Free Kibana Alternatives

The best free alternative to Kibana is Grafana, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Kibana and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Kibana are Graylog, Prometheus, Grafana Loki and HyperDX.

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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. 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.

    70 Graylog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. 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.

    76 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
  4. 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.

    65 Grafana Loki alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. HyperDX icon
     19 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
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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.".

    71 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
  8. DeepFlow icon
     5 likes

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

    65 DeepFlow alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. 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
     
  10. Sematext Logs icon
     17 likes

    Sematext Logs is a cloud-based SaaS log management solution that offers you real-time actionable insights into your log analytics with hosted ELK as a service, in the cloud or on-premises.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. SigNoz icon
     18 likes

    Open source observability platform. SigNoz helps developers find issues in their deployed applications & solve them quickly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. IQLECT icon
     8 likes

    IQLECT is the creator of Ampere, a real-time big data analytics platform. Various apps for data center infrastructure monitoring, clickstream analysis, log analysis and others can be deployed on the platform.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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