Telegraf is an open source agent for collecting metrics from infrastructure, applications, and devices.
Alternatives to Sawmills
Honeycomb is an observability platform for debugging systems, application code and databases with structured telemetry.
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Edge Delta
Edge Delta is a telemetry and AI SRE platform for monitoring production systems and investigating incidents.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.0From $20 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
NXLog
Free planWebWindowsmacOSLinux6.8From $12.12 a month - 7

Elastic Agent
Elastic Agent collects logs, metrics, traces, availability, security, and other host data through a single agent.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.7From $99 a month - 8
Grafana k6
Grafana k6 is a load-testing tool for Linux that supports load, stress, browser-based, distributed, and API testing.
Free planLinux6.7From $19 a month - 9
rsyslog
rsyslog is an open-source log processing engine that collects, transforms, and routes event data.
Free planLinuxSelf-hostedWindows6.7From $166.58 a month - 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

Mezmo
Mezmo is a paid observability and log-management platform from Mezmo, founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Jose, California.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.6 - 12

OpenSearch
OpenSearch is a community-driven, open-source suite for ingesting, searching, visualizing, and analyzing data.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.6Free plan - 13

Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline
Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline collects, transforms, enriches, reduces, and routes telemetry for observability and security teams.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.5 - 14
Fluentd
Fluentd is a free, open-source data collector for creating a unified logging layer.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.3Free plan - 15

Splunk Enterprise
Splunk Enterprise is a self-hosted platform for collecting, searching, monitoring and analyzing data from across a data ecosystem.
Self-hosted6.3 - 16

Tenzir
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.3Free plan - 17

Cribl Stream
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.2Free plan - 18
Logstash
Logstash is an open-source, server-side pipeline for ingesting data, transforming it, and routing it to destinations.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.2Free plan - 19

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 - 20
Fluent Bit
Fluent Bit is a free, open-source telemetry agent for collecting and processing logs, metrics, and traces.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.1Free plan - 21

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 - 22
PacketRanger
PacketRanger is Tavve’s vendor-neutral telemetry pipeline for ingesting, filtering, transforming, and routing logs, metrics, traces, and network flows.
APISelf-hosted5.8 - 23

DataBahn
DataBahn is an agentic data control plane for security, observability, and AI teams.
WebSelf-hosted5.7 - 24
Vector
Vector is a free, open-source observability pipeline for collecting, transforming, and routing logs, metrics, and traces.
LinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows5.7 - 25
OpenTelemetry Collector
OpenTelemetry Collector is free, open-source software for receiving, processing, and exporting telemetry without tying pipelines to one vendor.
LinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows5.5 - 265.3
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Grafana Alloy
LinuxmacOSWindows4.7
