⚡ Application Monitoring in South Africa

Web application monitoring tools allow developers and businesses to track the performance, availability, and health of websites and applications by collecting data from real user monitoring (RUM), server-side tracing, log analysis, and synthetic testing.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our statistics, application monitoring tools are used on 3% of websites from South Africa.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top application monitoring tools in South Africa in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Sentry with an impressive share of 43.3%, followed by New Relic with 19.1% and Akamai mPulse with 16.9%.

Sentry 43.3%
New Relic 19.1%
Akamai mPulse 16.9%
Azure Monitor 5.8%
Dynatrace 4.9%
AWS X-Ray 3.2%
Web Vitals 3.2%
Site24x7 2.8%
Pingdom 2.1%
AppDynamics 1.7%
Oracle Dynamic Monitoring Service 0.9%
AEM RUM 0.9%
Datadog 0.9%
Retrace 0.8%
Bugsnag 0.4%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top tools that are more popular in South Africa than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

4. Azure Monitor ^(-1)
5. Dynatrace ^(-2)
6. AWS X-Ray ^(-3)
8. Site24x7 ^(-17)
10. AppDynamics ^(-3)
11. Oracle Dynamic Monitoring Service ^(-11)
16. UptimeRobot ^(-5)
18. ITM Radar ^(-11)
20. CloudWatch ^(-7)
23. Sematext ^(-15)

✨ Best Application Monitoring Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 23 application monitoring tools used on sites from South Africa, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Sentry San Francisco, California, United States A developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring platform that helps developers diagnose, fix, and optimize the performance of their code. Free$29+/month	43.3%
2	New Relic San Francisco, California, United States An observability platform that monitors applications, infrastructure, and digital services to detect performance issues and analyze system behavior across complex software environments. Free tier$$$	19.1%
3	Akamai mPulse Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A real user monitoring solution that enables companies to understand their website experience from the users' perspective. $$$	16.9%
4	Azure Monitor Redmond, Washington, United States A solution that collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry from various resources, including Windows Servers and VMs. Free tier$$$	5.8%
5	Dynatrace Waltham, Massachusetts, United States A software observability platform that uses artificial intelligence and automation to monitor applications, infrastructure, and digital user experience across cloud and on-premises environments. $0.08+/hour	4.9%
6	AWS X-Ray Seattle, Washington, United States An application performance management service for monitoring and tracing the components and services of AWS applications. Free tier$$$	3.2%
7	Web Vitals Mountain View, California, United States A tiny JavaScript library for measuring the Web Vitals metrics on real users. FreeOpen source	3.2%
8	Site24x7 Chennai, India A web infrastructure monitoring service that monitors the uptime and performance of websites, online applications and servers. $9+/month	2.8%
9	Pingdom Austin, Texas, United States A SaaS website uptime and performance monitoring solution that tracks the availability and user experience of websites and web applications. $15+/month	2.1%
10	AppDynamics San Jose, California, United States A real-time application performance management and monitoring solution, currently owned by Cisco.	1.7%
11	Oracle Dynamic Monitoring Service Austin, Texas, United States A library that enables application and system developers to use a variety of DMS sensors to measure and export customized performance metrics for specific software components.	0.9%
12	AEM RUM San Jose, California, United States A real-time user monitoring service that captures Core Web Vitals data for websites built on Adobe Experience Manager.	0.9%
13	Datadog New York, United States A SaaS monitoring and security platform for infrastructure and applications. Free$18+/host/month	0.9%
14	Retrace Huntington Beach, California, United States A cloud-based software platform that can monitor server and application health, error and log activity, and web application performance. $80+/month	0.8%
15	Bugsnag Somerville, Massachusetts, United States An error monitoring platform for mobile, server, and browser applications. Free$23+/month	0.4%
16	UptimeRobot Sliema, Malta A cloud-based monitoring service that can monitor website uptime, SSL, domain expiration, cron jobs, and ports. Free$8+/month	0.2%
17	Rollbar San Francisco, California, United States A cloud-based real-time error monitoring and logging service that helps developers detect, analyze, and resolve software errors in web, mobile, and backend applications. Free$19+/month	0.2%
18	ITM Radar Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States A community-driven cloud performance monitoring platform that measures the global performance and availability of the world's largest public infrastructures.	0.2%
19	Raygun Wellington, New Zealand An application performance monitoring platform with AI capabilities. $60+/month	0.2%
20	CloudWatch Seattle, Washington, United States A service that monitors applications, responds to performance changes, optimizes resource use, and provides insights into operational health.	0.2%
21	TrackJS Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States A frontend-only error monitoring platform. $49+/month	0.2%
22	SpeedCurve Auckland, New Zealand A website performance monitoring software with synthetic monitoring, RUM, Lighthouse, Core Web Vitals, and user and element timing tracking. $1+/month	0.2%
23	Sematext New York, United States A full-stack observability solution with log management, synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring. $5+/month	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Application Monitoring in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 17,795 websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.