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FluentdLogstash
Free

Free and open source; commercial support is sold separately by other companies.

 Free

Free to download; Elastic sells paid subscriptions and hosted services for the wider…

Self-hosted Self-hosted
  • More than 500 plugins for inputs and outputs
  • Decouples log sources from storage backends
  • Ingests from many sources at the same time
  • Grok parsing turns unstructured logs into fields
  • Aimed at server infrastructure rather than a single desktop
  • Needs configuration and plugins chosen for each setup
  • Designed around the Elastic Stack
  • Server-side pipeline that needs configuration and upkeep
Self-hosted Self-hosted
Open source Open source
License not stated License not stated
No account needed No account needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 24, 2026

Checked October 1, 2026

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