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VictoriaLogsElastic Stack
Free

Free and open source. Hosting, hardware and any external services are separate.

 Freemium

Components can be downloaded for free; hosted service and advanced features are paid.

Self-hosted Self-hosted
  • Provides log ingestion and querying
  • Supports deployment on your own infrastructure
  • Long-established standard for central log analytics
  • Ingests data from many sources and formats
  • Requires configuring log shippers and retention storage.
  • Several separate services to deploy and maintain
  • Some features are only available from Elastic's paid offerings
Self-hosted Self-hosted, Hosted service
Open source Closed source
License: Apache-2.0 License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 22, 2026

Checked September 23, 2026

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