- Prices could not be verified
- No infrastructure or log analytics at Dynatrace's breadth
- Scope is one language ecosystem
Standout against Dynatrace. A narrow tool that does one language well, with a trial that needs no card.
What actually breaks when you switch
The hardest part of leaving Dynatrace is rebuilding what the agent gave you for free: automatic topology, service dependency maps and the problem view. In Checkmk, Zabbix or Icinga you define hosts and checks, and that takes configuration time. Budget for it in weeks, not days.
Run both tools in parallel before you cancel. Dynatrace renewals are capped by the agreement (8, 9 or 10 percent for 1, 2 or 3 year renewals), so check your renewal date and notice period before you commit to a migration plan.
Self-hosted tools shift cost from licence to operations. A free edition of Zabbix or Icinga still needs servers, storage sizing, upgrades and someone on call. Count that cost next to the Dynatrace invoice.
Is there a European tool that replaces all of Dynatrace?
No single one, on the evidence of their own pages. Dynatrace combines automatic discovery, application tracing, logs, user monitoring and AI-assisted root-cause analysis in one platform. Elastic Observability is the nearest in breadth, with infrastructure, APM and tracing, user experience monitoring and logs, and Apica and ITRS sell telemetry platforms to large organisations.
Most European alternatives are strong in one layer. Checkmk, Zabbix, Centreon, Icinga, PRTG and openITCOCKPIT are infrastructure monitors. AppSignal and Tideways are application monitors. Plan for a small stack rather than a single replacement.
Which of these are free to start?
Checkmk has a free Community edition (about 100 hosts), Zabbix is open source with no licence fee, Centreon is free up to 100 hosts, Icinga offers a Forever Free edition with unlimited hosts and services, PRTG has a Freeware edition up to 100 sensors, and openITCOCKPIT has a free Community edition. AppSignal has a free plan with 30K requests a month and 5 days of retention.
Elastic and Tideways offer free trials (Tideways 14 days, no card). Apica and ITRS sell by quote. A free edition is not a free operation: self-hosting means you run, patch and size the system yourself.
Can I keep the data inside Europe?
Self-hosting is the clearest answer: Checkmk, Zabbix, Centreon, Icinga, PRTG and openITCOCKPIT all run on your own servers, in your own region. For hosted services, ask where the cloud runs. Dynatrace also hosts in Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands on its sub-processor list, so location is not the only question; the contracting party and the staff-access clause are.
AppSignal, Elastic and Apica are hosted offerings. Their hosting regions and sub-processor lists could not be verified for this page, so check them before you sign.
Do any of these accept OpenTelemetry?
Centreon's Monitoring Agent supports the OpenTelemetry standard protocol, according to its pricing page. For the other tools, OpenTelemetry support was not verified on their own pages, so ask which signals (metrics, logs, traces) each one accepts before you rely on it.
Dynatrace also ingests OpenTelemetry (metrics and traces via OTLP, per its pricing page), so instrumenting with OpenTelemetry keeps your options open in both directions.
Which one to pick
If you mainly want to monitor servers, networks and cloud services with predictable cost, Checkmk is the broadest option with published prices, and Zabbix is the one to choose if per-host licensing is the problem. Centreon is the one for a French contract and a clear price list.
If your need is application performance, start with AppSignal for web applications, or Tideways if you run PHP. If you need logs, traces and infrastructure on one platform, ask Elastic, Apica and ITRS for a quote and for the name of the contracting entity.
Be realistic about the gap. None of the eleven matches Dynatrace's automatic discovery and AI root-cause analysis in a single product, and a move means building a small stack. Switch if you want a European contracting party and the option to host the data yourself, and ask for a local Dynatrace affiliate on your order form if you stay.
Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on the job. For infrastructure and application monitoring you run yourself, Checkmk is the broadest and publishes its prices; Zabbix is the pick if you want no per-host licence. For application performance, AppSignal. For a platform in the same league on logs, APM and user monitoring, look at Elastic Observability, Apica or ITRS, and ask each for a quote and the contracting entity.
Not for contract purposes by default. The Subscription Agreement names Dynatrace LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, when no other entity applies, and the sub-processor page says Dynatrace LLC is headquartered in the United States. Dynatrace also has affiliates in other countries, and if one of them sells to you, the agreement follows that country's law.
Its US pricing page lists Foundation & Discovery at $7 per host per month, Infrastructure Monitoring at $29, and Full-Stack Monitoring at $58 per 8 GiB host, with logs ingest at $0.20 per GiB and metrics at $0.15 per 100,000 datapoints, all under an annual platform commitment. There is a free trial. Real contracts are negotiated, so treat these as list prices.
Checkmk lists a free Community edition, Pro from €190 a month and Ultimate from €275 a month, billed annually, on a band of 100 hosts. Zabbix has no licence fee; subscriptions with support start at €245 a month for Silver and from €660 for Gold, billed annually, for unlimited hosts. Centreon is free up to 100 hosts and lists €425 a month for 125 hosts on its IT edition and €1,125 for 250 hosts on Pro, billed annually.
AppSignal has a free plan with 30K requests, 1 GB of logs and 5 days of retention. The paid plan is €219 a year (€18.25 a month) on its plans page, for 250K requests a month, with a 30-day trial and no credit card required. The contract is with AppSignal B.V., registered in Amsterdam, under exclusive Dutch law.
Not necessarily. Its terms of March 2026 say the contractual partner is either Checkmk GmbH in Munich or Checkmk, Inc. in Atlanta, depending on the order form. Trials for customers with a registered office in Europe, the Middle East, Africa or APAC are with Checkmk GmbH. For GmbH customers German law applies with the courts of Munich; for Inc. customers Delaware law applies. Ask which entity is on your quote.
The privacy policy names SIA Zabbix, registered in Latvia (number 40003738045) in Riga, as controller. The contact page also lists Zabbix LLC in New York and a French office, and the site footer is credited to Zabbix LLC. The subscription terms are not published on the site, so the governing law of a paid subscription could not be verified. Ask before you sign.
Yes. AppSignal and Tideways are application performance tools (Tideways for PHP), Elastic Observability covers APM and tracing alongside logs and infrastructure, and Checkmk's Ultimate edition lists application monitoring. Infrastructure monitors such as Zabbix, Icinga and PRTG can watch the services your applications depend on, but they are not code-level tracers.
ITRS Group Limited is registered at Companies House (number 02873731) with its office at 15 Bonhill Street in London, which is the controller named in its privacy notice. The United Kingdom is outside the EU but inside the set this directory accepts. Pricing is on request and the group's ownership could not be verified on its own pages.
They do not convert. Dynatrace dashboards, alerting profiles and its query language have no direct import in these tools, so plan to rebuild the ones you use. Export the list of alerts people actually act on and recreate those first. Keep the old tenant read-only for the retention window you need, since your history stays with Dynatrace.
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