Splunk Alternatives

One of the most popular alternatives to Splunk is Grafana, which is open source with a free version. Other popular alternatives are Better Stack, Datadog, Wazuh and Graylog. You're spoiled for choice with Web Log Analyzers like Splunk: we list more than 100 alternatives for the web, Linux, Windows, Mac and self-hosting.

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  1. Better Stack icon
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    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.

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  2. 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.

    87 Grafana alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Node.JS
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  3. Datadog icon
     79 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.

    264 Datadog alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  4. Wazuh icon
     24 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.

    36 Wazuh alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  5. 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.

    77 Graylog alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  6. Prometheus icon
     43 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.

    82 Prometheus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cloudron
    • Docker Hub
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  7. HyperDX icon
     22 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)

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  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. VictoriaMetrics can be used as long-term storage for Prometheus or for vmagent.

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

    73 Grafana Loki alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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  11. 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)

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    • Online
    • Laravel
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. DeepFlow icon
     6 likes

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

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  13. LogMint icon
     1 like

    LogMint is a lightweight observability platform for SaaS developers and startups. Track logs, metrics, audit events, dashboards, and alerts all from a single SDK.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • npm
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