# Chronosphere vs Sematext

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Chronosphere

| Attribute | Chronosphere | Sematext |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 75.9 (47% (low)) | 65 (49% (low)) |
| content.faq | - | `[{"answer":"A managed cloud platform providing monitoring of infrastructure metrics, application performance, logs, traces, and user interactions designed for DevOps teams. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"What is Sematext?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Sematext offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $1.68 per host per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"Is Sematext free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Sematext supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"What platforms does Sematext support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Sematext, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"Can Sematext be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 21 integrations for Sematext, including Syslog, Angular, Custom Webhooks, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, Microsoft Teams, Akka and Ember, plus 13 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"What does Sematext integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Sematext is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"Where is Sematext available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A cloud-native observability platform designed for Kubernetes environments that uses AI to rapidly identify root causes, manage incidents, and cut observability data costs by filtering low-value data volumes while preserving critical insights. | Comprehensive platform that provides visibility into application and API performance, logs, metrics, and end-user experience. Uses synthetic monitoring and real-time alerting to detect performance degradation and downtime before they impact users. |
| features.capabilities | `{"logs":true,"hosting":"cloud","metrics":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"both","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` |
| integrations.count | 65 | 100 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","native":true,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Prometheus","native":true,"category":"metrics","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Fluent Bit","native":true,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Datadog","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"New Relic","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Splunk","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Elasticsearch","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Grafana Loki","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Dynatrace","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure Monitor","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Amazon CloudWatch","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud Operations Suite","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Kafka","native":false,"category":"messaging","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"OpenSearch","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Graylog","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"InfluxDB","native":false,"category":"metrics","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"VictoriaMetrics","native":false,"category":"metrics","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Slack","native":false,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Coralogix","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Sumo Logic","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Scalyr","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Fluentd","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Telegraf","native":false,"category":"metrics","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Clickhouse","native":false,"category":"data","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Oracle","native":false,"category":"data","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Chronicle","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Crowdstrike","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Amazon S3","native":false,"category":"storage","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud Big Query","native":false,"category":"data","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage","native":false,"category":"storage","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure Sentinel","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Confluent Cloud","native":false,"category":"messaging","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Redpanda Cloud","native":false,"category":"messaging","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Cloudflare","native":false,"category":"cdn","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud PubSub","native":false,"category":"messaging","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure Event Hub","native":false,"category":"messaging","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Amazon Kinesis","native":false,"category":"messaging","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Okta System Logs Collector","native":false,"category":"identity","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Microsoft Intune – Audit event","native":false,"category":"identity","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Mandiant ASM","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Exabeam","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Signal Sciences","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Workspace Audit","native":false,"category":"identity","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Splunk HEC","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Devo Cloud","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Axiom","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Observe","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Vercel Logs","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"inbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Syslog"},{"name":"Angular"},{"name":"Custom Webhooks"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"GitLab CI/CD"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Akka"},{"name":"Ember"},{"name":"Next.js"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Kibana"},{"name":"Apache Solr"},{"name":"OpenSearch"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS ECS","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"chat"},{"name":"AlertOps","native":true,"category":"alerting"},{"name":"PagerDuty","native":true,"category":"incident_management"},{"name":"Docker","native":true,"category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"Postman","native":true,"category":"api"},{"name":"Solr","native":true,"category":"search"},{"name":"SolrCloud","native":true,"category":"search"},{"name":"OpsGenie","category":"incident_management"},{"name":"Zapier","category":"automation"},{"name":"VictorOps","category":"incident_management"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | - | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | - | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Infrastructure Monitoring","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Network Map","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"host","amount":1.68,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"AI Agent Watch","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"host","amount":1.68,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false}],"summary":"From $5/month for infrastructure monitoring. Metered pricing for logs and traces based on volume and retention. 14-day free trial available for Status Pages.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-09-04T15:53:45.118Z","startingPrice":{"amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | - | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | - | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":5,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.99 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | https://chronosphere.io/security-overview/ | - |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Chronosphere | Sematext |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Signals** |  |  |
| Metrics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Log management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Distributed tracing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Application performance monitoring | - | ✓ |
| Real-user monitoring | - | ✓ |
| **Response** |  |  |
| Alerting | ✓ | ✓ |
| On-call / incident management | - | ✓ |
| **Insight** |  |  |
| Dashboards | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry-native | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:10:41.321Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*