Comparison

Last9 vs Middleware

On the evidence we track, Middleware leads this comparison with a composite score of 71/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Last948
★Middleware71
Score
vioscaleAI score
Last948 / 100medium · 72%
Middleware71 / 100medium · 74%
Pricing
Free tier
Last9✓
Middleware✓
Model
Last9free
Middlewarefreemium
Price level
Last9free
Middlewarelow
Starting price
Last9–
Middleware$0.30
Transparent
Last9✗
Middleware✓
Integrations
Count
Last9100
Middleware450
Security
Gdpr
Last9✓
Middleware✓
Hipaa
Last9✓
Middleware–
Iso27001
Last9–
Middleware✓
Soc2
Last9–
Middleware✓
Reliability
Status page
Last9✓
Middleware✓
Content
Faq
Last97 items
Middleware7 items

Capabilities

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

Signals
Metrics
Last9✓
Middleware✓
Log management
Last9✓
Middleware✓
Distributed tracing
Last9✓
Middleware✓
Application performance monitoring
Last9✓
Middleware✓
Real-user monitoring
Last9✓
Middleware✓
Response
Alerting
Last9✓
Middleware✓
On-call / incident management
Last9✓
Middleware-
Insight
Dashboards
Last9✓
Middleware✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry-native
Last9✓
Middleware✓
Deployment
Hosting
Last9Cloud only
MiddlewareCloud only

What each one is

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

Last9

Last9 enables teams to monitor applications and infrastructure through metrics, logs, and traces collected via OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. It offers service discovery, real-user performance monitoring, threshold-based and anomaly detection alerting, service-level objective tracking, and dashboarding for visibility across cloud infrastructure and applications.

Independently observed

Middleware

Leader

A platform that helps teams monitor cloud systems and applications in real-time, automatically detect problems, analyze their root causes, and resolve them efficiently.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Last9

FreeFree tier
as of verify ↗

Middleware

Leader
from $0.30/gbUsage-basedFree tier14-day trial

Free tier with 100GB/month. Pay-as-you-go from $0.3/GB. Custom pricing with BYOC option.

  • FreeFree
    • Unlimited Users
    • Community Based Support
    • 14 day retention
  • Pay As You Go$0.3/GB logs, metrics, traces; $1 per 1K RUM sessions
    • Error solving with OpsAI
    • Ingestion Control & Data Pipeline
    • 30 day retention
    • SSO and Security Features
    • Dedicated Slack/MS Teams Channel
  • BYOCContact sales
    • Dedicated Account Team
    • Multi-year Contract Discounts
    • Custom Data Retention
    • Bring Your Own Cloud
    • 24x7 Support
    • +3 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Last9✓
Middleware✗
iOS
Last9✓
Middleware✓
Android
Last9✓
Middleware✓
macOS
Last9✗
Middleware✓
Windows
Last9✗
Middleware✓
Linux
Last9✗
Middleware✓
CLI
Last9✓
Middleware✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Last9✓
Middleware✓
Self-hosted
Last9✗
Middleware✓

Integrations

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

In common (10)
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Go
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus
  • iOS
  • Google Cloud

Last9

76 total - 66 not shared
  • PagerDuty
  • Opsgenie
  • Jira
  • Telegram
  • Zenduty
  • Google Chat
  • Flock
  • Webhook
  • GitHub Actions
  • ArgoCD
  • Buildkite
  • Jenkins
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • ECS
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Oracle
  • DynamoDB
  • RDS
  • S3
  • Cassandra
  • +42 more
Independently observed

Middleware

Leader
15 total - 5 not shared
  • Stripe
  • Amazon S3
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Python
  • Node.js
Independently observed
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