Alternatives to Graylog
Self-hosted enterprise log management platform with stream processing and alerts. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Graylog
Self-hosted enterprise log management platform with stream processing and alerts.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Graylog.
Elastic Stack
Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats and Kibana combined for collecting, searching and visualizing logs and other data.
Elastic Stack is the long-established standard for central log analytics with Kibana dashboards, but it is not open source and runs several separate services.
Grafana Loki
Collect and query application logs using label-based indexing.
Grafana Loki indexes logs by label and relies on Grafana for exploration and separate collectors, instead of Graylog's built-in stream processing and alerts.
VictoriaLogs
Store and search logs with a dedicated log-management server.
VictoriaLogs is a free Apache-2.0 log storage and search server without paid tiers, though it needs separately configured log shippers and lacks stream processing.
Parseable
Rust-based self-hosted logging server with columnar storage and a built-in UI.
Parseable is a Rust logging server with columnar S3-native storage, SQL queries and a built-in UI, but it is a younger project than Graylog.
OpenObserve
Collect logs, metrics and traces in a unified observability application.
OpenObserve handles logs together with metrics and traces in one AGPL-3.0 application, with hosted services and enterprise features priced separately.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Graylog as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Seq
A self-hosted server for searching, analysing and alerting on structured logs, traces and metrics.
Graylog is an open-source self-hosted log platform with stream processing and content packs, though enterprise features need a paid tier and scale needs server resources.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Grafana Alloy
An open-source telemetry collector from Grafana Labs that gathers and forwards logs, metrics and traces.
OpenTelemetry Collector
Receive, process and export telemetry through a vendor-neutral collector.
tailspin
Highlight useful patterns in log files without a custom parser.
Grafana
Dashboard and visualization front end for metrics, logs and traces.
HyperDX
Investigate application failures using linked logs, traces and related telemetry.
ElastAlert 2
A self-hosted alerting tool that watches Elasticsearch and OpenSearch data and sends notifications when patterns match.
