Comparison

Glowroot vs Lumigo

No clear leader: Lumigo (53.0) and Glowroot (52.6) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Glowroot53

Lumigo53

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Glowroot	Lumigo
Vioscale score	53 / 100medium · 53%	53 / 100medium · 73%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	-	✓
Modelpricing.model	open_source	freemium
Price levelpricing.price_level	free	low
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✗
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	50	5
Security
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	-	✓
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	-	✓
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	4.2	-
Soc2security.soc2	-	✓
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.glowroot%3Aglowroot-agent-api&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0	-
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	13	-
Github starsadoption.github_stars	1,355	-
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	27	-
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	19	-
Historyrelease.history	20 items	-
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	Apache-2.0	-
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Java	-

Score

Vioscale score

Glowroot53 / 100medium · 53%

Lumigo53 / 100medium · 73%

Pricing

Free tier

Glowroot–

Lumigo✓

Model

Glowrootopen_source

Lumigofreemium

Price level

Glowrootfree

Lumigolow

Transparent

Glowroot✓

Lumigo✗

Integrations

Count

Glowroot50

Lumigo5

Security

Gdpr

Glowroot–

Lumigo✓

Hipaa

Glowroot–

Lumigo✓

Scorecard

Glowroot4.2

Lumigo–

Soc2

Glowroot–

Lumigo✓

Vulnerabilities

GlowrootCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.glowroot%3Aglowroot-agent-api&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0

Lumigo–

Reliability

Status page

Glowroot✓

Lumigo✓

Adoption

Dependent repos

Glowroot13

Lumigo–

Github stars

Glowroot1,355

Lumigo–

Activity

Commits last 30d

Glowroot27

Lumigo–

Release

Cadence days

Glowroot19

Lumigo–

History

Glowroot20 items

Lumigo–

License

Spdx

GlowrootApache-2.0

Lumigo–

Language

Primary

GlowrootJava

Lumigo–

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for apm tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for APM Tools
Capability	Glowroot	Lumigo
Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation	✓	✓
Distributed tracing	✓	✓
Insight
Service map	-	✓
Code / continuous profiling	✓	-
Database monitoring	✓	-
Error analytics	✓	✓
Real-user monitoring	-	-
SLO / error-budget tracking	-	-
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI	-	✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry support	None	OTel-native
Core
Language agents	Java	-
Deployment
Hosting	Self-hosted only	Cloud + self-hosted

Instrumentation

Auto-instrumentation

Glowroot✓

Lumigo✓

Distributed tracing

Glowroot✓

Lumigo✓

Insight

Service map

Glowroot-

Lumigo✓

Code / continuous profiling

Glowroot✓

Lumigo-

Database monitoring

Glowroot✓

Lumigo-

Error analytics

Glowroot✓

Lumigo✓

Real-user monitoring

Glowroot-

Lumigo-

SLO / error-budget tracking

Glowroot-

Lumigo-

Intelligence

Anomaly / root-cause AI

Glowroot-

Lumigo✓

Standards

OpenTelemetry support

GlowrootNone

LumigoOTel-native

Core

Language agents

GlowrootJava

Lumigo-

Deployment

Hosting

GlowrootSelf-hosted only

LumigoCloud + self-hosted

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Glowroot

Glowroot is a Java application performance monitoring (APM) tool that captures request traces, provides continuous profiling, response time analysis, and database monitoring with extensive library and framework instrumentation.

Independently observed

Lumigo

Lumigo is an AI-powered observability platform providing root cause analysis, distributed tracing, and log management for microservice environments across AWS, Kubernetes, and OpenTelemetry.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Glowroot

Open source

as of 2026-08-03verify ↗

Lumigo

from $119/moSubscriptionFree tier14-day trial

From $99/mo (annual). Free tier with 150k traces/mo. 14-day free trial.

BasicFree
- 150k Traces/mo
- 14 Day Trace Retention
- 5GB/mo Logs
- 3 Days Log Retention
- 5GB/mo Metrics
- +3 more
Standard$99/mo annual, $119/mo monthly
- 1M Traces/mo
- 14 Day Trace Retention
- 40GB/mo Logs
- 7 Days Log Retention
- 40GB/mo Metrics
- +4 more
Plus$299/mo annual, $359/mo monthly
- 5M Traces/mo
- 14 Day Trace Retention
- 100GB/mo Logs
- 30 Days Log Retention
- 100GB/mo Metrics
- +4 more
CustomContact sales
- Custom Traces
- Custom Trace Retention
- Custom Log Volume
- Custom Log Retention
- Custom Metrics
- +9 more

as of 2026-08-03verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Glowroot	Lumigo
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✗	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✓

Platforms

Web

Glowroot✓

Lumigo✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Glowroot✗

Lumigo✓

Self-hosted

Glowroot✓

Lumigo✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Glowroot

39 total

Apache Camel
Cassandra
EJB
Elasticsearch
Grails
Hibernate
Apache HttpClient
Apache HttpAsyncClient
AsyncHttpClient
OkHttp
JavaMail
JAX-RS
JAX-WS
JDBC
JMS
JSF
JSP
Kafka
JUL
Log4j
Logback
MongoDB
Netty
Play Framework
+15 more

Independently observed

Lumigo

5 total

Kubernetes
AWS
OpenTelemetry
Serverless Framework
CircleCI

Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.