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What is Sysdig Monitor
Sysdig Monitor is a monitoring and observability product focused on containers and Kubernetes environments. It collects infrastructure, container, and application telemetry (metrics and events) to help DevOps and SRE teams troubleshoot performance issues and understand resource behavior across clusters and cloud infrastructure. The product emphasizes Kubernetes-aware views and integrations with common cloud and container ecosystems, and it is commonly deployed alongside Sysdig’s security capabilities in the same platform.
Kubernetes-aware monitoring views
Sysdig Monitor provides cluster-, node-, namespace-, and workload-level visibility designed for Kubernetes operations. It supports troubleshooting workflows that map telemetry to Kubernetes objects and changes. This helps teams correlate performance symptoms with deployments, scaling events, and resource constraints. It fits organizations where Kubernetes is the primary runtime for services.
Deep container runtime telemetry
The product originates from Sysdig’s container instrumentation approach and is designed to observe container and host behavior at a granular level. This can be useful for diagnosing noisy-neighbor issues, CPU/memory pressure, and container-level resource consumption. It supports investigation of issues that are difficult to see with host-only monitoring. Teams operating multi-tenant clusters can use this to attribute usage and impact per workload.
Integrations for cloud ecosystems
Sysdig Monitor integrates with common cloud services and container tooling to ingest and correlate telemetry. This supports monitoring across hybrid environments where workloads run in multiple clusters or cloud accounts. It reduces the need to build custom collectors for each service. The integration approach aligns with how teams typically standardize monitoring across DevOps toolchains.
Kubernetes-first learning curve
Teams without strong Kubernetes operational maturity may find the product’s concepts and dashboards less intuitive than general-purpose infrastructure monitoring. Effective use often requires understanding Kubernetes objects, scheduling, and resource requests/limits. Initial onboarding can take time to align dashboards and alerts to each cluster’s conventions. Smaller teams may prefer simpler, less Kubernetes-centric setups.
Cost and data volume sensitivity
Container environments can generate high-cardinality telemetry, which can increase ingestion and retention costs depending on configuration. Organizations may need to tune collection, labels, and retention to control spend. Without governance, dashboards and alerts can become noisy as clusters scale. This is a common operational consideration for observability platforms in this space.
APM depth varies by use case
While Sysdig Monitor covers infrastructure and Kubernetes monitoring well, some organizations may require deeper application performance monitoring features (for example, advanced distributed tracing and code-level diagnostics) depending on their stack. Teams may need additional instrumentation and configuration to reach the desired level of application insight. For complex microservices, this can add operational overhead. Fit depends on whether the primary need is Kubernetes/infrastructure visibility versus full-stack APM.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Host-based licensing (agent) OR Time-series-based (custom metrics / managed Prometheus) Free tier/trial: Free trial available (see details below); no permanently free Monitor plan found on pricing page. Details:
- Host-based licensing (agent): Agent license includes a free custom time-series bucket (2,000 TS per host). Public Sysdig materials cite an example starting price of $30 per host per month (billed annually) as a baseline used in Sysdig examples and press materials, but the public pricing page directs customers to Request a Quote for final pricing.
- Time-series-based licensing (metrics / custom metrics): Custom time-series entitlement can be increased by purchasing Time Series Packs. A Time Series Pack = 1,000 time series (charged monthly). Sysdig publishes example on-demand / overage pricing in official materials (examples: $5 per 1,000 time series in Sysdig blog posts; the docs contain illustrative examples that reference other on-demand values as examples and note that contractual on-demand rates apply).
- Billing mechanics (from official docs): Overages are calculated using hourly metering and billed using the 95th percentile of hourly overage; pre-purchased time-series packs reduce overage exposure; agent subscriptions include metric entitlements. Example costs (from official Sysdig pages / examples):
- Agent license (example): $30 per host/month (billed annually) — used as an example baseline in Sysdig press/blog material.
- Time series pack: 1,000 time series per pack, charged monthly. Official example overage price references include $5 per 1,000 time series (blog example) and doc examples that use $7.50 per 1,000 TS as an illustrative on-demand price; actual contract rates are provided via quote. Notes:
- Sysdig’s public pricing pages (sysdig.com/pricing & sysdig.com/pricing-monitor) state “Prices tailored to your needs” and require contacting sales for final quotes. Many of the unit figures above are published by Sysdig in product blog posts and documentation as examples or press statements rather than on a public rate-card; final customer pricing is provided by sales.
Seller details
Sysdig, Inc.
San Francisco, CA, USA
2013
Private
https://sysdig.com/
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