Free Splunk Alternatives

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   Fawdy

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   Fawdy is the AI Reliability Engineer. It reads the logs, the metrics, and the recent deploys, then gives you a real answer. Not "have you tried restarting it." Drafts the timeline, root cause, and fix while it's still fresh.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Origin

   • United States

   Since

   • Since 2026

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Mac
   • Linux

   • United States

   

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   Tracecat

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   Tracecat is the AI-native, open source automation platform for security teams. Build automation workflows and close cases fast. Deploy your first AI-assisted workflow in 15 minutes.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Workflow Automation

   Since

   • Since 2024

   Platforms

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

   

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   Matano

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   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

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Since

   • Since 2023

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Self-Hosted

   

   

   

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   Coroot

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   Coroot is an open-source observability and APM tool with AI-powered Root Cause Analysis. It combines metrics, logs, traces, continuous profiling, and SLO-based alerting with predefined dashboards and inspections.

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Application type

   • Error Logger

   Since

   • Since 2025

   Platforms

   • Online
   • Software as a Service (SaaS)
   • Self-Hosted
   • Docker
   • Kubernetes

   

   

   

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   Fluentd

    33 likes

   Fluentd is a fully free and open-source log management tool that simplifies your data collection and storage pipeline. It eliminates the need to maintain a set of ad-hoc scripts.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Application type

   • Web Log Analyzer

   Since

   • Since 2014

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux

   

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   Treblle

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   Treblle is a federated API Intelligence platform delivering full API visibility, security, and control from one integration point.

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Origin

   • Croatia
   • EU

   Since

   • Since 2023

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Mac
   • Online
   • Software as a Service (SaaS)
   • Android
   • iPhone
   • iPad
   • Android Tablet

   • Croatia
   • EU

   

   

   

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    NXLog

     7 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 typeApplication types

    • Log Analyzer
    • Log Management

    Origin

    • United States

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet

    • United States

    

    

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    Sematext Logs

     17 likes

    Sematext Logs is a cloud-based SaaS log management solution that offers you real-time actionable insights into your log analytics with hosted ELK as a service, in the cloud or on-premises.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application typeApplication types

    • Log Management
    • Web Log Analyzer

    Origin

    • United States

    Since

    • Since 2014

    Platforms

    • Online

    • United States

    

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    Positive comment by Guest · Dec 22, 2017

    With Sematext Cloud/Enterprise you can use any log shipping format or shipper you want (syslog, Logstash, Fluentd, Flume, nxlog, Filebeat). Plus, Sematext allows you to correlate logs with performance metrics quickly, easily and without contracts or commitments.

    Positive comment by Guest · Jun 27, 2016

    It's a hosted and on-premises log centralizing solution

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    • Sematext Logs is Freemium and ProprietarySplunk is also Freemium and Proprietary
    • Sematext Logs is LightweightSplunk is not according to our users
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    Tines

     1 like

    Tines is the smart, secure workflow builder for your whole team. Build workflows and automate processes with the only platform purpose-built to empower technical teams.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Workflow Automation

    Origin

    • Ireland
    • EU

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)

    • Ireland
    • EU

    

    

    

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    tirreno

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    tirreno is an open-source SIEM to monitor and protect your web application from cyber fraud, account takeovers, fake accounts, and abuse. Get started for free.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

    Origin

    • Switzerland

    Since

    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker

    • Switzerland

    

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    Graphite Monitoring

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    Graphite is a highly scalable real-time graphing system. As a user, you write an application that collects numeric time-series data that you are interested in graphing, and send it to Graphite's processing backend, carbon, which stores the data in Graphite's specialized...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Since

    • Since 2012

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Django

    

    

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    SigNoz

     17 likes

    Open source observability platform. SigNoz helps developers find issues in their deployed applications & solve them quickly.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Network Monitor

    Origin

    • United States

    Since

    • Since 2021

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron

    • United States

    

    

    

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