What is Kamon?
Backend APM platform with high-fidelity metrics and distributed tracing. Monitor applications, fix performance issues, and receive alerts without requiring monitoring expertise.
Kamon pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Usage-based pricing from free tier to $89–$299/mo, Enterprise from $1499/mo
Starter
FreeGreat for getting started with observability in small projects
- trace_spans
- 10M/mo
- data_retention
- 1 day
- unique_metrics
- 5K
- High-fidelity metrics with up to 1% error margin
- End-to-end distributed tracing
- Service map with dependencies and realtime status
- Built-in integrations for HTTP, Database, and Akka services
- Track CPU, memory, and file system usage for unlimited hosts
- Search traces by any tag
- Analyze and compare metrics with smart filters and insights
- Receive in-app and email alert notifications
Teams
For teams getting serious about observability in production
- trace_spans
- 100M/mo
- unique_metrics
- 10K
- spans_retention
- 14 days
- metrics_retention
- 60 days
- High-fidelity metrics with up to 1% error margin
- End-to-end distributed tracing
- Service map with dependencies and realtime status
- Built-in integrations for HTTP, Database, and Akka services
- Track CPU, memory, and file system usage for unlimited hosts
- Search traces by any tag
- Analyze and compare metrics with smart filters and insights
- Receive in-app and email alert notifications
- Receive alert notifications via Slack and PagerDuty
- Sandboxes for staging and development data
Business
For growing organizations feeling the pains of scaling
- trace_spans
- 500M/mo
- unique_metrics
- 30K
- spans_retention
- 14 days
- metrics_retention
- 60 days
- High-fidelity metrics with up to 1% error margin
- End-to-end distributed tracing
- Service map with dependencies and realtime status
- Built-in integrations for HTTP, Database, and Akka services
- Track CPU, memory, and file system usage for unlimited hosts
- Search traces by any tag
- Analyze and compare metrics with smart filters and insights
- Receive in-app and email alert notifications
- Receive alert notifications via Slack and PagerDuty
- Sandboxes for staging and development data
- Onboarding workshops with the Kamon Telemetry developers
Enterprise
Contact sales- Custom instrumentation for in-house and unsupported libraries
- Custom capacity and data retention
- Dedicated support
- Volume discounts
- Annual billing
Add-ons
- Additional 10K metrics$90/mo
- Additional 100M spans per month$60/mo
What Kamon does
The capabilities that matter for apm tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Auto-instrumentation
- ✓
- Distributed tracing
- ✓
- Service map
- ✓
- Code / continuous profiling
- -
- Database monitoring
- ✓
- Error analytics
- -
- Real-user monitoring
- -
- SLO / error-budget tracking
- -
- Anomaly / root-cause AI
- -
- OpenTelemetry support
- OTLP ingest
- Language agents
- Scala, Akka, Play Framework, Spring Boot
- Hosting
- Cloud only
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (9)
Independently observed- Slack
- PagerDuty
- Prometheus
- Zipkin
- Jaeger
- Datadog
- Akka
- Spring Boot
- Play Framework
Kamon alternatives
Other apm tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Kamon, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 12.00 | 805.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 29 | 16.00 | 460.1 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 25 | 8.00 | 200.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 30.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 22.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"cloud","languages":"Scala, Akka, Play Framework, Spring Boot","service_map":true,"otel_support":"ingest","db_monitoring":true,"distributed_tracing":true,"auto_instrumentation":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 9 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |