European Alternatives to Datadog & New Relic - Monitoring & APM (2026) | European Purpose

European Monitoring & APM Alternatives

Looking for a GDPR-compliant alternative to Datadog or Sentry? European monitoring solutions offer error tracking, APM, and observability with EU data residency.

7 European Monitoring & Observability

Prometheus

Open-source monitoring

9.1
Open Source Free
MetricsAlertingPromQL
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Elastic APM

Application performance monitoring

8.6
Netherlands From free
APMLogsSelf-hosting
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Netdata

Real-time monitoring

8.5
Open Source Free
Real-time metricsSelf-hostingNo limits
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Better Stack

Uptime and incident management

8.4
Czech Republic From free
Uptime monitoringIncident managementStatus pages
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Checkly

API and browser monitoring

8.3
Germany From free
Synthetic monitoringAPI checksPlaywright
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GlitchTip

Open-source error tracking

7.9
Open Source Free (self-host)
Error trackingSentry-compatibleSelf-hosting
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Uptrace

Open-source APM

7.8
Open Source From free
Distributed tracingMetricsLogs
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How We Choose European Monitoring & Observability

  • EU hosting option
  • Self-hosting
  • APM capabilities
  • Log management
  • Alerting

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, GlitchTip is Sentry-compatible and can use Sentry SDKs. You can self-host it in Europe for complete data control at a fraction of the cost.

Elastic APM and Uptrace offer comparable APM features. For metrics, Prometheus with Grafana is the industry standard open-source stack that can be self-hosted.

Yes, Better Stack (Czech Republic) and Checkly (Germany) offer uptime monitoring with European data processing and global check locations.