Best Log Monitoring Tools for Kubernetes
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This a list of Log Monitoring tools that integrate with Kubernetes. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Kubernetes. View the products that work with Kubernetes in the table below.
What are Log Monitoring Tools for Kubernetes?
Log monitoring tools are software tools designed to collect, analyze, and track log data generated by systems, applications, and networks in real-time. They help organizations detect anomalies, performance issues, and security threats by providing insights into operational events and system behaviors. These tools often feature alerting mechanisms that notify administrators of potential issues, ensuring rapid response and minimizing downtime. By aggregating logs from multiple sources, log monitoring tools simplify troubleshooting and provide a centralized view of system health. They are essential for maintaining system reliability, compliance, and proactive problem management in IT environments. Compare and read user reviews of the best Log Monitoring tools for Kubernetes currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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groundcover
groundcover
Cloud-based observability solution that helps businesses track and manage workload and performance on a unified dashboard. Monitor everything you run in your cloud without compromising on cost, granularity, or scale. groundcover is a full stack cloud-native APM platform designed to make observability effortless so that you can focus on building world-class products. By leveraging our proprietary sensor, groundcover unlocks unprecedented granularity on all your applications, eliminating the need for costly code changes and development cycles to ensure monitoring continuity. 100% visibility, all the time. Cover your entire Kubernetes stack instantly, with no code changes using the superpowers of eBPF instrumentation. Take control of your data, all in-cloud. groundcover’s unique inCloud architecture keeps your data private, secured and under your control without ever leaving your cloud premises.Starting Price: $20/month/node -
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Pandora FMS
Pandora FMS
With more than 50,000 customer installations across the five continents, Pandora FMS is a truly all-in-one monitoring solution, covering all traditional silos for specific monitoring: servers, networks, applications, logs, synthetic/transactional, remote control, inventory, etc. Pandora FMS gives you the agility to find and solve problems quickly, scaling them so they can be derived from any source, on-premise, multi cloud or both of them mixed. Now you have that capability across your entire IT stack and analytics to find any problem, even the ones that are hard to find. Thanks to more than 500 plugins available, you can control and manage any application and technology, from SAP, Oracle, Lotus, Citrix or Jboss to VMware, AWS, SQL Server, Redhat, Websphere, etc.Starting Price: €90/month -
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Sematext Cloud
Sematext Group
Sematext Cloud is an innovative, unified platform with all-in-one solution for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real user monitoring, and synthetic monitoring to provide unified, real-time observability of your entire technology stack. It's used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, with the goal of driving collaboration between engineering and business teams, reducing the time of root-cause analysis, understanding user behaviour and tracking key business metrics. The main capabilities range from log monitoring to APM, server monitoring, database monitoring, network monitoring, uptime monitoring, website monitoring or container monitoring Find complete details on our website. Or better: start a free demo, no email address required.Starting Price: $0 -
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Netdata
Netdata, Inc.
The open-source observability platform everyone needs! Netdata collects metrics per second and presents them in beautiful low-latency dashboards. It is designed to run on all of your physical and virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters, and edge/IoT devices, to monitor your systems, containers, and applications. It scales nicely from just a single server to thousands of servers, even in complex multi/mixed/hybrid cloud environments, and given enough disk space it can keep your metrics for years. KEY FEATURES: 💥 Collects metrics from 800+ integrations 💪 Real-Time, Low-Latency, High-Resolution 😶🌫️ Unsupervised Anomaly Detection 🔥 Powerful Visualization 🔔 Out of box Alerts 📖 systemd Journal Logs Explorer 😎 Low Maintenance ⭐ Open and Extensible Try Netdata today and feel the pulse of your infrastructure, with high-resolution metrics, journal logs and real-time visualizations.Starting Price: Free -
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Better Stack
Better Stack
Better Stack is a unified observability tool that helps you ship better software, faster. Schedule on-call rotations, receive actionable alerts, and resolve incidents with ease. Better Stack brings together incident management, uptime monitoring, status pages, log management, and infrastructure monitoring – all in one place. Built for speed and scale, it combines multiple monitoring and alerting workflows into a single, powerful interface that boosts visibility and slashes response times. Key features include an OpenTelemetry-native Kubernetes collector powered by eBPF, real-time alerting, and collaborative dashboards. Under the hood, Better Stack runs on ClickHouse, enabling lightning-fast queries and scalable ingestion across high-cardinality datasets. You can visualize your entire stack, turn all your logs into structured data, and query everything with SQL – as if it were a single database. Seamlessly integrates into your workflow with 100+ integrations.Starting Price: $29 per month -
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Datadog
Datadog
Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.Starting Price: $15.00/host/month -
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Retrospective
centeractive AG
Retrospective is a desktop application for convenient and effective searching in local and distributed log files as well as log data from container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes. Such data sources are accessed on local and/or remote computers and the log data of different format is extracted, combined and displayed in one place (the result table). Advanced features such as profile definition, data source monitoring, sorting/filtering result entries, highlighting, bookmarking, exporting etc. enable fast and robust log data exploration. Retrospective assists you in early error detection by monitoring application servers’ logs, searching for exceptions, etc. The highly optimized search engine together with the aforementioned features ensures that much precious time is saved. Being able to access all log data in one place makes log data processing incredibly efficient, thus ensuring quick and effective reactions to problems, and therefore gain customers’ trust and loyalty.Starting Price: $92 per year -
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Logz.io
Logz.io
We know engineers love open source. So we supercharged the best open source monitoring tools — including ELK, Prometheus, and Jaeger, and unified them on a scalable SaaS platform. Collect and analyze your logs, metrics, and traces on one unified platform for end-to-end monitoring. Visualize your data on easy-to-use and customizable monitoring dashboards. Logz.io’s human-coached AI/ML automatically uncovers errors and exceptions in your logs. Quickly respond to new events with alerting to Slack, PagerDuty, Gmail, and other endpoints. Centralize your metrics at any scale on Prometheus-as-a-service. Unified with logs and traces. Add just three lines of code to your Prometheus config files to begin forwarding your metrics to Logz.io for storage and analysis. Quickly respond to new events by alerting Slack, PagerDuty, Gmail, and other endpoints. Logz.io’s human-coached AI/ML automatically uncovers errors and exceptions in your logs.Starting Price: $89 per month -
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Elastic Observability
Elastic
Rely on the most widely deployed observability platform available, built on the proven Elastic Stack (also known as the ELK Stack) to converge silos, delivering unified visibility and actionable insights. To effectively monitor and gain insights across your distributed systems, you need to have all your observability data in one stack. Break down silos by bringing together the application, infrastructure, and user data into a unified solution for end-to-end observability and alerting. Combine limitless telemetry data collection and search-powered problem resolution in a unified solution for optimal operational and business results. Converge data silos by ingesting all your telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) from any source in an open, extensible, and scalable platform. Accelerate problem resolution with automatic anomaly detection powered by machine learning and rich data analytics.Starting Price: $16 per month -
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SquaredUp
SquaredUp
SquaredUp is a unified observability portal. Say goodbye to blind spots and data silos. Using data mesh and cutting-edge data visualization, SquaredUp gives IT and engineering teams one place to see everything that matters. Bring together data from across your tech stack without the headache of moving the data. Unlike other monitoring and observability tools that rely on a data warehouse, SquaredUp leaves your data where it is, plugging directly into each data source to index and stitch the data together using a data mesh. Teams have one place to go where they can search, visualize, and analyze data across all their tools. Take control of infrastructure, application, and product performance with unified visibility. Free for up to 3 users. What you get: > Cutting-edge data visualization > Access to 100+ data sources > Any custom data source via Web API > Multi-cloud observability > Cost monitoring > Unlimited dashboards > Unlimited monitorsStarting Price: $9 Per user/month -
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DataSet
DataSet
DataSet retains live, searchable real-time insights. Store indefinitely using DataSet-hosted or customer-managed, low-cost S3 storage. Ingest structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data faster than ever before. A limitless enterprise infrastructure for live data queries, analytics, insights, and retention, with no data schema requirements. The technology of choice for engineering, DevOps, IT, and security teams to unlock the power of data. Sub-second query performance powered by a patented parallel processing architecture. Work quicker and smarter to make better business decisions. Ingest hundreds of terabytes effortlessly. No rebalancing nodes, storage management, or resource reallocation. Scale on a limitless flexible platform. An efficient cloud-native architecture minimizes cost and maximizes output. Benefit from a predictable cost model with unmatched performance.Starting Price: $0.99 per GB per day -
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ServiceNow Cloud Observability
ServiceNow
ServiceNow Cloud Observability is a solution that provides real-time monitoring and visibility into cloud infrastructure, applications, and services. It enables organizations to proactively identify and resolve performance issues by integrating data from various cloud environments into a unified dashboard. With advanced analytics and alerting capabilities, ServiceNow Cloud Observability helps IT and DevOps teams detect anomalies, troubleshoot problems, and ensure optimal system performance. The platform also supports automation and AI-driven insights, allowing teams to respond quickly to incidents and prevent potential disruptions. Overall, it improves operational efficiency and ensures a seamless user experience across cloud environments.Starting Price: $275 per month -
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Lightrun
Lightrun
Add logs, metrics and traces to production and staging, directly from your IDE or CLI, in real-time and on-demand. Boost productivity and gain 100% code-level observability with Lightrun. Insert logs and metrics in real-time even while the service is running. Debug monolith microservices, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, ECS, Big Data workers, serverless, and more. Quickly add a missing logline, instrument a metric, or place a snapshot to be taken on demand. No need to replicate the production environment or re-deploy. Once the instrumentation is invoked, the data is printed to the log analysis tool, your IDE, or to an APM of your choice. Analyze code behavior to find bottlenecks and errors without stopping the running process. Easily add large amounts of logs, snapshots, counters, timers, function durations, and more. You won’t stop or break the system. Spend less time debugging and more time coding. No more restarting, redeploying and reproducing when debugging. -
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Cron To Go
Crazy Ant Labs
Cron To Go simplifies the monitoring, alerting, and management of your cron jobs' performance, uptime, and status, ensuring seamless operation. Cron To Go's intuitive dashboard empowers your team to effortlessly monitor and diagnose issues in your background jobs, regardless of their execution location, while ensuring you receive notifications for any job failures. Monitor and get notifications on your job statuses, regardless of where they execute. Cron To Go is a distributed, scalable, and dependable cloud scheduling solution. Cron is no longer a single point of failure. With its guaranteed at-least-once delivery, your jobs are guaranteed to run even in the event of failures, as schedules are retriggered to ensure consistent delivery. You can set schedules with 60-second precision across different time zones, using either the well-known Unix cron format or simple rate expressions. This flexibility allows your jobs to execute several times a day, on chosen days.Starting Price: $0.012 per hour -
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NXLog
NXLog
Achieve complete security observability with powerful insights from your log data. Improve your infrastructure visibility and enhance threat prevention with a versatile multi-platform tool. With support for over 100 operating system versions and more than 120 configurable modules, gain comprehensive insights and increased security. Cut the cost of your SIEM solution by reducing noisy and unnecessary log data. Filter events, truncate unused fields, and remove duplicates to increase the quality of your logs. Collect and aggregate logs from systems across the entire breadth of your organization with a single tool. Reduce complexity in managing security-related events and decrease detection and response times. Empower your organization to meet compliance requirements by centralizing some logs in an SIEM and archiving others in your long-term storage. NXLog Platform is an on-premises solution for centralized log management, with versatile processing. -
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Centreon
Centreon
Centreon is a global provider of business-aware IT monitoring for always-on operations and performance excellence. The company’s holistic, AIOps-ready platform is designed for today’s complex, distributed hybrid cloud infrastructures. Centreon monitors the complete IT Infrastructure from Cloud-to-Edge for a clear and comprehensive view. Centreon removes blind spots, monitoring all equipment, middleware and applications that are part of modern IT workflows, from on-premise legacy assets to private and public cloud environments, all the way to the edge of the network, where smart devices and customers combine to create business value. Centreon is constantly current, able to support the most dynamic environments. With auto-discovery capabilities it can keep track of Software-Defined Network (SDN) elements, AWS or Azure cloud assets, Wi-Fi access points or any other component of today’s agile IT infrastructure. -
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The only real-time, analytics-driven multicloud monitoring solution for all environments (formerly SignalFx). Monitor any environment on a massively scalable streaming architecture. Open, flexible data collection and rapid visualizations of services in seconds. Purpose built for ephemeral and dynamic cloud-native environments at any scale (e.g., Kubernetes, container, serverless). Detect, visualize and resolve issues as soon as they arise. Monitor infrastructure performance in real-time at cloud scale through predictive streaming analytics. Over 200 pre-built integrations for cloud services and out-of-the-box dashboards for rapid visualization of your entire stack. Autodiscover, breakdown, group, and explore clouds, services and systems. Quickly and easily understand how your infrastructure behaves across different services, availability zones, Kubernetes clusters and more.
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