Graylog AlternativesTop Log Management Tools and other similar apps like Graylog

One of the most popular alternatives to Graylog is Better Stack, which is free for personal use. Other popular alternatives are Datadog, Wazuh, Kibana and Splunk. Web Log Analyzers like Graylog are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for the web, Linux, Windows, Mac and self-hosting.

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  1. Better Stack icon
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    AI-driven SRE platform offering real-time infrastructure monitoring, incident management, log analytics, traces, error tracking, metrics, real user monitoring, status pages, and a warehouse, with full data ingestion, centralized dashboard, custom alerts, and reduced costs.

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    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • US flagUnited States
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  2. Datadog icon
     79 likes

    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.

    263 Datadog alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • US flagUnited States
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  3. Wazuh icon
     24 likes

    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. Kibana icon
     35 likes

    Open-source interface for real-time visualization, search, monitoring logs or metrics, anomaly detection, and natural language queries in Elasticsearch, supporting machine learning, automated alerting, threat detection, and integration with tools like Slack and ServiceNow.

    50 Kibana alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • NL flagNetherlands
    • European Union flagEU
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  5. Splunk icon
     28 likes

    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.

    111 Splunk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Logstash icon
     40 likes

    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.".

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Java Mobile
    • BSD
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  7. HyperDX icon
     22 likes

    An open source observability platform: Unify session replays, logs, traces, and errors – all without the Datadog price tag.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • US flagUnited States
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  8. Grafana Loki icon
     14 likes

    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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  9. Open Web Analytics - Web Analytics – Open Source Web Analytics Framework

    The Open Web Analytics (OWA) framework provides a generic set of PHP and HTTP APIs that application developers can use to integrate web analytics into any application. The Framework also has built-in suppor.

    178 Open Web Analytics alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
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  10. DeepFlow icon
     6 likes

    Unify your cloud-native monitoring with zero-code eBPF, advanced profiling, and 10x storage efficiency.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  11. Fluentd icon
     32 likes

    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. Humio icon
     10 likes

    Humio is log management without limits. Query, aggregate, and visualize your application data instantly, on-premise or in the cloud.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    Dashboards with realtime update
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  13. Sumo Logic icon
     8 likes

    Sumo Logic is the industry’s leading, secure and purpose-built cloud-based machine data analytics service that leverages big data for real-time IT insights.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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