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Monitoring and logging: which free tiers are still free?
Free tier status of 7 monitoring, logging and error tracking services, read from each vendor's public page on 2026-10-05. Status counts: 7 free.
| Tool | Still free? | Summary | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Better Stack | Yes | The $0 plan, described as free for personal projects, includes 10 monitors, 10 heartbeats, 1 status page and 3 GB of logs per month retained for 3 days. | 2026-10-05 |
| Datadog | Yes | The Free Infrastructure Monitoring plan covers up to 5 hosts with 1-day metric retention. | 2026-10-05 |
| Grafana Cloud | Yes | The always-free plan includes 10k active metric series, 50 GB each of logs, traces and profiles per month and 3 active users, with no credit card required. | 2026-10-05 |
| Honeycomb | Yes | The Free plan is described as free forever and includes up to 20M events per month, 2 triggers and unlimited seats. | 2026-10-05 |
| New Relic | Yes | The free tier includes 100 GB of data ingest per month, one full platform user and unlimited basic users, with no credit card required. | 2026-10-05 |
| Sentry | Yes | The Developer plan costs $0 for one user and includes 5k errors, 50 session replays, 5M spans and 5GB of logs. | 2026-10-05 |
| UptimeRobot | Yes | The Free plan includes 50 monitors checked every 5 minutes and 1 status page, with no credit card required. | 2026-10-05 |
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