Antonija Bilić Arar

Hi Vivek, what's your stack? If huge monitoring bills are your concern and if you’re using a number of JVM languages, or mostly Scala / Akka, and would like “one tool to monitor them all”, Kamon might be the friendliest choice to go for.

Kamon APM’s major benefit is it comes with a built-in dashboard for the most important metrics to monitor, taking the pain of figuring out what to monitor and building your own dashboards for weeks out of the monitoring.

https://kamon.io/apm/

Actually affordable compared to Instana, Datadog and the likes. Limited tech supported though, will work for you only if you need to monitor anything on the JVM. Scout is good for Python, Ruby etc.