Splunk Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Splunk for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Grafana, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Splunk and loads of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Splunk are Datadog, Wazuh, Prometheus and Logstash.

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  1. Grafana icon
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    Grafana provides a powerful and elegant way to create, explore, and share dashboards and data with your team and the world.

    87 Grafana alternatives

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    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Node.JS
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  2. Datadog icon
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    Monitor and visualize your IT and DevOps environments seamlessly with over 120 integrations, enabling real-time insight across on-premise and cloud deployments. Utilize robust analytics, graphing, and correlation tools for error logging and network monitoring. Improve collaboration and proactive IT management.

    264 Datadog alternatives

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  3. Wazuh icon
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    Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. It is capable of protecting workloads across on-premises, virtualized, containerized, and cloud-based environments.

    36 Wazuh alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. Prometheus icon
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    Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community.

    82 Prometheus alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cloudron
    • Docker Hub
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  5. Logstash icon
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    Logstash is an open source, server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from a multitude of sources simultaneously, transforms it, and then sends it to your favorite "stash.".

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Java Mobile
    • BSD
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  6. VictoriaMetrics can be used as long-term storage for Prometheus or for vmagent.

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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  7. Grafana Loki icon
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    Grafana Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate. It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream.

    73 Grafana Loki alternatives

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    • BSD
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  8. Goxe  icon
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    Goxe is a high-performance log reduction tool written in Go, designed to reduce noise in observability pipelines. It ingests logs via Syslog/UDP, normalizes and filters them, and aggregates identical or repetitive messages into a single-line format with occurrence counts.

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  9. Fawdy icon
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    Fawdy is the AI Reliability Engineer. It reads the logs, the metrics, and the recent deploys, then gives you a real answer. Not "have you tried restarting it." Drafts the timeline, root cause, and fix while it's still fresh.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  10. Matano icon
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    Matano is an open source security lake platform for AWS. It lets you ingest petabytes of security and log data from various sources, store and query them in a data lake, and create Python detections as code for realtime alerting.

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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Fluentd icon
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    Fluentd is a fully free and open-source log management tool that simplifies your data collection and storage pipeline. It eliminates the need to maintain a set of ad-hoc scripts.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  12. Stackify icon
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    Stackify offers the only developers-friendly cloud based solution that fully integrates application performance management (APM) with error tracking and log management.

    88 Stackify alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • ASP.NET
    • PHP
    • Microsoft Azure
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