Open Source Splunk Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Splunk is Grafana. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Splunk and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Splunk are Wazuh, Logstash, Prometheus and Laravel Nightwatch.

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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.

    64 Grafana alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Node.JS
     
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    Grafana is NOT a log monitor. It is only a graphing solution for logs and metrics from many different data sources but you will need solutions to get those logs and metrics in the first place.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    It's not a SIEM tool. Rather, it just displays arbitrary data.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Some users think Grafana is a great Splunk alternative, some don't.

    • Grafana is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Splunk.

    • Grafana is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Splunk.

    • Grafana is Freemium and Open SourceSplunk is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Grafana is Privacy focusedSplunk is not according to our users
  2. Wazuh icon
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    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.

    25 Wazuh alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  3. 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.".

    68 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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    • Some users think Logstash is a great Splunk alternative, some don't.

    • Logstash is Free and Open SourceSplunk is Freemium and Proprietary
  4. 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.

    70 Prometheus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cloudron
    • Docker Hub
     
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    System / performance monitoring centric

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Prometheus is Free and Open SourceSplunk is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Monitor your Laravel applications with precision. Enhance performance and reliability with error tracking, comprehensive logs, and deep insights tailored specifically for Laravel.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Laravel
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. HyperDX icon
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    An open source observability platform: Unify session replays, logs, traces, and errors – all without the Datadog price tag.

    73 HyperDX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  7. 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.

    61 Grafana Loki alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. DeepFlow icon
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    Unify your cloud-native monitoring with zero-code eBPF, advanced profiling, and 10x storage efficiency.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. Tracecat icon
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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.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
     
  10. Fluentd icon
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    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.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  11. Matano icon
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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

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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