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 Better Stack, Graylog, Prometheus and Grafana Loki.

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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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Node.JS
     
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  2. Better Stack icon
     158 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.

    220 Better Stack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  4. 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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  5. 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.

    66 Grafana Loki alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. HyperDX icon
     20 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
     
  7. OpenSearch icon
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    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
     
  8. 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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    • Linux
    • Java Mobile
    • BSD
     
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  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

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  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. 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
     
  12. SigNoz icon
     18 likes

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

    190 SigNoz alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
     
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