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

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Kafka

Kafka
RabbitMQ rsyslog Fluentd Prometheus Grafana Apache Kafka Graylog Amazon SQS Apache ActiveMQ NATS

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Kafka are RabbitMQ, rsyslog, and Fluentd. 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.
  1. RabbitMQ is an open source message broker software.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Data Integration #Stream Processing #Web Service Automation 1 social mentions

  2. Rsyslog is an enhanced syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL, PostgreSQL, failover log...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Log Management #Monitoring Tools #Online Services

  3. Fluentd is a cross platform open source data collection solution originally developed at Treasure Data.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Log Management #Monitoring Tools #Machine Data Analytics

  4. An open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Application Performance Monitoring #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 278 social mentions

  5. Data visualization & Monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Data Analytics #Application Performance Monitoring #Data Dashboard 240 social mentions

  6. Apache Kafka is an open-source message broker project developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Scala.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Data Integration #Monitoring Tools #Stream Processing 144 social mentions

  7. Graylog is an open source log management platform for collecting, indexing, and analyzing both structured and unstructured data.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Log Management #Testing #Performance Monitoring 2 social mentions

  8. Amazon Simple Queue Service is a fully managed message queuing service.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Hosting #Data Integration #Stream Processing 72 social mentions

  9. Apache ActiveMQ is an open source messaging and integration patterns server.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Data Integration #Stream Processing #DevOps Tools 7 social mentions

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    NATS.io is an open source messaging system for cloud native applications, IoT messaging, Edge, and microservices architectures.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Data Integration #Developer Tools #Message Queue 73 social mentions

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    Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Log Management #Performance Monitoring #Monitoring Tools 5 social mentions

  12. 12
    Open Source Host and Endpoint Security
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security Information And Event Management (SIEM) #Monitoring Tools #Cyber Security 51 social mentions

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