What moved this quarter

Application Performance Monitoring Software movement in Q2 2026 is concentrated in buyer-visible packaging, product, trust and positioning changes, with public pages showing which vendors are trying to look easier to evaluate now.

• Packaging changed — Applications Manager By Manageengine moved Introduced public pricing: PSA only $19/tech/mo, PSA + RMM $163/tech/mo; Appsignal moved Introduced $0 starting price tier alongside existing 30-day full-featured. That makes public pricing and packaging a buyer-visible Application Performance Monitoring Software signal, not internal roadmap noise, because named products, prices, counts, API integrations, AI workflows and compliance proof changed on public pages.
• AI workflow push — Applications Manager By Manageengine moved Launched MSP Intelligence AI: ticket routing, summaries, generative; Better Stack moved Added AI SRE product with agentic root cause analysis and AI incident. That makes product and AI workflow a buyer-visible Application Performance Monitoring Software signal, not internal roadmap noise, because named products, prices, counts, API integrations, AI workflows and compliance proof changed on public pages.
• Trust became louder — Applications Manager By Manageengine moved Introduced public pricing: PSA only $19/tech/mo, PSA + RMM $163/tech/mo; Better Stack moved Updated pricing comparison: Better Stack $879/mo → $687/mo, Datadog. That makes security and compliance proof a buyer-visible Application Performance Monitoring Software signal, not internal roadmap noise, because named products, prices, counts, API integrations, AI workflows and compliance proof changed on public pages.

Market signals on the board

Only lanes with tracked evidence for Q2 2026 are emphasized. No filler lanes just to make the page look busy.

• Product and capability — Public-web product and capability signals found in the Application Performance Monitoring Software category for Q2 2026.
• Pricing and packaging — Public-web pricing and packaging signals found in the Application Performance Monitoring Software category for Q2 2026.
• Integrations and APIs — Public-web integrations and apis signals found in the Application Performance Monitoring Software category for Q2 2026.
• Messaging and positioning — Public-web messaging and positioning signals found in the Application Performance Monitoring Software category for Q2 2026.
• Security, compliance and access — Public-web security, compliance and access signals found in the Application Performance Monitoring Software category for Q2 2026.

Competitor changes for Q2 2026

Changed companies get evidence-backed cards. Quiet companies stay visible so the category file does not accidentally become a highlights reel.

• Appdynamics — appdynamics.com
  • Product and capability: AppDynamics rebranded to Splunk AppDynamics and merged into the Splunk Observability portfolio alongside Splunk Platform, Observability Cloud, and ITSI.
  • Product and capability: Appdynamics Page now available in six new languages: German, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
• Applications Manager By Manageengine — manageengine.com
  • Pricing and packaging: Introduced public pricing: PSA only $19/tech/mo, PSA + RMM $163/tech/mo, and PSA + RMM + Security starting at $448.
  • Product and capability: Applications Manager By Manageengine added visual playbook builder for SOAR with 50+ default playbooks.
  • Product and capability: Applications Manager By Manageengine Patch Manager Plus third-party app coverage expanded from 850+ to 1100+ applications.
• Appsignal — appsignal.com
  • Pricing and packaging: Introduced $0 starting price tier alongside existing 30-day full-featured trial.
  • Product and capability: Appsignal added Deploy Tracking.
  • Product and capability: Appsignal replaced Check-ins feature with Process Monitoring.
• Atatus — atatus.com
  • Integrations and APIs: Atatus added MCP Server integrations, clarifying ecosystem fit for buyers evaluating workflow coverage.
  • Product and capability: Atatus added Network Monitoring, Network Path Monitoring, and Network Device Monitoring to infrastructure observability.
  • Product and capability: Added on-premises, hybrid, and BYOC deployment options alongside existing SaaS offering.
• Better Stack — betterstack.com
  • Pricing and packaging: Added pricing comparison: Better Stack $879/mo → $687/mo, Datadog ~$28,000/mo → ~$55,574/mo, ingest multiplier 33x → 80x, and max savings 97% → 98%.
  • Pricing and packaging: Pricing for additional status page subscribers changed from $40 per page per month to $40 per month.
  • Product and capability: Better Stack removed Data warehouse product from the platform.
• Bugsnag — bugsnag.com
  • Messaging and positioning: Customer logo bar updated: removed Barnes & Noble, Wendy's, and Mattel; added Johns Hopkins, Qualcomm, US Army, and USPS.
• Catchpoint — catchpoint.com
  • Product and capability: Catchpoint added German and French localized pages via new /de/ and /fr/ paths.
  • Product and capability: Added Edwin AI for predictive alerting, anomaly detection, and intelligent noise reduction.
  • Product and capability: Catchpoint added cloud and multi-cloud monitoring for containers, AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI.
• Chronosphere — chronosphere.io
  • Product and capability: Chronosphere added Notebooks feature for capturing and sharing insights.
  • Product and capability: Completed Palo Alto Networks acquisition and updated combined branding.
  • Messaging and positioning: Acquisition announcement updated from pending deal to completed acquisition.
• Coralogix — coralogix.com
  • Product and capability: Coralogix introduced Model Context Protocol server, programmable agentic CLI, and Code agent observability.
  • Product and capability: Edge security extensions and integrations reduced from 39+ to 14+ and OOTB detections and dashboards from 244+ to 90+.
  • Product and capability: Coralogix added Data engine, Explore, and Span analytics platform modules.
• Datadog — datadoghq.com
  • Product and capability: Datadog added Data category in navigation featuring Quality Monitoring and Jobs Monitoring, replacing Data Jobs Monitoring.
  • Product and capability: Datadog New UK1 site option added to the Datadog region selector.
  • Product and capability: Datadog added Governance Console to Platform Capabilities.
• Dynatrace — dynatrace.com
  • Messaging and positioning: Platform value proposition sections rewritten to emphasize Dynatrace Intelligence, deterministic insights, and agentic operations.
  • Messaging and positioning: Video section 'Confidence Where It Counts' replaced with IDC analyst quote and Perform 2026 promotion.
• Embrace — embrace.io
  • Product and capability: Embrace added synthetic monitoring under Web RUM.
  • Product and capability: Embrace added natural language filtering to the Embrace dashboard.
  • Product and capability: Embrace announced it entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Palo Alto Networks.
• Grafana — grafana.com
  • Integrations and APIs: Grafana added MCP integrations, clarifying ecosystem fit for buyers evaluating workflow coverage.
  • Pricing and packaging: Added Agent Observability product for AI agents and LLM applications with Pro pricing at $1.50 per 1k generations and $2 per 1M tokens for Evals & Guards.
  • Product and capability: Grafana added Database Observability to Grafana Cloud product offerings.
• Graylog — graylog.org
  • Product and capability: Introduced MCP conversational AI capability for analyst workflows.
  • Product and capability: Graylog added capability to route low-value data to a built-in data lake.
  • Messaging and positioning: Platform positioning shifted from 'One Platform, Zero Surprise Bills' to 'Built-In Pipeline Management Meets Practical AI' for lean teams.
• Groundcover — groundcover.com
  • Security, compliance and access: Groundcover BYOC comparison table added High availability row, daily backups with snapshots, corrected Compliance and Fidelity mappings, and updated Uptime SLA and Latest Features descriptions.
  • Product and capability: Groundcover added Synthetic Performance Monitoring.
  • Product and capability: Added sitewide banner announcing $100 million Series C funding round.
• Honeycomb — honeycomb.io
  • Product and capability: Introduced AI agent observability capabilities including Agent Timeline, MCP Skills, and Observability with AI Agents solution.
  • Messaging and positioning: Homepage hero and value proposition rewritten to emphasize AI agent workflows, LLM debugging, and MCP integrations.
  • Messaging and positioning: Removed 'Built for answers, not tradeoffs' platform overview with architecture diagrams and six capability narratives.
• Instabug — instabug.com
  • Product and capability: Added Signals product line with Issues, Business & Engagement, and Sentiment modules, plus Companion and Autopilot AI capabilities.
  • Product and capability: Launched Autopilot for autonomous resolution and release via automated pull requests, guarded releases, and MCP/CLI/API access.
  • Product and capability: Instabug replaced Intelligence product page with Companion, adding inbox prioritization, duplicate detection, summaries, repro steps, and root-cause analysis.
• Instana By Ibm — ibm.com
  • Pricing and packaging: Added IBM Cloud Free Tier: free account with 40+ always-free products and USD 200 credit.
  • Pricing and packaging: Added Pricing section with Pay Per Use, SaaS, and Self-hosted plans.
  • Product and capability: Instana By Ibm added AI agent and LLM observability with real-time GenAI workflow mapping.
• Logicmonitor — logicmonitor.com
  • Product and capability: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure monitoring launched, replacing 'Coming in October' with active product page link.
  • Product and capability: Logicmonitor removed Spanish language option from site selectors, leaving English, German, and French.
• Logz — logz.io
  • Product and capability: Added Cloud SIEM offering to platform use cases.
  • Product and capability: Added OrionIQ agentic observability product.
  • Messaging and positioning: Homepage hero illustration and integration partner logos removed.
• Lumigo — lumigo.io
  • Product and capability: Added Darkplane product suite (Overview and AI Coding Insights).
  • Product and capability: Lumigo added Agent0 Chat and Automations.
  • Product and capability: Lumigo added Signalstore product overview.
• Mezmo — mezmo.com
  • Integrations and APIs: Mezmo added MCP integrations, clarifying ecosystem fit for buyers evaluating workflow coverage.
  • Product and capability: Homepage redesigned: messaging pivoted from Active Telemetry to AURA open-source AI SRE; added hero, banner, and demo terminal.
  • Messaging and positioning: Homepage hero and value proposition rewritten to highlight SRE agent production, deployment control, operational context, and governed workflows.
• Monitor By Microsoft — azure.microsoft.com
  • Pricing and packaging: Monitor By Microsoft removed visible homepage pricing or plan details, reducing self-serve pricing clarity for buyers comparing packages.
  • Product and capability: Monitor By Microsoft Region list added 'India South Central'.
  • Product and capability: Removed Azure AI Search, Azure Content Understanding, and Azure Synapse Analytics.
• New Relic — newrelic.com
  • Integrations and APIs: New Relic added MCP Server integrations, clarifying ecosystem fit for buyers evaluating workflow coverage.
  • Product and capability: Added SRE Agent, AI Observability, Federated Logs, Workflow Automation, Agentic Platform, and eBPF capabilities.
  • Product and capability: Added New Relic Autopilot and New Relic Ground Truth to the Platform Featured navigation menu.
• Observability By Elastic — elastic.co
  • Product and capability: Observability By Elastic introduced Knowledge Indicators and Live System Model for automated entity and dependency extraction from telemetry.
  • Product and capability: Observability By Elastic added Elastic Agent Builder for context-aware agents.
  • Product and capability: Added native MCP server integration for external AI interfaces such as Claude and CLI.
• Observability By Google — cloud.google.com
  • Integrations and APIs: Observability By Google expanded integration coverage around API, clarifying ecosystem fit for buyers evaluating workflow coverage.
  • Pricing and packaging: Cloud Monitoring alerting policies changed to $0.35 per metric reference monthly from $1.50 per condition; query evaluation to $0.50 per million points, effective September 1,.
  • Product and capability: Generative AI solution list replaced Vertex AI and Vertex AI Studio with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Agent Studio, removing Vertex AI Agent Builder.
• Observability By Solarwinds — solarwinds.com
  • Pricing and packaging: Added explicit pricing: Dameware ($370–$972), Engineer's Toolset ($1,997), Kiwi ($199–$1,095), Network Topology Mapper ($1,977), and Serv-U ($666–$4,019).
  • Pricing and packaging: SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted starting price increased from $7.42 to $8 per node per month.
  • Product and capability: Added AI/ML-powered Root Cause Assist feature with contextual information and automated analysis.
• Observability Cloud By Splunk — splunk.com
  • Pricing and packaging: Replaced 14-day free trial with free edition for up to 15 hosts.
  • Integrations and APIs: Observability Cloud By Splunk added MCP Server integrations, clarifying ecosystem fit for buyers evaluating workflow coverage.
  • Product and capability: Observability Cloud By Splunk DSDL support added to custom ML model summary.
• Observeinc — observeinc.com
  • Product and capability: Acquisition banner replaced with 'Observe by Snowflake' webinar banner and logo updated to Observe by Snowflake branding.
  • Messaging and positioning: Hero subtitle rewritten from 'Introducing AI SRE for 10x faster troubleshooting' to 'Troubleshoot 10x faster at 60% lower cost'.
• Rollbar — rollbar.com
  • Product and capability: Added MCP server for AI agents to access production errors, stack traces, deploys, and session replays.
  • Product and capability: Added Root Cause Analysis feature for error identification across front-end and back-end projects.
• Scout Monitoring — scoutapm.com
  • Integrations and APIs: Scout Monitoring added MCP integrations, clarifying ecosystem fit for buyers evaluating workflow coverage.
  • Pricing and packaging: Scout Monitoring reframed advanced automation as add-ons/automations, making premium workflow capabilities look more explicitly packaged.
  • Security, compliance and access: Scout Monitoring rewrote SQL Insights headline to 'SQL visibility without compromising security', removed 16k query limit mention, and tightened description.
• Sematext — sematext.com
  • Integrations and APIs: Sematext added MCP Server integrations, clarifying ecosystem fit for buyers evaluating workflow coverage.
  • Product and capability: Sematext added Pipelines and log cost-reduction features under Log Monitoring.
  • Product and capability: Sematext added SLO monitoring.
• Sentry — sentry.io
  • Pricing and packaging: Sentry New-user offer added: 5,000 free Session Replays monthly for first three months.
  • Product and capability: Introduced full monitoring suite: errors, logs, replay, metrics, tracing, profiling, size analysis, cron/uptime monitoring, and Seer AI debugging.
  • Product and capability: Added Agent Tracing to Platform navigation and feature table, replacing unlinked Agent monitoring.
• Signoz — signoz.io
  • Integrations and APIs: Signoz added SSO and MCP integrations, clarifying ecosystem fit for buyers evaluating workflow coverage.
  • Pricing and packaging: Signoz Redesigned homepage hero with 'Observability on Your Terms' tagline, demo video, and testimonials.
  • Product and capability: Signoz added 'Errors' as standalone telemetry category alongside metrics, traces, and logs.
• Site24x7 — site24x7.com
  • Pricing and packaging: Replaced single plan mention with four-tier structure: Free, Web Uptime ($9/mo), Web Perf ($36/mo), and Enterprise Plus Web ($899/mo).
  • Integrations and APIs: Site24x7 added API and MCP integrations, clarifying ecosystem fit for buyers evaluating workflow coverage.
  • Product and capability: Site24x7 added native OpenTelemetry support, eBPF auto-instrumentation without code changes, Cluster Explorer, and ephemeral-workload resource labeling.
• Sumo Logic — sumologic.com
  • Integrations and APIs: Sumo Logic added MCP Server integrations, clarifying ecosystem fit for buyers evaluating workflow coverage.
  • Product and capability: Sumo Logic added LLM Observability as a new observability solution.
  • Product and capability: Sumo Logic Mobot identifies root causes of infrastructure issues like slow applications or high error rates.

No material public-web move found

These competitors were included in the quarterly sweep, but no material public-web moves showed up during the window.

• Aws — aws.amazon.com
• Raygun — raygun.com

Prior quarter files

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