Log analysis tools are important for proactive monitoring, root cause analysis, security, and automation.
Open-source tools like Graylog, ELK Stack, Fluentd, and Promtail + Loki + Grafana provide log management and analysis capabilities.
Commercial tools such as Splunk, Datadog, Sumo Logic, and Loggly offer comprehensive log analysis features.
For security-oriented log analysis, OSSEC, Wazuh, and cloud-native solutions like AWS CloudWatch Logs, Google Cloud Logging, and Azure Monitor Logs are recommended.
Different log analysis tools cater to specific environments, lightweight tasks, error tracking, and log management for applications and websites.