Dozzle vs Splunk Enterprise
Dozzle and Splunk Enterprise are both log management software. Dozzle is open source under MIT, with 15k GitHub stars. Splunk Enterprise is a commercial product from Cisco.
Which to pick
- Pick Dozzle when
- You run containers on a few hosts and want to watch logs in a browser without a logging stack.
- Pick Splunk Enterprise when
- A large organisation needs one platform for security and operations data at high volume and has staff who can write SPL and run the deployment.
Side by side
A lightweight web UI that streams live logs from Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes containers, with search and multi-host support.
Indexes and searches machine data such as logs, metrics and events, with its own query language (SPL), dashboards, alerting and a security (SIEM) layer on top.
It does not store logs, so history is limited to what Docker keeps.
Licensing is priced on data volume or compute and gets expensive quickly, and running it on your own servers takes dedicated administrators.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Go, Vue and TypeScript
Not published
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Cisco
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
15k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 8 years ago, latest release v11.4.0.
Not known
Other comparisons
More log management tools
Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.