Alternatives to Datadog Observability Pipelines

The Open Source Edition suits teams seeking a free, self-hosted log collection and routing option.

Bindplane

Bindplane is aimed at observability and security teams, including DevOps and SRE groups managing telemetry operations.

Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline

It is aimed at observability and security teams managing telemetry data costs and complexity.

Honeycomb

The Free plan is described for testing and individual projects; Pro is aimed at teams with a production application.

Elastic Agent

Elastic Agent suits teams collecting telemetry across infrastructure, applications, or mobile devices for search, observability, and security work.

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion

It suits teams collecting and preparing logs, metrics, traces, and other data for OpenSearch destinations.

Fluentd suits teams building self-hosted log pipelines across varied sources and destinations.

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

ADOT suits teams collecting logs, metrics, and traces across AWS or on-premises deployments.

Cribl Stream

Cribl describes Stream for administrators, managers and users of operational, DevOps and security intelligence products and services.

Fluent Bit suits teams collecting telemetry across constrained systems or cloud infrastructure, whether at the edge or in a central collector.

It suits teams that need self-hosted processing for logs, metrics, application data, or AWS inputs.

Cribl Edge

Cribl describes Edge for ITOps and SecOps engineers and users of operational and security intelligence products who want to simplify host data collection and analysis.

rsyslog suits teams that need a self-hosted log pipeline on Linux or related UNIX-like systems.

OpenSearch

OpenSearch suits teams building search, observability, or security analytics applications across on-premises, hybrid, or multicloud deployments.

Tenzir

Community is described for home labbers, researchers, and curious data hackers.