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Observability Software with Archiving & Retention (2026)

Last updated: April 2026

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The modern test stack

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With Test Observability you can automatically identify flaky tests, analyse test failures using AI, and monitor quality with built-in dashboards.

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Machine data management and analytics

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Splunk Enterprise is a cloud-based platform designed to assist businesses with big data management and analysis of machine data. Key features include data visualization, performance metrics, data collection, real-time search, indexing, KPI tracking, reporting, and monitoring.

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The AI SRE observability stack

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Better Stack lets you see inside any stack, debug any issue, and resolve any incident.

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Unified Logs & Metrics for Full App Visibility

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Sumo Logic is a log management and data analytics software that creates information based on data feeds. It assesses server, application and website performances by creating graphs and charts. It creates alerts when data reaches certain levels which in turn notify of potential threats/downtime.

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Machine data analytics based on ELK and Grafana

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Unified platform for monitoring, troubleshooting and security based on ELK and Grafana.

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Achieve holistic IT infrastructure monitoring with OpManager

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ManageEngine OpManager Plus is an AIOps software designed to help businesses monitor networks, servers, IP addresses, switch ports, bandwidth, network configurations, firewall rules, logs, policies, application usage, and storage devices. IT admins can perform an in-depth analysis of IT performance parameters, including health, availability, device utilization, and more.

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The Unified Telemetry Pipeline Enterprises Depend On

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ObservIQ is a comprehensive telemetry platform designed to optimize and simplify your observability pipeline. It reduces observability costs, routes telemetry across sources and destinations efficiently, and manages fleets of agents with ease, supporting up to 10GB per day and 10 agents for free.

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Cloud-based log management tool for IT teams.

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Frustration-free log management. Get started in seconds. Instantly manage logs from 2 servers... or 2,000.

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Instant log visibility. Use Papertrail's time-saving log tools, flexible system groups, team-wide access, long-term archives, charts, and analytics exports, monitoring webhooks, and 45-second setup.

Realize value from logs you already collect. Track down customer problems, error messages, app requests, slow DB queries, and config changes.

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Unified cloud observability to debug issues faster

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Middleware is a real-time cloud native observability platform that helps businesses debug issues by unifying all metrics, logs, and traces in one timeline.

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Turn your AWS S3 into a hot, searchable analytic data lake.

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CHAOSSEARCH is a fully managed log analytics platform that leverages your AWS S3 as a data store. Our revolutionary technology radically lowers costs for analyzing log data at scale and we pass those savings on to you! Try CHAOSSEARCH today!

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Automated Observability

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Edge Delta is a new way to do observability. We process your data as it's created and give you the freedom to route it anywhere. Make observability costs predictable, surface the most useful insights, and shape your data however you need.

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Apica is an operational Data fabric that provides Limitless Data, Control & Insights.

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Open source based observability stack featuring logs, traces

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Observe any stack at scale with open source based observability stack featuring logs, traces and metrics – all under one roof

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