Best Log Monitoring Tools

Compare the Top Log Monitoring Tools as of October 2025

What are Log Monitoring Tools?

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 currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Sematext Cloud

    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.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    Better Stack

    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.
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    Starting Price: $29 per month
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    Datadog

    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.
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    Starting Price: $15.00/host/month
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    Dynatrace

    Dynatrace

    Dynatrace

    The Dynatrace software intelligence platform. Transform faster with unparalleled observability, automation, and intelligence in one platform. Leave the bag of tools behind, with one platform to automate your dynamic multicloud and align multiple teams. Spark collaboration between biz, dev, and ops with the broadest set of purpose-built use cases in one place. Harness and unify even the most complex dynamic multiclouds, with out-of-the box support for all major cloud platforms and technologies. Get a broader view of your environment. One that includes metrics, logs, and traces, as well as a full topological model with distributed tracing, code-level detail, entity relationships, and even user experience and behavioral data – all in context. Weave Dynatrace’s open API into your existing ecosystem to drive automation in everything from development and releases to cloud ops and business processes.
    Starting Price: $11 per month
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    Sentry

    Sentry

    Sentry

    From error tracking to performance monitoring, developers can see what actually matters, solve quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. With Sentry’s performance monitoring you can trace performance issues to poor-performing api calls and slow database queries. Source code, error filters, stack locals — Sentry enhances application performance monitoring with stack traces. Quickly identify performance issues before they become downtime. View the entire end-to-end distributed trace to see the exact, poor-performing API call and surface any related errors. Breadcrumbs make application development a little easier by showing you the trails of events that lead to the error(s).
    Starting Price: $26 per month
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    SolarWinds Loggly
    SolarWinds® Loggly® is a cost-effective, hosted, and scalable full-stack, multi-source log management solution combining powerful search and analytics with comprehensive alerting, dashboarding, and reporting to proactively identify problems and significantly reduce Mean Time to Repair (MTTR). LOGGLY AT A GLANCE » Full-stack, multi-source log aggregation, log monitoring, and data analytics » Log analytics show events in context, highlight patterns, and detect anomalies for deeper insights » Highly scalable to ingest massive data volumes and help enable quick searching across large and complex environments » Spot usage patterns with application, service, and infrastructure-aligned historical analysis of user, log, and infrastructure data » Manage by exception by identifying variations from normal with powerful log formatting and analytic search capabilities
    Starting Price: Free
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    Stackify Retrace
    After one too many unexpected late night code fires, we went searching for a set of application performance management tools to help us put an end to it. What we found told us what was broken, but lacked the ability to tell us why our applications failed, or how to maintain them and prevent the potential dumpster fire. So, we built Retrace to do exactly that. From pre-production to deployment, it is our belief that when our 1300+ customers spend less time fighting technology they spend more time releasing it, and those new applications make the world a better place for all of us.
    Starting Price: $99/month
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    Atatus

    Atatus

    NamLabs Technologies

    NamLabs Technologies is an Indian software company that publishes a software suite called Atatus. Atatus is a SaaS software & a full stack observability platform. It provides a wide range of monitoring capabilities including Application Performance Monitoring, Real-User Monitoring/ End User Monitoring/ Browser Monitoring, Synthetic Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, Logs Monitoring, and API Analytics. Analyze the performance of your application for performance issues such as slow transactions, database queries, website availability, uptime, latency, response time, and throughput, much more. 24x7 customer support is guaranteed.
    Starting Price: $49.00/month
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    SmartBear AQTime Pro
    Debugging should be simple. AQTime Pro synthesizes complex memory and performance information into digestible, actionable insights so you can quickly find bugs and their root cause. Finding and squashing highly differentiated bugs is tedious and complicated, but AQTime Pro makes it easy. With over a dozen profilers, you can find memory leaks, performance bottlenecks, code coverage gaps and more in just a few clicks. AQTime Pro enables you to squash all bugs with one tool and get back to making high quality code. Don’t let code profilers box you in with a single codebase or framework and prevent you from finding performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, code coverage gaps unique to your project. AQTime Pro is the one tool to use across multiple codebases and frameworks in a project. It has broad language support for C/C++, Delphi, .NET, Java and more.
    Starting Price: $719 one-time payment
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    ServiceNow Cloud Observability
    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

    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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    D2C

    D2C

    D2C

    D2C help developers and companies to automate routine DevOps tasks like deployment, configuring, scaling and managing apps on servers. D2C has 18 ready-made services inside including popular databases, HTTP servers, and interpreters. Others can be easily added from the official Docker Hub or custom Docker image. The platform supports AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Vultr, and UpCloud for now. You can also connect your own hosts with Ubuntu 18.04/20.04 or Debian 8/9. With D2C scaling and balancing becomes a game. It’s easy with the platform to build a balanced infrastructure, change database configuration, and resize hosts. With the latest apps management technologies like Docker and Ansible inside D2C, you can utilize a single-click deployment from your repository to a cloud server in minutes. D2C will help with load balancing, monitoring, and logging. Simply choose the appropriate ready tools and manage IT infrastructure yourself from the control panel.
    Starting Price: $50.00/month/user
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    ServicePilot

    ServicePilot

    ServicePilot

    ServicePilot has a simple objective, to provide an accurate view of the IT and applications: security, availability and performance. Teams have a difficult problem, maintaining applications in perfect working order in a high-performance and secure way. This is not an easy task in this world of agile development, frequent changes, rapid evolution and ever-increasing complexity of information systems architecture. Since their introduction, a lot has changed in IT: Cloud computing has become the new standard, mobile devices have become more powerful, the Internet of Things is growing more and more, and micro-services and containers are changing the way applications are built. These changes are leading to new needs, and old tools will find it hard to adapt and will be insufficient. A new generation of monitoring tools has become necessary. However, the infrastructure, the network and the storage should not be neglected because applications would not work without them.
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