Compare the Top Free Root Cause Analysis Software as of November 2025

What is Free Root Cause Analysis Software?

Root cause analysis software is software designed to help identify and analyze the reasons underlying an event or problem. It can be used in many different contexts, including quality control, business process improvement, safety evaluations, and IT system management. Root cause analysis software typically uses structured techniques to identify potential causes of a problem, such as interviewing stakeholders and examining existing data and processes. It then helps users to systematically analyze each potential cause in order to determine which one is most likely the root cause. Finally, the software provides actionable recommendations for resolving the issue. Generally speaking, root cause analysis software is a valuable tool for identifying systematic issues that are causing operational difficulties and formulating plans for addressing them. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free Root Cause Analysis software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    SafetyCulture

    SafetyCulture

    SafetyCulture

    SafetyCulture is a workplace operations platform trusted by 85,000+ teams to work safely, meet higher standards, and improve every day. 1. Streamline operations by eliminating paper processes - with simple checklists your teams can complete on any device. 2. Get the job done with seamless task and issue management - whether a team member spots something that needs fixing during an inspection, or while on the go, it’s easy to create and assign tasks to hold the right people accountable. 3. Reduce downtime with total asset visibility - gain unique visibility via sensors and telematics data o 4. Onboard, train, and upskill teams seamlessly - deliver bite-sized training that fits into the flow of your team’s work. No matter the device or location. 5. Workplace communications fit for the frontline - close the communication gap with a message system frontline teams love to use.
    Starting Price: $19.00/month/user
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    SBS Quality Management Software

    SBS Quality Management Software

    Sunday Business Systems

    The SBS Quality Management Software Suite (QMS Suite) is a group of 5 software modules that work together for efficient Quality compliance. The QMS Suite can be deployed on your local server or accessed from our cloud server. Each module is designed for ease-of-use to reduce training overhead and improve overall compliance. Password controlled access and privileges ensure you may control access to critical features for each user. The SBS QMS Suite of modules: SBS Quality Database - CAPA / 8D with root cause analysis - Nonconformance management - Risk analysis (FMEA, SWOT, etc.) - Audit management - EHS module SBS Ground Control - Employee training management (LMS) - Document control SBS Asset Tracking Database - Calibrated equipment - Preventive maintenance SBS Inspection Database - Data collection / SPC - Control Plans SBS Vendor Management - Approved vendor list / AVL - Supplier qualification plans Great product for efficient and affordable QMS Compliance
    Starting Price: $4,268 one time fee
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    Boozang

    Boozang

    Boozang

    Build. Test. Automate. Empower your whole team to build and maintain automated tests, not just developers. Meet your testing demands fast. Get full test coverage in days, not months. Our natural-language tests are extremely stable to code changes. When tests break our AI will repair it in minutes. Go Agile/DevOps by setting up Continuous Testing. Push features in production the same day. Boozang supports the following test approaches: - Codeless Record/Replay interface - BDD / Cucumber - API testing - Model-based testing - HTML Canvas testing The following features makes your testing a breeze - In-browser console debugging - Screenshots to show where test fails - Integrate to any CI server - Test with unlimited parallel workers to speed up tests - Root-cause analysis reports - Trend reports to track failures and performance over time - Test management integration (Xray / Jira)
    Starting Price: $249 USD / month / user
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    Sematext Cloud

    Sematext Cloud

    Sematext Group

    Sematext Cloud is an innovative, unified platform with all-in-one solution for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real user monitoring, and synthetic monitoring to provide unified, real-time observability of your entire technology stack. It's used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, with the goal of driving collaboration between engineering and business teams, reducing the time of root-cause analysis, understanding user behaviour and tracking key business metrics. The main capabilities range from log monitoring to APM, server monitoring, database monitoring, network monitoring, uptime monitoring, website monitoring or container monitoring Find complete details on our website. Or better: start a free demo, no email address required.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    VirtualMetric

    VirtualMetric

    VirtualMetric

    VirtualMetric is a powerful telemetry pipeline solution designed to enhance data collection, processing, and security monitoring across enterprise environments. Its core offering, DataStream, automatically collects and transforms security logs from a wide range of systems such as Windows, Linux, MacOS, and Unix, enriching data for further analysis. By reducing data volume and filtering out non-meaningful logs, VirtualMetric helps businesses lower SIEM ingestion costs, increase operational efficiency, and improve threat detection accuracy. The platform’s scalable architecture, with features like zero data loss and long-term compliance storage, ensures that businesses can maintain high security standards while optimizing performance.
    Starting Price: Free
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    CySight

    CySight

    IdeaData

    CySight's Dropless Collection method provides absolute data retention, enabling the most data orientated decision making and cost-effective workflow for any organization, significantly enhancing network performance, network security and cyber intelligence to the highest level. With a Unique approach, CySight delivers comparative baselining, superior granularity, scalable collection, root cause analysis and QoS Analysis. All Designed to run independently or work together as a powerful single unit. CySight empowers communication and application visibility for networking, security, billing and compliance with high-end integrated network traffic analytics, granular forensics, cybersecurity intelligence, cloud usage, internet-of-things analytics, peering and billing to medium and large enterprise customers and service providers. Our objective at CySight is to reveal your data’s potential and eliminate all blind spots.
    Starting Price: $299/month
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    Arize AI

    Arize AI

    Arize AI

    Automatically discover issues, diagnose problems, and improve models with Arize’s machine learning observability platform. Machine learning systems address mission critical needs for businesses and their customers every day, yet often fail to perform in the real world. Arize is an end-to-end observability platform to accelerate detecting and resolving issues for your AI models at large. Seamlessly enable observability for any model, from any platform, in any environment. Lightweight SDKs to send training, validation, and production datasets. Link real-time or delayed ground truth to predictions. Gain foresight and confidence that your models will perform as expected once deployed. Proactively catch any performance degradation, data/prediction drift, and quality issues before they spiral. Reduce the time to resolution (MTTR) for even the most complex models with flexible, easy-to-use tools for root cause analysis.
    Starting Price: $50/month
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    StarTree

    StarTree

    StarTree

    StarTree, powered by Apache Pinot™, is a fully managed real-time analytics platform built for customer-facing applications that demand instant insights on the freshest data. Unlike traditional data warehouses or OLTP databases—optimized for back-office reporting or transactions—StarTree is engineered for real-time OLAP at true scale, meaning: - Data Volume: query performance sustained at petabyte scale - Ingest Rates: millions of events per second, continuously indexed for freshness - Concurrency: thousands to millions of simultaneous users served with sub-second latency With StarTree, businesses deliver always-fresh insights at interactive speed, enabling applications that personalize, monitor, and act in real time.
    Starting Price: Free
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    ScrumDesk

    ScrumDesk

    ScrumDesk

    The tool for senior management. Align the company with transparency and self-management. Focus teams on Objectives and Key Results (OKR) instead of tasks. Connect objectives to your initiatives and backlog items. The tool for the Product Owner. Multi-level hierarchy user stories map with visual cards. Business initiatives, themes, epics, features, user stories. Manage the project schedule with roadmaps. Release and sprint planning. Compact Scrum project management tool for the development team with the product backlog, sprint plannings, daily scrum, sprint review. Scrum teams track tasks on Kanban boards by drag and drop. Customize workflow. Impediments management. The tool for Scrum Master. Improve continuously. Facilitate online or onsite retrospectives. Team voting for the most important ideas. The best 14 retrospective techniques included. Analyze complex problems with root cause analysis. Causal loops diagram or mind maps. 5 why technique.
    Starting Price: $18 per month
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    Applitools

    Applitools

    Applitools

    Applitools provides an end-to-end UI testing and monitoring platform powered by Visual AI for Developers, Test Automation, Manual QA, DevOps, and Digital Transformation teams. Our Visual AI technology transforms how organizations approach quality by ensuring web and mobile applications appear and operate exactly as designed across any device, browser, OS, or native application. Applitools is fast, quick to integrate with any DevOps environment, easy to use by anyone on the team, and scalable to any size organization looking to increase speed and quality with every release - an outcome necessary to compete in today’s challenging business environment. Hundreds of companies from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 firms in software, banking, insurance, retail, and pharmaceuticals, use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to their customers. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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    DC-E DigitalClone for Engineering

    DC-E DigitalClone for Engineering

    Sentient Science Corporation

    DigitalClone® for Engineering is the world's only gearbox reliability prediction solution integrating multiple scales of analysis in a single software package. In addition to modeling and analysis capabilities at the gearbox and gear/bearing levels, DC-E is the only solution available that models fatigue life based on detailed, physics-based models of the material microstructure (US Patent 10474772B2). DC-E enables construction of a gearbox digital twin with high value across all stages of the lifecycle of the physical asset - from design and manufacturing optimization to component supplier selection to failure root cause analysis to condition-based maintenance and to prognostics. This computational environment drives down the time and cost to bring new designs to the market and to sustain them over time.
    Starting Price: Upon request
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    Opster

    Opster

    Opster

    Reduce your hardware costs while improving performance with Opster’s AutoOps platform by optimizing mapping, stabilizing operations and improving resource utilization. You need more than orchestration, management capabilities and ticket-based support. AutoOps covers everything you need in real-time, with hands-on support. AutoOps diagnoses issues across all aspects of Elasticsearch operations. Once diagnosed, the system not only provides precision root cause analysis, but also resolves the issue. The AutoOps platform can perform advanced optimizations such as: shard rebalancing, blocking heavy searches, optimizing templates and more. These optimizations will ensure that your cluster will operate at peak performance and maximum resiliency. By optimizing mapping, stabilizing operations and improving resource utilization, Opster’s AutoOps platform allows customers to significantly downsize the needed hardware for their deployment.
    Starting Price: $2.2 per GB per month
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    InsightFinder

    InsightFinder

    InsightFinder

    InsightFinder Unified Intelligence Engine (UIE) platform provides human-centered AI solutions for identifying incident root causes, and predicting and preventing production incidents. Powered by patented self-tuning unsupervised machine learning, InsightFinder continuously learns from metric time series, logs, traces, and triage threads from SREs and DevOps Engineers to bubble up root causes and predict incidents from the source. Companies of all sizes have embraced the platform and seen that business-impacting incidents can be predicted hours ahead with clearly pinpointed root causes. Survey a comprehensive overview of your IT Ops ecosystem, including patterns, trends, and team activities. Also view calculations that demonstrate overall downtime savings, cost of labor savings, and number of incidents resolved.
    Starting Price: $2.5 per core per month
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    ExtraView

    ExtraView

    ExtraView

    ExtraView is an enterprise software platform implementing business process management, global quality management systems for CAPA, adverse event reporting, food safety, bug and defect tracking, change management, customer support, helpdesk, field audit, and other workflow or issue management systems. Use out-of-the-box solutions or implement a custom requirement. Available as a service in the cloud or on your own servers. Simple to configure, yet provides a quality platform on which to implement fully validated systems such as incident management, CAPA, adverse event reporting, & root cause analysis, clinical trial data management and food safety. Implement bug-tracking, customer support, requirements management, change management and other issue-tracking systems. Many customers can take advantage of the full-featured, free, downloadable version! Learn how financial companies implement systems that regulate and control audit systems, provide corporate governance and risk management.
    Starting Price: $400 one-time payment
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    Epsagon

    Epsagon

    Epsagon

    Epsagon enables teams to instantly visualize, understand and optimize their microservice architectures. With our unique lightweight auto-instrumentation, gaps in data and manual work associated with other APM solutions are eliminated, providing significant reductions in issue detection, root cause analysis and resolution times. Increase development velocity and reduce application downtime with Epsagon.
    Starting Price: $89 per month
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    opConfig

    opConfig

    FirstWave

    opConfig can automate everything from config push to alerting on changes and enforcing compliance. Introduce operational delegation to your organization and allow the troubleshooting of your network devices without giving 'root' access. Implement your compliance policy with PCI-DSS, HIPPA, COBIT and more using prebuilt industry standard rule sets (eg Cisco-NSA) or customize your own. Collects and backs-up configuration information in all environments, all vendors hardware and software, cloud-based, on-premise and hybrid. opConfig gives you the ability to create robust command sets that can aid in root cause analysis of faults. Our software solutions scale horizontally and vertically. We have provided monitoring and management solutions for over 200k nodes. Compare configuration data with older versions or against other devices. Use compliance policies as a task sheet to ensure all devices are compliant.
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    Small Hours

    Small Hours

    Small Hours

    Small Hours is an AI-powered observability platform that helps root cause server exceptions, analyze the impact, and triage to the right person or team. Use Markdown or your existing runbook to guide our assistant in debugging issues. We support OpenTelemetry for seamless integration with any stack. Hook into existing alarms and identify critical issues. Connect your codebases and runbooks as context and instructions. Your code and data are secure and never stored. Intelligently triage issues and generate pull requests. Optimized for enterprise velocity and scale. 24/7 automated root cause analysis, minimize downtime, and maximize efficiency.
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    StackPilot

    StackPilot

    StackPilot

    StackPilot is an AI-powered oncall copilot that automates root cause analysis and bug fixes for software engineers. It integrates directly with observability tools like Datadog, Sentry, and PagerDuty to transform alerts into actionable fixes. The platform analyzes recent commits, logs, and stack traces to pinpoint faulty code, then generates pull requests with proposed solutions. Engineers only need to review and merge, significantly cutting resolution time from hours to an average of 15 minutes. StackPilot also captures investigative steps and converts them into reusable runbooks, improving incident response over time. With strong privacy measures—no code or logs stored—it ensures secure, real-time analysis for engineering teams.
    Starting Price: Free
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    CloudBeat

    CloudBeat

    CloudBeat

    Create, run and analyze tests without any hassle. Empowering dev, testing, product and DevOps teams to release a superior quality product in the shortest time possible. Utilize your tests in production. Monitor business transactions. DevOps & developer-friendly, cross-region, device, and browser. Monitor user experience & SLA, detailed performance breakdown. Smart root-cause analysis, instant alerts & daily reports, SaaS or on-premise. CloudBeat is a centralized continuous quality platform that helps create, execute and analyze unit, API, integration and end-to-end tests in a DevOps environment. CloudBeat seamlessly integrates with the most popular testing frameworks and CI tools, allowing to run large test sets with out-of-the-box parallelization, test lab management, and failure root cause analysis. Our mission is to help you to increase your software quality, reduce testing and development time and eventually improve your customer satisfaction.
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