Top 8 Splunk Competitors & Alternatives in 2025
Updated onFind more companies like Splunk. We've shortlisted leading alternatives and mapped their strengths, pricing, and go-to-market focus.
Splunk
Best for enterprisesOperational-intelligence software for ingesting, searching, monitoring and analyzing machine-generated data and logs.
Competitors
#1Datadog is a cloud-scale monitoring and security platform that unifies infrastructure monitoring, application performance (APM), log management, and security observability across metrics, traces, and logs.
Starts at $15 / per host / monthly
#2Est. 2012 • 1k+ employees • Public (NYSE:ESTC)Elastic
Best for enterprisesCreator of Elasticsearch and provider of the official Elastic Cloud managed Elasticsearch service, observability and enterprise support.
#3New Relic
New Relic is a cloud-based observability platform that provides full‑stack monitoring (APM, metrics, logs, traces, and digital experience) and applied intelligence to help engineering teams instrument, troubleshoot, and optimize software.
Starts at $0 / monthly
#4Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic is a cloud-native SaaS continuous‑intelligence platform that unifies log management, metrics, traces and security analytics (cloud SIEM) to help Dev, Sec and Ops teams monitor, troubleshoot, and secure cloud‑native applications.
Starts at $102 / monthly
#5Est. 2014 • 201-1k employeesLogz.io
Best for mid-market companiesOpen-source-based observability platform (logs, metrics, traces, SIEM) with AI features and tools to control telemetry costs.
#6Est. 2014 • 201-1k employeesCoralogix
Best for mid-market companiesIn-stream observability and analytics platform focused on cost-optimized retention, real-time analysis and support for OpenSearch/Elasticsearch use cases.
#7Loggly
Loggly (part of SolarWinds) is a cloud-based log management and analytics service that aggregates, analyzes, and visualizes application and infrastructure logs to help teams troubleshoot, monitor, and report on systems and security.
Starts at $79 / monthly
#8Graylog, Inc.
Graylog, Inc. provides an open-source–based centralized log management and security analytics platform (Graylog Open, Graylog Enterprise, and Graylog Security) for IT operations, DevOps, and security teams, available self‑managed or as a cloud service.
Starts at $15,000 / yearly
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