Collect, search, correlate, and alert on logs from every source in your infrastructure. Self-hosted, compliance-ready, and built for teams that refuse to overpay for observability.
100K+
Events / Second
<50ms
Query Latency
<20MB
Agent Footprint
5 min
Setup Time
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From ingestion to compliance reporting, AethonLog covers the entire log lifecycle.
Collect logs from syslog, HTTP/HEC, OTLP, SNMP traps, NetFlow, and custom agents. One platform, every source.
Full-text search powered by OpenSearch. Filter by severity, host, source type, and time range in milliseconds.
Deploy agents on Linux or Windows in one command. Remote configuration, auto-enrollment, and heartbeat monitoring.
Set threshold-based alert rules with cooldowns. Get notified via Email, Slack, or Webhook when incidents occur.
Fine-grained RBAC with MFA support. Built-in roles for admins, security analysts, operators, and read-only viewers.
Generate audit-ready reports for SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, M-21-31, and NIST 800-171. Federal-ready with CMMC 2.0 mapping.
Ask questions in plain English, get instant answers. AI detects anomalies, explains alerts, and auto-generates incident runbooks.
32 built-in detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Detect brute force, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and exfiltration.
Link related events across sources automatically. Detect attack chains like brute force, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration.
Build personalized dashboards with drag-and-drop widgets. Charts, counters, tables, and timeline views tailored to your workflow.
Production-ready clustering with multi-node OpenSearch, Redpanda, and load-balanced API servers. Zero single points of failure.
Drag-and-drop pipeline editor for parsing, routing, and enriching logs. No YAML required for common transformations.
A modern event-driven architecture that processes hundreds of thousands of events per second.
Sources
Broker
Redpanda
Kafka-compatible
Processing
Storage & API
OpenSearch
Full-text search
PostgreSQL
Metadata & RBAC
React UI
Dashboard & Search
Alerts
Email / Slack / Webhook
Compliance
SOC2 / HIPAA / PCI
AI Assistant
Log Analysis & NLQ
Forwarding
Splunk / S3 / Syslog
Logs flow through Redpanda (Kafka-compatible) for guaranteed delivery and replay. Parse, route, and enrich in parallel.
Add worker nodes to handle more load. OpenSearch and Redpanda clusters scale linearly with your data volume.
Write-ahead logs in Redpanda, persistent storage in OpenSearch, and PostgreSQL for metadata. Your logs survive failures.
No per-GB surprises. No hidden fees. Pick a plan and start shipping logs in minutes.
Self-hosted, single-node AethonLog for homelabs, small teams, and anyone evaluating the platform.
For small teams getting started with centralized logging.
For growing organizations that need compliance, scale, and priority support.
For large deployments, federal, and on-prem requirements.
Cloud AI Assist
$10/user/mo
Bring-your-own Anthropic Claude or OpenAI GPT key for the AI assist features — faster responses and larger context than local Ollama.
File Integrity Monitoring
$4/agent/mo
SHA-256 file monitoring on critical system files. CMMC, PCI-DSS, HIPAA compliant.
Scheduled Compliance Delivery
$99/mo
Auto-generate and email compliance reports daily, weekly, or monthly.
We proudly offer a 10% veteran discount on Starter and Professional plans. Contact us for more information or to discuss custom pricing.
Enterprise features without the enterprise complexity or price tag.
| Feature | AethonLogfree community tier | Splunkfrom $1,800/mo | Datadogfrom $0.10/GB | Elasticfrom $95/mo | Graylogfrom $1,250/mo |
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| Multi-source ingestion | |||||
| Full-text search | |||||
| Real-time streaming | |||||
| Lightweight agents | |||||
| Host metrics collection | |||||
| Role-based access control | |||||
| Event correlation | |||||
| AI assistant | |||||
| Compliance reports | |||||
| Self-hosted option | |||||
| No per-GB pricing surprises | |||||
| Setup time | 5 min | Hours | 15 min | 30 min | 1 hour |
| Agent footprint | <20 MB | 200+ MB | 100+ MB | 100+ MB | N/A |
Comparison based on publicly available information as of 2026. Features and pricing may vary by plan.
Single static binary, no runtime dependencies. ~20 MB RAM idle. Auto-enrolls and self-updates.
Pipe the install script straight from the API server. Add --token <enrollment-token> to auto-enroll.
curl -fsSL https://www.aethonlog.com/install.sh | sudo bashRun from an elevated PowerShell prompt.
iwr -useb https://www.aethonlog.com/install.ps1 | iexDeploy AethonLog in minutes. Start collecting, searching, and alerting on logs from every source.
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