# Last9 vs Sematext

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Sematext

| Attribute | Last9 | Sematext |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 48.4 (72% (medium)) | 65 (49% (low)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A unified observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and Prometheus that manages logs, metrics, and traces with high-cardinality storage. It includes AI-assisted incident investigation, real-time alerting, and user monitoring capabilities. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What is Last9?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Last9 offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"Is Last9 free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Last9 supports the web, iOS, Android and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What platforms does Last9 support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Last9, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"Can Last9 be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 54 integrations for Last9, including Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Zenduty and Google Chat, plus 46 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What does Last9 integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Last9. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Last9 not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What security certifications does Last9 have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Last9 is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the United Kingdom. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"Where is Last9 available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"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 | 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. | 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 | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"cloud","metrics":true,"on_call":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 | 100 | 100 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Opsgenie"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Telegram"},{"name":"Zenduty"},{"name":"Google Chat"},{"name":"Flock"},{"name":"Webhook"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"ArgoCD"},{"name":"Buildkite"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"ECS"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Redis"},{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"DynamoDB"},{"name":"RDS"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"Neo4j"},{"name":"Flask"},{"name":"Django"},{"name":"FastAPI"},{"name":"Express.js"},{"name":"React"},{"name":"Spring Boot"},{"name":"Laravel"},{"name":"Go"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"CloudWatch"},{"name":"Loki"},{"name":"Fluent Bit"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"iOS"},{"name":"Android"},{"name":"Flutter"},{"name":"React Native"},{"name":"Grafana Loki","category":"logs"},{"name":"Grafana Tempo","category":"tracing"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch","category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS Lambda","category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS ECS","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Azure Monitor","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Google Cloud","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Datadog Agent","category":"observability"},{"name":"Elastic Logstash","category":"logs"},{"name":"n8n","category":"workflow"},{"name":"Spinnaker","category":"ci_cd"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot","category":"ai"},{"name":"Claude Cowork","category":"ai"},{"name":"Grafana","native":true,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"iac","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Claude","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Argo Rollouts","native":true,"category":"deployment","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS CloudFront","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Fastly","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Akamai","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Cloud Functions","native":true,"category":"compute","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Apache","native":true,"category":"web_server","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Nginx","native":true,"category":"web_server","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"MariaDB","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Cloudflare","native":true,"category":"cdn","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":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"free","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://last9.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T23:06:22.032Z"}` | `{"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 | yes |
| pricing.model | free | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":5,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Last9 | 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 2026-10-16T20:59:03.087Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*