Best Observability Apm · SOC2
Best SOC 2-compliant Observability Apm (2026)
7 observability apm that hold a SOC 2 attestation, ranked by entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Cheapest: Grafana Cloud at $0/mo.
- Qualifying: Grafana Cloud, New Relic, Sentry, SigNoz, Dynatrace, Datadog APM, Elastic Observability.
- Data current through: 2026-09-05.
Comparison
| # | Observability Apm | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grafana Cloud | $0/mo | Yes | — | Yes | Prometheus-native and OpenTelemetry shops wanting hosted Grafana | grafana.com |
| 2 | New Relic | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Teams wanting a generous free tier before committing | newrelic.com |
| 3 | Sentry | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Developer-led teams wanting free error monitoring before paying for APM | sentry.io |
| 4 | SigNoz | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | OpenTelemetry-first teams wanting a fully OTel-native managed backend | signoz.io |
| 5 | Dynatrace | $1.4/mo | No | Yes | Yes | Large enterprises needing zero-config auto-instrumentation at scale | dynatrace.com |
| 6 | Datadog APM | $35/mo | No | Yes | Yes | Enterprises running multi-cloud, multi-language stacks | datadoghq.com |
| 7 | Elastic Observability | — | No | Yes | Yes | Organizations already using Elasticsearch or Elastic SIEM wanting unified observability | elastic.co |