Kibana Alternatives

Kibana is described as 'Open-source interface for querying, analyzing, and visualizing structured or unstructured data in Elasticsearch with AI, dashboards, and automated incident response' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Kibana for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Linux, Self-Hosted, SaaS and Windows apps. The best Kibana alternative is Grafana, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Kibana are Better Stack, Datadog, Graylog and Prometheus.

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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.

    74 Grafana alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Node.JS
     
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    Grafana vs Kibana Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    2

    Grafana is a graphics package for graphing data. It's not a central log repository with search functions.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
    1

    Isn't able to filter Logs.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    TheBestPessimist
    Negative
    0

    grafana does not deal with logs. it deals with graps.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Grafana is Freemium and Open SourceKibana is also Freemium and Open Source
    • Grafana is Privacy focusedKibana is not according to our users
  2. Better Stack icon
     157 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. Datadog icon
     78 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.

    243 Datadog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  4. Graylog icon
     44 likes

    Graylog is a powerful Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution offering a robust log analytics platform that simplifies the collection, search, analysis, and alerting of all types of machine-generated data.

    71 Graylog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  5. Prometheus icon
     41 likes

    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.

    77 Prometheus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cloudron
    • Docker Hub
     
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    Prometheus vs Kibana Comments
    TheBestPessimist
    Negative
    0

    prometheus does not deal with logs. it deals with graphs and with metrics.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Prometheus is Free and Open SourceKibana is Freemium and Open Source
  6. Grafana Loki icon
     13 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.

    66 Grafana Loki alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. HyperDX icon
     19 likes

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

    78 HyperDX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  8. OpenSearch icon
     9 likes

    OpenSearch is a community-driven, open source search and analytics suite derived from Apache 2.0 licensed Elasticsearch 7.10.2 & Kibana 7.10.2. It consists of a search engine daemon, and a visualization and user interface, OpenSearch Dashboards.

    37 OpenSearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  9. 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.".

    72 Logstash alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Java Mobile
    • BSD
     
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    Logstash vs Kibana Comments
    headkace
    Negative
    0

    Kibana displays data, Logstash pre-processes data. Zero common functionality.

    • Logstash is Free and Open SourceKibana is Freemium and Open Source
  10. DeepFlow icon
     5 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12. ChaosSearch icon
     1 like

    ChaosSearch specializes in data analytics and indexing solutions for large-scale cloud object storage environments. The company is innovating in data indexing and search, making it easier to access and analyze vast amounts of application telemetry data efficiently.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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