# Kamon

> Observability Tools for Developers, not DevOps/SRE

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/kamon
- **Category:** APM Tools
- **Homepage:** https://kamon.io
- **Also known as:** kamon
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-03T13:14:58.112Z

## Vioscale score

**55.5 / 100**, confidence 20% (low).

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 25 | 8 | 200 | ✓ |
| reliability | 0 | 30 | 0 | - |
| capabilities | 67.1 | 12 | 805.4 | ✓ |
| integrations | 28.8 | 16 | 460.1 | ✓ |
| security_posture | 0 | 22 | 0 | - |
| pricing_transparency | 100 | 12 | 1200 | ✓ |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-03, [verify at source](https://kamon.io). Independently observed._

from $89/mo · Usage-based · Free tier

> Usage-based pricing from free tier to $89–$299/mo, Enterprise from $1499/mo

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Starter | Free | ✓ | monthly |
| Teams | $89/mo with 10K metrics, 100M spans/mo | - | monthly |
| Business | $299/mo with 30K metrics, 500M spans/mo | - | monthly |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | - | annual |

### Starter

Great for getting started with observability in small projects

**Included limits:** 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

**Included limits:** 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

**Included limits:** 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)

## About

Backend APM platform with high-fidelity metrics and distributed tracing. Monitor applications, fix performance issues, and receive alerts without requiring monitoring expertise.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment

- **Platforms:** Web
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS

## Integrations (9)

_Independently observed._

- Slack
- PagerDuty
- Prometheus
- Zipkin
- Jaeger
- Datadog
- Akka
- Spring Boot
- Play Framework

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for APM Tools. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **Instrumentation** | |
| Auto-instrumentation | ✓ |
| Distributed tracing | ✓ |
| **Insight** | |
| Service map | ✓ |
| Code / continuous profiling | - |
| Database monitoring | ✓ |
| Error analytics | - |
| Real-user monitoring | - |
| **Intelligence** | |
| Anomaly / root-cause AI | - |
| **Standards** | |
| OpenTelemetry support | OTLP ingest |
| **Core** | |
| Language agents | Scala, Akka, Play Framework, Spring Boot |
| **Deployment** | |
| Hosting | Cloud only |
| **Insight** | |
| SLO / error-budget tracking | - |

## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### integrations

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| integrations.count | 9 | [link](https://kamon.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://kamon.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.model | freemium | [link](https://kamon.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | high | [link](https://kamon.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.starting_gbp | 89 | [link](https://kamon.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | yes | [link](https://kamon.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |

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