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Alternatives to Splunk

Splunk is the enterprise logs + observability incumbent (acquired by Cisco in 2024). Indie alternatives are dramatically cheaper or open source.

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Founded 2003

Acquired by Cisco in 2024 for $28B.

Top indie alternatives

Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with Splunk.

SigNoz

OSS observability.

Open-source, OpenTelemetry-native.

$199/mo (Cloud Team)OSS

Axiom

Logs and events platform.

Smaller team, friendly pricing.

$25/mo

HyperDX

OSS observability.

Logs, traces, replay in one OSS tool.

OpenObserve

OSS observability.

Free, OSS, scales well.

Better Stack

Logs, uptime, infra.

Indie-feeling observability.

$25/mo

Grafana Loki

OSS log aggregation.

Free log aggregation by the Grafana team.

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