Best Log Monitoring Tools

Compare the Top Log Monitoring Tools as of July 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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    groundcover

    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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    AdRem NetCrunch

    AdRem NetCrunch

    AdRem Software

    NetCrunch is a powerful, scalable, all-in-one network monitoring system built for modern IT environments. It supports agentless monitoring of thousands of devices, covering SNMP, servers, virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), traffic flows (NetFlow, sFlow), logs, and custom data via REST or scripts. With 670+ monitoring packs and dynamic views, it automates discovery, configuration, alerting, and automates self-healing actions for efficient remote remediation in response to alerts. Its node-based licensing eliminates sensor sprawl and complexity, providing a clear, cost-effective path to scale. Real-time dashboards, policy-driven setup, advanced alert tuning and 40+ alert actions including remote script execution, service restart, process kill or device reboot-make NetCrunch ideal for organizations replacing legacy tools like PRTG, SolarWinds, or WhatsUp Gold. Fast to deploy and future-proof. Can be installed on prem, self hosted in the cloud, or mixed.
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    Starting Price: $1600 for NetCrunch 50 nodes
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    Pandora FMS

    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.
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    Starting Price: €90/month
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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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    Netdata

    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.
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    Starting Price: Free
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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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    SolarWinds Observability SaaS
    SaaS-delivered Observability built to extend visibility across cloud-native, on-prem, and hybrid technology stacks. SolarWinds Observability SaaS delivers unified and comprehensive visibility for cloud-native, on-premises, and hybrid custom and commercial applications to help ensure optimal service levels and user satisfaction with key business services. For internally written and commercial applications. Unified code-level troubleshooting with transaction tracing, code-profiling, and exception tracking combined with end user experience insights through synthetic and real user monitoring. Deep database performance monitoring. Increase system performance, team efficiency, and infrastructure cost savings by offering full visibility into open-source databases including MySQL®, PostgreSQL®, MongoDB®, Azure® SQL, Amazon Aurora®, and Redis®.
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    Checkmk

    Checkmk

    Checkmk

    Checkmk is a comprehensive IT monitoring system that enables system administrators, IT managers, and DevOps teams to identify issues across their entire IT infrastructure (servers, applications, networks, storage, databases, containers) and act quickly to resolve them More than 2,000 commercial customers and many more open source users worldwide use Checkmk daily. Key product features: • Service state monitoring with almost 2,000 checks 'out of the box' • Log and event-based monitoring • Metrics, dynamic graphing, and long-term storage • Comprehensive reporting incl. availability and SLAs • Flexible notifications and automated alert handling • Monitoring of business processes and complex systems • Hardware and software inventory • Graphical, rule-based configuration, and automated service discovery Top use cases: • Server Monitoring • Network Monitoring • Application Monitoring • Database Monitoring • Storage Monitoring • Cloud Monitoring • Container Monitoring
    Starting Price: $0/year
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    Sumo Logic

    Sumo Logic

    Sumo Logic

    Sumo Logic offers a cloud solution for log management and metrics monitoring for IT and security teams of organizations of all sizes. Faster troubleshooting with integrated logs, metrics and traces. One platform. Many use cases. Increase your troubleshooting effectiveness. Sumo Logic helps you reduce downtime and move from reactive to proactive monitoring with cloud-based modern analytics powered by machine learning. Quickly detect Indicators of Compromise (IoCs), accelerate investigation, and ensure compliance using Sumo Logic Security Analytics. Enable data-driven business decisions and predict and analyze customer behavior using Sumo Logic’s real-time analytics platform. The Sumo Logic platform helps you make data-driven decisions and reduce the time to investigate security and operational issues so you can free up resources for more important activities.
    Starting Price: $270.00 per month
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    LogicMonitor

    LogicMonitor

    LogicMonitor

    LogicMonitor’s SaaS-based observability and IT operations data collaboration platform helps ITOps, developers, MSPs and business leaders gain visibility into and predictability across the technologies that modern organizations depend on to deliver extraordinary employee and customer experiences. LogicMonitor seamlessly monitors everything from networks to applications to the cloud, empowering companies to focus less on troubleshooting and more on innovation. Bridge the gap between tech, teams, and IT with powerful real-time dashboards, network device configurations, full data center visibility, network scanning, and flexible alerting and reporting.
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    Logz.io

    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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    SquaredUp

    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 monitors
    Starting Price: $9 Per user/month
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    Icinga

    Icinga

    Icinga GmbH

    Icinga is a monitoring system which checks the availability of your network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates performance data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga can monitor large, complex environments across multiple locations. Icinga 2 is the monitoring server and requires Icinga Web 2 on top in your Icinga Stack. The configuration can be easily managed with either the Icinga Director, config management tools or plain text within the Icinga DSL. Find answers, take actions and become a problem-solver. Be flexible and take your own ways. Stay curious, stay passionate, stay in the loop. Tackle your monitoring challenge. The Icinga stack spans six core strengths that cover all aspects of monitoring. Level up with valuable insights and on-time notifications, eye-opening visuals and analytics. Icinga easily integrates within your systems, and gives you the power to automate your tasks.
    Starting Price: $0
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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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    Falcon LogScale

    Falcon LogScale

    CrowdStrike

    Rapidly shut down threats with real-time detection and blazing-fast search while reducing logging costs. Detect threats faster by processing incoming data in under a second. Find suspicious activity in a fraction of the time of traditional security logging tools. A powerful, index-free architecture lets you log all your data and retain it for years while avoiding ingestion bottlenecks. Collect more data for investigations, and threat hunting, and scale to over 1 PB of data ingestion per day with negligible performance impact. Falcon LogScale takes your searching, hunting, and troubleshooting capabilities to the next level with its powerful, intuitive query language. Dig deeper to gain additional context with filtering, aggregation, and regex support. Quickly scan all events with a free-text search. Live and historical dashboards let users instantly prioritize threats, monitor trends, and troubleshoot issues. Easily drill down from charts to search results.
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    Centreon

    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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    Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
    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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