Fluentd Alternatives

    Fluentd is described as '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' and is a Web Log Analyzer in the Network & Admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Fluentd for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Online / Web-based and Self-Hosted solutions. The best alternative is Prometheus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Fluentd are Kibana (Paid), Datadog (Paid), Graylog (Free, Open Source) and Logstash (Free, Open Source).

    This page was last updated Oct 5, 2021
    1. 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.
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    2. Easily visualize data pushed into Elasticsearch from Logstash, es-hadoop or 3rd party technologies like Apache Flume, Fluentd, and many others.
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    4. Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev & Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into a unified view of IT infrastructure. 120+ Integrations!.
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    5. Graylog

      • Free • Open Source
      • Mac
      • Linux
      • Self-Hosted
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      Graylog is an open source syslog implementation that stores your logs in Elasticsearch. It consists of a server and web interface written in Java that accepts your syslog messages via TCP or UDP (or GELF messages) and stores it in the database.
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    6. Logstash

      • Free • Open Source
      • Linux
      • Java Mobile
      • BSD
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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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    8. Splunk is software that provides unique visibility across your entire IT infrastructure from one place in real time. Only Splunk enables you to search, report, monitor and analyze streaming and historical data from any source.
    9. Logtail lets you query your logs the same way you query a database. Experience radically better SQL-compatible log management at an unbeatable price.
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    10. Graphite

      • Free • Open Source
      • Mac
      • Linux
      • Python
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      • Django
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      Graphite is a highly scalable real-time graphing system.
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    11. Telegraf

      • Free • Open Source
      • Mac
      • Windows
      • Linux
      • Self-Hosted
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      Telegraf is a metric collection daemon that can collect metrics from a wide array of inputs and write them into a wide array of outputs. It is plugin-driven for both collection and output of data so it is easily extendable.
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    12. 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.
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