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Top 13 Alternatives to Open-Source Log Management Tools
January 21, 2026
Simon Abrahams

If you’ve been running log management open-source for a while, you know how it is—popular stacks such as ELK, Grafana Loki, or Graylog give you the power and control you’re looking for, along with a generous side order of cluster babysitting and painful upgrades. Open-source log management can feel amazing right up until your storage costs explode, queries crawl, or the one person who really understands your setup hands in their notice.

Logs, Logs, and More Logs: Why You Need SIEM and How to Make It More Effective
July 1, 2019
Becky Elliott
Four score and one post ago, we talked about Baltimore’s beleaguered IT department, which is in the throes of a ransomware-related recovery. Complicating the recovery mission is the fact that…
Making Dev + Ops Possible with Log Management
October 31, 2018
Melanie Achard
You know how the saying goes—you can’t optimize what you can’t measure, and you can’t measure what you can’t monitor. Perhaps this isn’t a time-tested proverb just yet, but it…