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Instead of Event Log Explorer

Best Event Log Explorer Alternatives in 2026

Taken from Log Management Software, where Event Log Explorer is listed too, in the same order.

  1. 1

    Google Cloud Logging

    Google Cloud Logging is a managed cloud service for storing, searching, analyzing, and alerting on logs in real time.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · Linux · Web · iPhone and iPad
    8.8 Club score
  2. 2

    Elastic Observability

    Elastic Observability brings logs, metrics, application traces, user experience data, and other telemetry together for application and infrastructure monitoring.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    8.7 Club score
  3. 3

    Grafana Loki

    Grafana Loki is a log aggregation system for storing and querying logs from applications and infrastructure.

    • Free plan
    • Open source
    • Windows · Linux · Web · API
    8.6 Club score
  4. 4

    SparkLogs

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    8.6 Club score
  5. 5

    ELK Stack

    The Elastic Stack combines Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash to collect data for search, analysis, and visualization.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · API
    8.6 Club score
  6. 6

    SolarWinds Loggly

    SolarWinds Loggly is a cloud service for monitoring, searching, analyzing, and troubleshooting logs, with tools for visualization, reporting, and collaboration.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    8.5 Club score
  7. 7

    Sumo Logic

    Sumo Logic is a cloud log management service accessed through the web.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    8.4 Club score
  8. 8

    Alibaba Cloud Simple Log Service

    Alibaba Cloud Simple Log Service collects, processes, stores, queries, analyzes, monitors, and integrates logs, metrics, and traces in real time.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    8.4 Club score
  9. 9

    Grafana Cloud Application Observability

    Grafana Cloud Application Observability is a cloud application monitoring product that uses OpenTelemetry and Prometheus data to help software engineers investigate…

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    8.4 Club score
  10. 10

    Oracle Log Analytics

    Oracle Log Analytics is an OCI cloud service for indexing, enriching, searching, analyzing, correlating, visualizing, and monitoring logs from applications and…

    • Free plan
    • Windows · Linux · Web · API
    8.3 Club score
  11. 11

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging is a managed service for collecting, searching, analyzing, exporting, and acting on logs.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · Linux · Web · API
    8.3 Club score
  12. 12

    syslog-ng

    syslog-ng collects infrastructure logs, processes them and routes or stores them for analysis.

    • Free plan
    • Open source
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · API
    8.3 Club score
  13. 13

    Amazon CloudWatch Logs

    Amazon CloudWatch Logs collects and stores logs from AWS resources and applications, as well as on-premises resources and other clouds.

    • Free plan
    • Web · API
    8.2 Club score
  14. 14

    HyperDX

    HyperDX is a production monitoring and debugging platform that brings logs, metrics, traces, and user sessions together to help engineering teams investigate production…

    • Free plan
    • Open source
    • Linux · Web · API · Self-hosted
    8.2 Club score
  15. 15

    Seq

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    8.2 Club score
  16. 16

    logrok

    Logrok is a self-hosted log management and threat detection platform that runs inside a customer’s environment.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    8.1 Club score
  17. 17

    ClickStack

    ClickStack is an open-source observability stack for OpenTelemetry that brings logs, metrics, traces, session replays, and errors together.

    • Free plan
    • Open source
    • Linux · Web · API · Self-hosted
    8.1 Club score
  18. 18

    Azure Monitor

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    8.1 Club score
  19. 19

    http Logs Viewer

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux
    8.1 Club score
  20. 20

    Quickwit

    • Free plan
    • macOS · Linux · Web · API
    8.0 Club score

The whole list: Log Management Software