Telegraf is an open source agent for collecting metrics from infrastructure, applications, and devices.
Alternatives to NXLog
Edge Delta is a telemetry and AI SRE platform for monitoring production systems and investigating incidents.
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Honeycomb
Honeycomb is an observability platform for debugging systems, application code and databases with structured telemetry.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI7.5From $150 a month - 5

Bindplane
Bindplane is an OpenTelemetry-native pipeline for moving metrics, logs, and traces from sources to destinations.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.8From $499 a month - 6

Elastic Agent
Elastic Agent collects logs, metrics, traces, availability, security, and other host data through a single agent.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.7From $99 a month - 7

Mezmo
Mezmo is a paid observability and log-management platform from Mezmo, founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Jose, California.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.7 - 8

OpenSearch
OpenSearch is a community-driven, open-source suite for ingesting, searching, visualizing, and analyzing data.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.7Free plan - 9
rsyslog
rsyslog is an open-source log processing engine that collects, transforms, and routes event data.
Free planLinuxSelf-hostedWindows6.7From €1,999 a year - 10

Cribl Edge
Cribl Edge collects and processes host telemetry, including logs, metrics and application data, then delivers it to Cribl Stream or supported destinations.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.6Free plan - 11

Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline
Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline collects, transforms, enriches, reduces, and routes telemetry for observability and security teams.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.5 - 12
Fluentd
Fluentd is a free, open-source data collector for creating a unified logging layer.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.3Free plan - 13

Tenzir
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.3Free plan - 14

Cribl Stream
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.2Free plan - 15
Logstash
Logstash is an open-source, server-side pipeline for ingesting data, transforming it, and routing it to destinations.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.2Free plan - 16

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) is an AWS-supported distribution of OpenTelemetry for collecting logs, metrics, and traces.
Free planAndroidAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.1Free plan - 17
Fluent Bit
Fluent Bit is a free, open-source telemetry agent for collecting and processing logs, metrics, and traces.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.1Free plan - 18

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is a managed, serverless collector that streams logs, metrics, and traces in real time to OpenSearch Service domains and…
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.0Free plan - 19
Sawmills
WebSelf-hosted6.0From $2,500 a month - 20
PacketRanger
PacketRanger is Tavve’s vendor-neutral telemetry pipeline for ingesting, filtering, transforming, and routing logs, metrics, traces, and network flows.
APISelf-hosted5.8 - 21

DataBahn
DataBahn is an agentic data control plane for security, observability, and AI teams.
WebSelf-hosted5.7 - 22
Vector
Vector is a free, open-source observability pipeline for collecting, transforming, and routing logs, metrics, and traces.
LinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows5.7 - 23
OpenTelemetry Collector
OpenTelemetry Collector is free, open-source software for receiving, processing, and exporting telemetry without tying pipelines to one vendor.
LinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows5.6 - 24
Datadog Observability Pipelines
WebLinux5.5From $0.12 a month - 255.3
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Grafana Alloy
LinuxmacOSWindows4.7 - 274.7
