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Best Log Management Tools
Explore leading tools in the Log Management category, including open-source options and SaaS products. Compare features, use cases, and find the best fit for your workflow.
6 open-source projects · 5 SaaS products
Top open-source Log Management
These projects are active, self-hostable choices for knowledge management teams evaluating alternatives to SaaS tools.
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- AGPL-3.0
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- Apache-2.0
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Open-source platform for monitoring, visualization, and observability
Query, visualize, and alert on metrics and logs from any data source. Build dynamic dashboards, explore data through ad-hoc queries, and foster data-driven collaboration across teams.
Popular SaaS Platforms to Replace
Understand the commercial incumbents teams migrate from and how many open-source alternatives exist for each product.
Better Stack (Log Management)
Cloud-based log management solution for aggregating, searching, and analyzing application logs at scale
Coralogix
Observability and log analytics with real‑time insights
Logz.io
AI-powered observability metrics for distributed systems
Splunk
Data-to-everything platform for machine data
Sumo Logic
Cloud-native log management and analytics service for real-time monitoring and security insights
Better Stack provides a comprehensive log management platform that enables engineering teams to collect, store, and analyze logs from their applications and infrastructure in real time. It offers a centralized log viewer with powerful search and filtering, live tailing, and alerting on log patterns, all with an easy-to-use interface. As part of a unified observability suite, Better Stack’s log management helps developers quickly troubleshoot issues and monitor application health by correlating logs with metrics and uptime data.
Frequently replaced when teams want private deployments and lower TCO.
Explore related categories
Browse neighbouring categories in Observability to widen your evaluation.
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM)Application performance monitoring and profiling tools for in-depth analytics.
- Continuous ProfilingAlways-on code profiling (CPU, memory, locks) to optimize performance in production.
- Distributed TracingTools to trace requests across microservices for performance and debugging.
- Error TrackingPlatforms for capturing and tracking application errors and exceptions (crash reports).
- Incident Management & On-CallOn-call scheduling, paging and incident response orchestration with runbooks and postmortems.
- Infrastructure MonitoringServer and network monitoring tools for uptime, health checks, and alerts.





