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 Grafana, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Splunk are Better Stack, Graylog, Logstash and Datadog.

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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.

    73 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.

    215 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)
     
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  4. Logstash icon
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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.".

    72 Logstash alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Java Mobile
    • BSD
     
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  5. 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.

    244 Datadog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  6. Wazuh icon
     23 likes

    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.

    29 Wazuh alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  7. 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.

    77 Prometheus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cloudron
    • Docker Hub
     
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  8. Tracks event timelines, grouped exception alerts, log searches, SQL query and job performance, third-party integrations, notifications, cache patterns, and scheduled tasks across any Laravel deployment, offering comprehensive health insights and instant setup.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Laravel
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. HyperDX icon
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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
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  10. Dataset icon
     17 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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  11. 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
     
  12. 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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