Open-source alternatives to Splunk

Splunk in the Data & BI category. These are the open alternatives we recommend looking at.

Elasticsearch

Distributed search and analytics engine with a REST API for text, logs and vectors.

AGPL-3.0Network copyleft (AGPL)Open core

SaaS: Yes, with conditionsClosed product: No

GitHub stars
78.2k
Deployment
Docker
Login/SSO
SAML, OIDC, LDAP

Grafana Loki

System for collecting and querying logs, using the same labels as Prometheus.

AGPL-3.0Network copyleft (AGPL)

SaaS: Yes, with conditionsClosed product: No

GitHub stars
29k
Deployment
Docker

OpenObserve

Platform for logs, metrics, traces and user monitoring with low storage cost.

AGPL-3.0Network copyleft (AGPL)Open core

SaaS: Yes, with conditionsClosed product: No

GitHub stars
22.2k
Deployment
Docker
Login/SSO
OIDC, SAML

OpenSearch

Distributed search and analytics engine, an Apache-licensed continuation of Elasticsearch.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
13.8k
Deployment
Docker
Login/SSO
SAML, OIDC, LDAP

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