Best Infrastructure Monitoring in 2026
29 infrastructure monitoring ranked on what their makers publish — plans and prices, free tiers, platforms and the facts on their own pages.
| # | Platform | Score | Why | From | Free plan | Paid from | Included hosts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zabbix | 8.8 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | 50 /mo | — | View |
| 2 | Checkmk | 8.5 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $275/mo | Yes | — | — | View |
| 3 | Azure Monitor | 8.4 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | No | — | — | View |
| 4 | Nagios XI | 8.1 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | 100 hosts | View |
| 5 | openITCOCKPIT | 8.0 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | €0.08/mo | Yes | — | — | View |
| 6 | LogicMonitor | 7.7 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $16/mo | No | 16 /mo | — | View |
| 7 |  Netdata | 7.3 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $4.50/mo | Yes | 4.5 /mo | — | View |
| 8 | Icinga | 7.0 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 9 |  Site24x7 Server Monitoring | 6.9 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | 9 /mo | 2 hosts | View |
| 10 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Registry | 6.9 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 11 | Sensu Go | 6.8 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | 3 /mo | 100 hosts | View |
| 12 | Prometheus | 6.6 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 13 | XorMon | 6.3 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 14 | Mackerel | 6.2 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 15 |  ScienceLogic SL1 | 6.1 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | No | 5 /mo | — | View |
| 16 | Sematext Monitoring | 5.9 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | 2.8 /mo | — | View |
| 17 |  Gyeeta | 5.8 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 18 | Checkmate | 5.8 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 19 |  Monitorix | 5.7 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 20 | Google Cloud Monitoring | 5.6 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | No | — | — | View |
| 21 |  Monit | 5.5 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 22 | MetricsHub | 5.5 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | 15 /mo | — | View |
| 23 |  eG Enterprise | 5.4 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | No | 100 /mo | — | View |
| 24 |  Fivenines | 5.4 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | No | — | — | View |
| 25 |  Performance Co-Pilot | 5.2 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | — | — | — | View |
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Questions about this list
Which infrastructure monitoring is ranked first on Inferse?
Zabbix is ranked #1 of 29 with a score of 8.8. Checkmk is second and Azure Monitor third.
How many of these have a free plan?
19 of the 25 on this page publish a free plan on their own pricing pages.
Which is the cheapest paid option?
On this page, openITCOCKPIT has the lowest first paid tier we found: €0.08/mo.
How is this list ranked?
Ranked on what each maker publishes, open and connectable first: a public API, open-source code, the depth of its documentation and a free tier to try it on. Model lists are sorted by the figure in their title, exactly as each provider publishes it. Paid placements never change a rank.