Alternatives to Coroot
Investigate application behavior using automatically collected observability data. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Coroot
Investigate application behavior using automatically collected observability data.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Coroot.
SigNoz
Open-source full-stack observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse.
SigNoz combines APM, logs, traces and metrics on OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse, relying on instrumentation instead of Coroot's eBPF-based automatic collection.
Apache SkyWalking
Observe distributed applications through traces, metrics and related service information.
Apache SkyWalking is fully free Apache-2.0 software for traces and service metrics, but requires deploying collectors and configuring instrumentation rather than eBPF collection.
OpenObserve
Collect logs, metrics and traces in a unified observability application.
OpenObserve collects logs, metrics and traces in one AGPL-3.0 application, with enterprise features and hosted services priced separately.
Uptrace
Explore traces, metrics and logs collected through OpenTelemetry.
Uptrace explores OpenTelemetry traces, metrics and logs under AGPL-3.0, requiring telemetry instrumentation and a supported storage setup instead of eBPF collection.
HyperDX
Investigate application failures using linked logs, traces and related telemetry.
HyperDX is MIT-licensed and links logs, traces and related telemetry for debugging production failures, but needs instrumentation and supporting data storage.
Pinpoint
Trace application requests across distributed services.
Pinpoint is free Apache-2.0 tracing that visualizes service relationships and request paths, relying on language-specific agents rather than eBPF.
OneUptime
An open-source platform for uptime monitoring, status pages, incidents, on-call alerting and observability.
OneUptime covers logs, metrics and traces plus uptime monitoring, status pages and on-call paging, making it a larger platform that takes more effort to self-host.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Coroot as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
New Relic
A hosted observability platform for application performance, infrastructure, logs and alerting, with a free tier.
Coroot is Apache-2.0 self-hosted observability that combines service views, metrics and traces using eBPF collection on compatible Linux hosts.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Prometheus
Metrics database that scrapes targets and evaluates alerting rules.
Grafana
Dashboard and visualization front end for metrics, logs and traces.
Jaeger
Follow requests across services to investigate distributed-system latency.
OpenTelemetry Collector
Receive, process and export telemetry through a vendor-neutral collector.
Netdata
Per-second metrics for a machine with no configuration, and charts that appear the moment you install it.
Grafana Tempo
Store and query distributed traces with a dedicated tracing back end.
