Fluentd, initiated in 2011 and donated to the CNCF in 2016 (graduated 2019), is an open-source log collector serving as a unified logging layer with 500+ plugins and multi-output routing, a mainstream log collection solution for Kubernetes.
Google Cloud Monitoring (formerly Stackdriver) is Google Cloud's native observability platform, providing GCP-wide metric collection, Cloud Logging log management, and Error Reporting, with Managed Prometheus and Grafana integration.
Amazon CloudWatch is AWS's native monitoring and observability service, providing metrics, logs, and alarm management across 200+ AWS services, with Logs Insights analysis and X-Ray distributed tracing.
Splunk, founded in 2003 in San Francisco, USA, is a global leader in data and observability (acquired by Cisco), providing log management, SIEM, ITOA, and application monitoring at petabyte scale for 10,000+ enterprise customers.
New Relic, founded in 2008 in San Francisco, USA, is a pioneer in Application Performance Monitoring (APM), delivering full-stack observability across APM, logs, infrastructure, and digital experience for 5M+ users worldwide.
Datadog, founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, USA, is a leading cloud monitoring and observability platform offering infrastructure, APM, log and security monitoring with 3000+ integrations and 30000+ enterprise customers.
Better Stack, founded in 2016 and headquartered in the Netherlands, is an all-in-one observability platform combining uptime monitoring, status pages, and log management. Set up in 20 seconds with HTTP, SSL, Ping, heartbeat checks, and multi-channel alerting. Free tier supports 10 monitors.
Graylog, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, USA, is an open-source centralized log management platform offering log collection, search, alerting, and analysis with a 3-component architecture that scales to TB-level data.
Papertrail is SolarWinds' cloud log management platform, offering real-time log aggregation, full-text search, and alerts as a lightweight log monitoring solution.
Loggly is SolarWinds' leading cloud log management platform, offering centralized log collection, real-time search, and automatic parsing to help teams quickly troubleshoot issues.
Sumo Logic, founded in 2010 in Redwood City, California, is a pioneer in cloud-native log management and observability (NASDAQ: SUMO). Its platform unifies log analytics, SIEM, and APM capabilities.
Sematext is a full-stack observability platform integrating infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, and synthetic monitoring, available as cloud-hosted or self-hosted.
New Relic, founded in 2008 in San Francisco, USA, is a pioneer in Application Performance Monitoring (APM), offering a full-stack observability platform spanning APM, log management, infrastructure monitoring, and digital experience monitoring.
Logtail is a Netherlands-based log management platform by Better Stack, powered by ClickHouse for sub-second log search. It offers real-time log streaming, flexible alerting, and 30+ integrations for quick observability setup.
Founded in 2020, Highlight is an MIT-licensed open-source full-stack observability platform combining session replay, error tracking, log management, and performance monitoring. With 8,000+ GitHub Stars and self-hosted deployment, it is ideal for frontend and full-stack web teams.