Data tooling landscape

A neutral map of the tools used to build data platforms, organised by the plane they serve: from orchestration and storage to governance, security and AI.

172 tools · 10 planes · 37 categories. Listings are editorial and unpaid; any sponsored placement will always be labelled.

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Control Plane

Data Plane

Integration & ETL Plane

Data Quality Plane

Observability Plane

Metadata Plane

Data Governance Plane

Security Plane

Visualisation & BI Plane

AI & ML Plane

5 results

Azure Monitor

Observability Plane · Pipeline & Infrastructure Monitoring

Azure service for collecting and analysing telemetry from cloud and on-premises environments.

  • Cloud service

Datadog

Observability Plane · Pipeline & Infrastructure Monitoring

Monitoring and observability SaaS for infrastructure, applications, logs and data pipelines.

  • Commercial

Grafana

Observability Plane · Pipeline & Infrastructure Monitoring

Open-source dashboards for metrics, logs and traces, with a managed cloud offering.

  • Open core

OpenTelemetry

Observability Plane · Pipeline & Infrastructure Monitoring

Vendor-neutral standard and tooling for collecting traces, metrics and logs.

  • Open source

Prometheus

Observability Plane · Pipeline & Infrastructure Monitoring

Open-source monitoring system and time-series database, a CNCF project.

  • Open source

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The landscape is curated editorially for now; public submissions open later. Inclusion is never paid for, and any sponsored placement will be clearly labelled.