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streamalert

The premium Open Source alternative to Splunk

🎯 Best for:Security teams building scalable threat detection without managing servers.
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What is streamalert?

A serverless alternative to Splunk. It ingests logs via Kinesis and uses Lambda to execute Python-based detection logic.

Tech Stack
PythonMonitoring & Logs

Why streamalert?

  • • Zero server maintenance
  • • Highly scalable ingestion
  • • Flexible Python rules

Limitations

  • • AWS vendor lock-in
  • • Lambda execution costs
  • • Complex rule testing
3/3/2026
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Competitor Cost
-$1,440
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$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
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