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 Logstash, Wazuh, 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.

    73 Grafana alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Node.JS
     
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  2. 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.".

    72 Logstash alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Java Mobile
    • BSD
     
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  3. 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.

    29 Wazuh alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  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.

    77 Prometheus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cloudron
    • Docker Hub
     
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  5. 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)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Laravel
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. HyperDX icon
     20 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
     
  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.

    66 Grafana Loki alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  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)
     
  9. Goxe  icon
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    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
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. DeepFlow icon
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    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)
     
  11. VictoriaLogs, an open-source log database from VictoriaMetrics, is designed to be user-friendly. It seamlessly integrates with widely used log collectors and offers a more straightforward setup process than Elasticsearch and Grafana Loki.

    8 VictoriaLogs alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
     
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