Splunk Alternatives

Splunk is described as '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' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Splunk for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Linux, Windows, Mac and SaaS apps. The best Splunk alternative is Better Stack Telemetry. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Grafana or Graylog. Other great apps like Splunk are Wazuh, Logstash, Datadog and Prometheus.

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  1. Better Stack Telemetry icon

    Better Stack Telemetry

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    Transform your stack's logs into structured data with real-time processing of up to 1 billion logs per second. Enjoy fast search with SQL support, customizable retention, alerts for anomalies, and collaborative dashboards to streamline debugging and incident resolution.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • Almost everyone thinks Better Stack Telemetry is a great Splunk alternative.

    • Better Stack Telemetry is the most popular SaaS alternative to Splunk.

    • Better Stack Telemetry is the most popular commercial alternative to Splunk.

    • Better Stack Telemetry is Paid and ProprietarySplunk is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Grafana

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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.

    64 Grafana alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Node.JS
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    Grafana is NOT a log monitor. It is only a graphing solution for logs and metrics from many different data sources but you will need solutions to get those logs and metrics in the first place.

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    It's not a SIEM tool. Rather, it just displays arbitrary data.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Some users think Grafana is a great Splunk alternative, some don't.

    • Grafana is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Splunk.

    • Grafana is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Splunk.

    • Grafana is Freemium and Open SourceSplunk is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Grafana is Privacy focusedSplunk is not according to our users
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    Graylog

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    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.

    65 Graylog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    freeware with good documentation

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    Pretty easy to setup once you figure out the log capture scripts. Then it's very powerful and realiable.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think Graylog is a great Splunk alternative.

    • Graylog is the most popular Web-based alternative to Splunk.

    • Graylog is Freemium and ProprietarySplunk is also Freemium and Proprietary
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    Wazuh

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    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.

    25 Wazuh alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    Logstash

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    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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    Comments about Logstash as an Alternative to Splunk
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    The "L" in the ELK-Stack. i. E. part of a splunk alternative

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    • Some users think Logstash is a great Splunk alternative, some don't.

    • Logstash is Free and Open SourceSplunk is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Datadog

     77 likes
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    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.

    230 Datadog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    Prometheus

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cloudron
    • Docker Hub
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    Comments about Prometheus as an Alternative to Splunk
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    System / performance monitoring centric

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Prometheus is Free and Open SourceSplunk is Freemium and Proprietary
  11. Laravel Nightwatch icon

    Laravel Nightwatch

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    Monitor your Laravel applications with precision. Enhance performance and reliability with error tracking, comprehensive logs, and deep insights tailored specifically for Laravel.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Laravel
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Dataset

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    Log aggregation, search, analysis, dashboards & alerts all in one tool. Diagnose server issues faster and on one screen.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    Much much faster. Better UI overall.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks Dataset is a great Splunk alternative.

    • Dataset is Paid and ProprietarySplunk is Freemium and Proprietary
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    HyperDX

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  14. Grafana Loki icon

    Grafana Loki

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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.

    61 Grafana Loki alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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    DeepFlow

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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