Mackerel Reviews

Name: Mackerel
Brand: Mackerel

What is Mackerel?

Mackerel is an elegantly simple and powerful service that employs the concept of "roles" to optimize management and monitoring of hosts. By running mackerel-agent on your hosts, you can manage any number of hosts using both Mackerel's web GUI and API to visualize the statuses of your hosts and applications with a high degree of detail and customization.

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Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

January 2026

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Mackerel mindshare

As of January 2026, the mindshare of Mackerel in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category stands at 0.3%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.