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Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Watchdogs

AWS, AWS Lamdba, AWS CloudWatch, AWS SDK, Open Source

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Watchdogs launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Komiser▲386

    Open-source cloud environment inspector

    2023 · its alternatives →

  2. 2OE

    Hello folks, We are launching OpenObserve. An open source Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative written in rust and vue that is super easy to get started with and has 140x lower storage cost compared to elasticsearch. It offers logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, functions (run aws lambda like functions during ingestion and query to enrich, redact, transform, normalize and whatever else you want to do. Think redacting email IDs from logs, adding geolocation based on IP address, etc). You can do all of this from the UI, no messing up with configuration files. OpenObserve…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The GraphQL API for AWS

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    AI-native, open-source Datadog alternative

    Mar 2026 · openobserve.ai · its alternatives →

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    Find AWS Lambda failures fast, right on your Mac

    Jun 2026 · logstitch.app · its alternatives →

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    Daily recap notification of the running AWS instances

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Monitor AWS Lambda and Heroku apps for known vulnerabilities

    2017 · its alternatives →

  9. 9LO

    Hey HN, we’re Robert, Din and Temirlan from Laminar (https://www.lmnr.ai), an open-source observability and analytics platform for complex LLM apps. It’s designed to be fast, reliable, and scalable. The stack is RabbitMQ for message queues, Postgres for storage, Clickhouse for analytics, Qdrant for semantic search - all powered by Rust. How is Laminar different from the swarm of other “LLM observability” platforms? On the observability part, we’re focused on handling full execution traces, not just LLM calls. We built a Rust ingestor for OpenTelemetry (Otel) spans with GenAI…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Helios▲75

    Open-source monitoring tool for AWS serverless applications

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Cloud logging + visualization tools for robotic development

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Instantly reduce your AWS Bill with metricly.cloud

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Simple, powerful, secure API performance monitoring

    2021 · its alternatives →

  15. 15YD

    If you've built any web-based app in the last 15 years, you probably used something like Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, etc. to monitor and trace your app, right? Why should it be different when the app you're building happens to be using LLMs? So today we're open-sourcing OpenLLMetry-JS. It's an open protocol and SDK, based on OpenTelemetry, that provides traces and metrics for LLM JS/TS applications and can be connected to any of the 15+ tools that already support OpenTelemetry. Here's the repo: https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry-js A few months ago we launched…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Monitor your AWS IAM users

    2025 · cloudwatcher.io · its alternatives →

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    Kubernetes cluster visualization and metrics

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Baselime▲120

    Observability & error tracking for cloud applications

    2024 · baselime.io · its alternatives →

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    A lightweight open-source service monitor.

    Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Reliable uptime and performance monitoring for your services

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    A streamlined AWS Lambda Visualization UI

    2023 · its alternatives →

  23. 23CI
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    A DynamoDB visualization tool

    2024 · watch-tower.co · its alternatives →

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