Free Splunk Alternatives

The best free alternative to Splunk is Grafana, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Splunk and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Splunk are Better Stack, Wazuh, Graylog and Prometheus.

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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
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    • Online
    • Android
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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  2. Grafana icon
     123 likes

    Grafana provides a powerful and elegant way to create, explore, and share dashboards and data with your team and the world.

    84 Grafana alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Node.JS
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  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. 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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  5. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cloudron
    • Docker Hub
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  6. 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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  7. 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.".

    81 Logstash alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Java Mobile
    • BSD
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  8. 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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  9. 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.

    72 Grafana Loki alternatives

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    • BSD
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  10. 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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  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. Goxe  icon
     2 likes

    Goxe is a high-performance log reduction tool written in Go, designed to reduce noise in observability pipelines. It ingests logs via Syslog/UDP, normalizes and filters them, and aggregates identical or repetitive messages into a single-line format with occurrence counts.

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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