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Frost Radar™: Cloud-Native Application Monitoring Platforms, 2025

Publisher Frost & Sullivan
Published Jul 31, 2025
SKU # MC20270215

Description

The widespread adoption of containers and Kubernetes has made cloud-native applications the cornerstone of many business operations. While they enable rapid application development and delivery, their nature to scale up and disappear in seconds is beyond the static, monolithic applications that traditional monitoring tools were built for. This creates significant visibility gaps and blind spots for organizations.

Cloud-native application monitoring platforms provide organizations with in-depth visibility of applications built and deployed in cloud-native environments and examine the performance across layers of the cloud-native stacks by collecting, processing, and analyzing telemetry data, such as metrics, logs, traces, and alerts, to ensure application performance, reliability, and security.

The cloud-native application monitoring platform market is growing, but the technology rarely stands on its own; rather, it is considered as part of a broader observability platform that provides in-depth visibility from infrastructure to network layers to application performance to user experience. This is because the rapid innovation in this space has expanded the scope of monitoring and resulted in “observability” becoming the preferred term to describe the task of monitoring across a broader, multicloud, hybrid environment.

Frost & Sullivan in this Frost Radar analysis benchmarks nine cloud-native application monitoring platform providers across 10 Growth and Innovation criteria to reveal their position on the Frost Radar™. The publication presents competitive profiles of each company on the Frost Radar™, considering their strengths and the opportunities that best fit those strengths.

Table of Contents

    • Strategic Imperative
    • Growth Environment
    • Frost Radar Competitive Environment
    • Chronosphere
    • Datadog
    • Dynatrace
    • Elastic
    • Grafana Labs
    • Honeycomb
    • ManageEngine
    • New Relic
    • SolarWinds
    • Best Practices
    • Growth Opportunities
    • Frost Radar : Benchmarking Future Growth Potential 2 Major Indices, 10 Analytical Ingredients, 1 Platform
    • Significance of Being on the Frost Radar
    • Frost Radar Empowers the CEO’s Growth Team
    • Frost Radar Empowers Investors
    • Frost Radar Empowers Customers
    • Frost Radar Empowers the Board of Directors
    • Next Steps

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