Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Kafka

Kafka

Apache Kafka is publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed commit log.

The top open-source alternatives to Kafka are Raygun, RabbitMQ, and rsyslog. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Raygun Landing Page
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Raygun

Raygun gives developers meaningful insights into problems affecting their applications. Discover issues - Understand the problem - Fix things faster.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Error Tracking #Exception Monitoring #Monitoring Tools 5 social mentions
RabbitMQ Landing Page
2

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ is an open source message broker software.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Integration #Web Service Automation #Stream Processing 1 social mentions
rsyslog Landing Page
3

rsyslog

Rsyslog is an enhanced syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL, PostgreSQL, failover log...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Monitoring Tools #Online Services
Prometheus Landing Page
4

Prometheus

An open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 225 social mentions
Fluentd Landing Page
5

Fluentd

Fluentd is a cross platform open source data collection solution originally developed at Treasure Data.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Security & Privacy #Log Management
Apache Kafka Landing Page
6

Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is an open-source message broker project developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Scala.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Stream Processing #Data Integration #ETL 120 social mentions
Grafana Landing Page
7

Grafana

Data visualization & Monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Dashboard #Data Visualization #Data Analytics 197 social mentions
Zabbix Landing Page
8

Zabbix

Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #DevOps Tools 5 social mentions
Apache Camel Landing Page
9

Apache Camel

Apache Camel is a versatile open-source integration framework based on known enterprise integration patterns.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Integration #ETL #Open Source 12 social mentions
Apache ActiveMQ Landing Page
10

Apache ActiveMQ

Apache ActiveMQ is an open source messaging and integration patterns server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Integration #Stream Processing #Inventory Management 5 social mentions
Amazon SQS Landing Page
11

Amazon SQS

Amazon Simple Queue Service is a fully managed message queuing service.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Stream Processing #Data Integration #Web Service Automation 65 social mentions
Graylog Landing Page
12

Graylog

Graylog is an open source log management platform for collecting, indexing, and analyzing both structured and unstructured data.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 2 social mentions