Logs

VictoriaLogs

VictoriaMetrics

A fast, resource-light open-source log database with its own LogsQL query language, from the VictoriaMetrics team; for self-hosters already running VM for metrics.

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Category: Logs
License: Open source
Deployment: Self-hosted
Cost: Free
Free tier: Yes
Self-host effort: Moderate
Maturity: Rising
Popularity: ≈1.9k GitHub stars; growing

The catch

Genuinely OSS and efficient, but young as a logs product with a small ecosystem — fewer turnkey integrations/UIs than Loki or Elastic, and you bring your own dashboards.

Monitors

Logs

Capabilities

API

Built for

SRE / DevOpsHomelab

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