Top 16 IT Monitoring software startups

Updated: Jul 05, 2026
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These startups develop IT Monitoring software for tracking system performance, detecting security threats and ensuring network uptime.
1
Splunk
Country: USA | Funding: $2.4B
Splunk is a software company that provides operational intelligence software that monitors, reports, and analyzes real-time machine data.
2
Grafana Labs
Country: USA | Funding: $1.1B
Grafana Labs is behind leading open source projects Grafana and Loki, and the creator of the first open & composable observability platform.
3
Datadog
Country: USA | Funding: $1B
Datadog offers monitoring and analytics for cloud-based workflows.
4
Chronosphere
Country: USA | Funding: $369.5M
Chronosphere develops next generation monitoring platform, powered by M3, for today’s most demanding environments.
5
AppDynamics
Country: USA | Funding: $364.5M
AppDynamics is an application performance management and IT operations analytics software. Get real-time insights and transform your app performance with our Application Performance Management to drive business outcomes. Acquired by Cisco
6
Coralogix
Country: USA | Funding: $350.8M
Coralogix is a SaaS platform that uses machine learning algorithms to facilitate delivery and maintenance processes for software providers.
7
Sumo Logic
Country: USA | Funding: $340M
Sumo Logic develops a cloud-based SIEM system and security analytics based on agent-based AI for automation, threat detection, and investigation. Its Dojo AI platform leverages agent-based AI for security operations. Agents work with human analysts to detect, investigate, and respond to threats in real time. For example, the Mobot agent allows you to communicate with your data in plain language, the dashboard agent automatically explains what triggered the analysis system, and the SOC analytics agent applies complex logic to triage alerts and assess severity. The MCP server makes Dojo AI the center of the entire ecosystem, connecting Sumo Logic agents with your specialized agents, in-house models, and third-party systems and tools.
8
New Relic
Country: USA | Funding: $214.5M
New Relic is a digital intelligence company that delivers full-stack visibility and analytics to enterprises.
9
SpiceWorks
Country: USA | Funding: $111M
Spiceworks is the marketplace that connects the IT industry to help tech buyers and sellers get their jobs done, every day.
10
Kentik
Country: USA | Funding: $101.7M
Kentik is a network intelligence platform that provides visibility, performance and security services to digital enterprises.
11
Graylog
Country: USA | Funding: $71.4M
Graylog is a log management software platform for collecting, indexing, and analyzing log messages in one place.
12
OpsRamp
Country: USA | Funding: $57.5M
The OpsRamp IT operations platform discovers, monitors, manages and automates hybrid IT infrastructure.
13
Loggly
Country: USA | Funding: $47.4M
Loggly parses your log files, shows you the code in GitHub which caused the log errors. Acquired by SolarWinds
14
Zabbix
Country: Latvia
Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.
15
Nagios
Country: USA
Nagios Enterprises offers monitoring and alerting solutions for servers, switches, applications, and services.
16
InsightCat
Country: Israel | Funding: $1M
InsightCat is a SaaS-based full-stack monitoring system, suited for both cloud and on-premise environments. The system can analyze bodies of big data in real-time, identify anomalies using machine learning, predict downtimes and provide timely notifications on events.
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Fernando Lopez
Editor: Fernando Lopez
Fernando Lopez is a senior editor for SaaStartups. He joined the company after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to his work as a reporter, Fernando worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software. Fernando graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (Computer Science). He is more-than-averagely interested in photography and can often be found with a camera slung over his shoulder. He wrote a book about pitching startups to investors. You can contact Fernando at fernandolopez(at)saastartups(dot)com