Splunk AlternativesOnly Open Source apps categorised as Log Management Tools

The best open source Log Management alternative to Splunk is Logstash. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Splunk and seven of them are open source Log Management Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Log Management Tool alternatives to Splunk are Laravel Nightwatch, HyperDX, Grafana Loki and Matano.

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  1. Logstash icon

    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.".

    71 Logstash alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Java Mobile
    • BSD
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    The "L" in the ELK-Stack. i. E. part of a splunk alternative

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    • Logstash is Free and Open SourceSplunk is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. Laravel Nightwatch icon

    Laravel Nightwatch

     5 likes

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

    54 Laravel Nightwatch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Laravel
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  4. HyperDX icon

    HyperDX

     19 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
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  5. Grafana Loki icon

    Grafana Loki

     13 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.

    65 Grafana Loki alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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  6. Matano icon

    Matano

     3 likes

    Matano is an open source security lake platform for AWS. It lets you ingest petabytes of security and log data from various sources, store and query them in a data lake, and create Python detections as code for realtime alerting.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. OpenObserve icon

    OpenObserve

     1 like

    A cloud-native observability platform built specifically for logs, metrics, traces, analytics, RUM (real user monitoring — performance, errors, session replay) designed to work at petabyte scale.

    53 OpenObserve alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
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  9. NXLog icon

    NXLog

     5 likes

    A modern logger/log collector with a multi-threaded design, clear configuration syntax, multi-platform support and clean source code.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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