Self-hosted Log Management Tools
A curated collection of the best self-hosted tools for collecting, processing, and analyzing log data.
The leading distributed search and analytics engine
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Elasticsearch is an open-source, RESTful search engine designed for scalability, reliability, and easy management.
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Open-source observability platform for cloud-native apps
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32,106Last commit
11 hours agoLicense
MIT
Comprehensive monitoring and troubleshooting solution for microservices architectures, offering metrics, traces, and logs in a single pane.
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Cost-effective log aggregation that indexes labels, not full text
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28,892Last commit
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AGPL-3.0
Horizontally scalable, multi-tenant log aggregation system that stores and queries logs using label-based indexing instead of full-text indexing, keeping storage costs low.
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Distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and GenAI monitoring in one
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24,952Last commit
13 hours agoLicense
Apache-2.0
Open source observability platform covering distributed tracing, metrics, logs, profiling, and LLM cost tracking across 10+ languages with eBPF support on Kubernetes.
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Petabyte-scale observability, without the massive bill.
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21,928Last commit
9 hours agoLicense
AGPL-3.0
Monitor logs, metrics, and traces with an open-source observability platform. Achieve petabyte scale with 140x lower storage costs and high performance.
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Collect, transform, and route logs and metrics in one tool
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22,563Last commit
8 hours agoLicense
MPL-2.0
Rust-built observability pipeline tool that collects, transforms, and routes logs and metrics across 47 sources and 62 sinks with no runtime dependencies.
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Centralize, transform, and stash your data
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9 hours agoLicense
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Logstash is a free and open server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from multiple sources, transforms it, and sends it to your desired destination.
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Full-stack observability without the enterprise price tag
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9,889Last commit
9 hours agoLicense
MIT
Open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, traces, metrics and errors. Fast search, automatic clustering, $0.40/GB pricing.
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Full-stack observability without code changes
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7,914Last commit
10 hours agoLicense
Apache-2.0
Coroot simplifies system monitoring by providing metrics, logs, traces, and profiling with zero instrumentation, leveraging eBPF technology.
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Unified observability database for metrics, logs, and traces
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6,674Last commit
14 hours agoLicense
Apache-2.0
Cloud-native observability database unifying metrics, logs, and traces with sub-second queries, 50x cost reduction, and seamless OpenTelemetry integration.
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OpenTelemetry observability with traces, logs, and metrics
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1,782Last commit
20 hours agoLicense
Unknown
Observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse. Collect, visualize, and query distributed traces, logs, and metrics, with an MCP server for AI agent diagnostics.
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Windshift – The self-hosted platform that replaces Jira.
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