Sematext

End-to-end visibility for modern teams

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sematext

What is Sematext?

Full-stack observability platform providing log management, infrastructure monitoring, distributed tracing, and synthetic monitoring with transparent, usage-based pricing.

Independently observed

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.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $2.80/moUsage-basedFree tier14-day trial

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

$2.8/host/month
monthly

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

$3.6/host/month
monthly

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

$5.76/host/month
monthly

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.

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
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • Web
Deployment
  • 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.

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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.

Balanced composite 62 / 100
low · 41%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Reliability5030.001500.0
Pricing Transparency10012.001200.0
Capabilities9212.001099.6
Price Level808.00640.0
Integrations2616.00415.5
Security Posture022.000.0-

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

AttributeValueEvidence
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

AttributeValueEvidence
Count7mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Starting gbp2.8mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%