Open Source InfluxDB Alternatives

The best open source alternative to InfluxDB is Prometheus. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to InfluxDB and 11 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to InfluxDB are Grafana Loki, Graphite Monitoring, VictoriaMetrics and Hydra Postgres Analytics.

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  1. Prometheus icon
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    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
     
  2. 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.

    65 Grafana Loki alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Graphite is a highly scalable real-time graphing system. As a user, you write an application that collects numeric time-series data that you are interested in graphing, and send it to Graphite's processing backend, carbon, which stores the data in Graphite's specialized...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Django
     
  4. VictoriaMetrics can be used as long-term storage for Prometheus or for vmagent.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    VictoriaMetrics vs InfluxDB Comments
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    It doesn't crash and doesn't lose data. It needs less RAM and CPU. It doesn't break during upgrades.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • VictoriaMetrics is Free and Open SourceInfluxDB is Freemium and Open Source
  5. Hydra is an open source, column-oriented Postgres. Query billions of rows instantly, no code changes.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  6. QuestDB icon
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    QuestDB is a relational column-oriented database designed for time series and event data. It uses SQL with extensions for time series to assist with real-time analytics.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Cortex provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    RRDtool (acronym for round-robin database tool) aims to handle time-series data like network bandwidth, temperatures, CPU load, etc. The data are stored in a round-robin database (circular buffer), thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. TimescaleDB icon
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    An open-source database built for analyzing time-series data with the power and convenience of SQL — on premise, at the edge or in the cloud.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. OpenTSDB icon
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    OpenTSDB is a distributed, scalable Time Series Database (TSDB) written on top of HBase. OpenTSDB was written to address a common need: store, index and serve metrics collected from computer systems (network gear, operating systems, applications) at a large scale, and make this...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. Warp 10 icon
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    Warp 10 is an Open Source Geo Time Series Platform designed to handle data coming from sensors, monitoring systems and the Internet of Things.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Java
     
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