What is Sematext?
Full-stack observability platform providing log management, infrastructure monitoring, distributed tracing, and synthetic monitoring with transparent, usage-based pricing.
Sematext 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.
From $2.8/host/month for Infrastructure Monitoring. 14-day free trial. Modular pricing: Logs from $5/month, Service Monitoring from $8.64/month, Tracing from $19/month, Synthetics from $2/monitor/month. No overage charges with Max Daily Volume limits.
Infrastructure Monitoring - Basic
Basic infrastructure monitoring with 1 day retention
- data_retention
- 1 day
- free_containers
- 3 per host
- 1 alert rule
- Out of box dashboards
- Heartbeat alerts
- Email alerting
- Role-based access
- Unlimited users
- Account sharing
- App sharing
- Service discovery
- Logs integration
- Events integration
- Custom metrics and charts
- Unlimited dashboards
- Saved views
Infrastructure Monitoring - Standard
Standard infrastructure monitoring with 7 days retention and scheduled reporting
- data_retention
- 7 days
- free_containers
- 5 per host
- Unlimited alert rules
- Out of box dashboards
- Heartbeat alerts
- Email alerting
- Role-based access
- Unlimited users
- Account sharing
- App sharing
- Service discovery
- Logs integration
- Events integration
- Custom metrics and charts
- Unlimited dashboards
- Saved views
- Scheduled reporting
- Dedicated account manager
Infrastructure Monitoring - Pro
Professional infrastructure monitoring with up to 365 days retention, anomaly detection, and advanced features
- data_retention
- up to 365 days
- free_containers
- 8 per host
- Unlimited alert rules
- Out of box dashboards
- Heartbeat alerts
- Email alerting
- Role-based access
- Unlimited users
- Account sharing
- App sharing
- Service discovery
- Logs integration
- Events integration
- Custom metrics and charts
- Unlimited dashboards
- Saved views
- Scheduled reporting
- Anomaly detection
- ChatOps integrations
- WebHooks integration
- Inventory reports
- Process reports
- Dedicated account manager
What Sematext does
The capabilities that matter for observability tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Metrics
- ✓
- Log management
- ✓
- Distributed tracing
- ✓
- Application performance monitoring
- ✓
- Real-user monitoring
- ✓
- Alerting
- ✓
- On-call / incident management
- ✗
- Dashboards
- ✓
- OpenTelemetry-native
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud only
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (7)
Independently observed- Slack
- Elasticsearch
- Solr
- OpenSearch
- WebHooks
- ChatOps
- CI/CD
Sematext alternatives
Other observability tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- ChronosphereObservability Purpose Built for Kuberneteslow · 16%
- NetdataThe only agent that thinks for itselfmedium · 61%
- GroundcoverThe full-stack observability platform for engineers & agentsmedium · 50%
- Grafanamedium · 62%
- OpenTelemetry CollectorThe open standard for telemetrylow · 30%
- Datadogmedium · 63%
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 Sematext, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 30.00 | 1500.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 92 | 12.00 | 1099.6 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 26 | 16.00 | 415.5 | ✓ |
| 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 | {"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"cloud","metrics":true,"on_call":false,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 7 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |