🔎Infinity Observe · Active development

The open-source Splunk alternative

Infinity Observe is an open-source, self-hostable observability service in Rust that unifies logs, metrics and traces in a single plane, for teams that want to own their telemetry pipeline.

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// ABOUT SPLUNK

Splunk (now part of Cisco) is an established commercial platform for log analytics, search and security information and event management (SIEM), typically licensed on data ingest volume.

When to consider Infinity Observe

▸You want to self-host log analytics and keep telemetry on your infrastructure
▸You want logs, metrics and traces unified in one service
▸You prefer an open-source, auditable codebase
▸You want to avoid ingest-volume licensing costs
▸You want full-text log search with time and level filters built in

Infinity Observe vs Splunk — at a glance

Splunk
Infinity Observe
Licensing
Proprietary / commercial
Open-source (Apache-2.0)
Hosting model
Splunk is delivered primarily as a vendor-managed service
Self-hosted on your own local, cloud, or hybrid infrastructure
Scope
Log analytics, dashboards, SIEM and security products
Logs, metrics and traces in one plane
Search
SPL query language over indexed data
Full-text log search with time and level filters
Latency stats
Managed analytics
t-digest streaming p50/p90/p95/p99 quantiles
Pricing model
Ingest-volume based licensing
Free to self-host — infrastructure cost only
Maturity
Splunk is an established, widely-adopted platform
Newer project — active development
// AN HONEST NOTE

Splunk is a deeply established platform with powerful SPL search, dashboards and a full SIEM/security product line. Infinity Observe is a newer, self-hosted alternative in active development focused on core observability — it is not a SIEM. Evaluate your security-analytics needs separately.

Splunk alternative — FAQ

Is Infinity Observe a SIEM like Splunk Enterprise Security?
No. Infinity Observe is an observability service for logs, metrics and traces. If you need SIEM capabilities — correlation rules, threat detection, compliance reporting — you will need a dedicated security analytics tool.
Is Infinity Observe free?
Yes — open source and free to self-host. There is no ingest-volume licensing; your cost is your own infrastructure.
What is the status of Infinity Observe?
It is in active development. Assess retention, scale and query needs against your Splunk usage before migrating any workload.
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