# Humio Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 Humio Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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Humio

## What is Humio?

A modern log management platform, Humio is purpose-built for large-scale logging and real-time analysis of all your data, metrics, and traces. Humio takes advantage of modern technologies, including data streaming and index-free architecture, to provide live observability of today's dynamic IT environments. Because Humio collects structured and unstructured data in memory, exploring and investigating anything is blazing fast, even at scale.

## What is Humio used for?

[Log Management](https://www.capterra.com/log-management-software/)

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Overall rating

Based on 11 user reviews

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Starting price

$70

Per User, Per Month

Free trial  
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## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### Humio

4.9 (11)

VS.

[4.5 (241)](https://www.capterra.com/p/172277/ManageEngine-Firewall-Analyzer/reviews/)

Starting Price

$70

Per User, Per Month

Starting Price

$395

Other, One Time

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

4.7 (11)

Ease Of Use

4.5 (241)

Value For Money

4.7 (11)

Value For Money

4.6 (213)

Customer Service

4.9 (10)

Customer Service

4.7 (228)

## Humio alternatives

Highest Rated

[5.0 (16)](https://www.capterra.com/p/10022288/Logmanager/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

100%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[4.5 (212)](https://www.capterra.com/p/164872/Netwrix-Auditor/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

95%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[4.7 (26)](https://www.capterra.com/p/175185/Log360/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

100%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[4.1 (8)](https://www.capterra.com/p/10009082/Log360-Cloud/#reviews)

Starting price

$300.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

100%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/169894/Humio/alternatives/)

## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

API

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Archiving & Retention

Moving and separately storing data that is not actively used or continuous storage of data for compliance purposes

Audit Trail

A record of all activities within the system, including user access, changes made, etc.

Compliance Tracking

Track and report regulatory data to either internal management or external stakeholders

Data Visualization

Graphical representation of data

Event Logs

A chronological record of actions or occurrences within a network, software, or process

Humio 11 features

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Moving and separately storing data that is not actively used or continuous storage of data for compliance purposes

A record of all activities within the system, including user access, changes made, etc.

Track and report regulatory data to either internal management or external stakeholders

Graphical representation of data

A chronological record of actions or occurrences within a network, software, or process

Collects and aggregates data from various systems within the IT environment

Observe and track the demand, usage, progress or quality of a system, product, or user

Identify and orchestrate execution of actions needed to restore systems to optimal conditions

Log files automatically created for all activities performed by servers, such as a history of web page requests

Alerts for when traffic utilization or network performance deviates from pre-defined threshold settings

Features

4.7 (11)

4.7

Based on 11 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

4.7 (11)

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$70.00

Per User,Per Month

Value for money

4.7 (11)

4.7

Based on 11 reviews

## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

4.9 (10)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

4.9 (10)

4.9

Based on 10 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.9

Based on 11 reviews

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5(10)

4(1)

3(0)

2(0)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

Vijay V.

Multi Cloud Database engineer

Telecommunications

### "an excellent APM tool for large data applications"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

April 26, 2021

I am very happy with the product. since it can handle very large data with an exceptional processing speed. It has many advanced features. due to thee many features, in initial felt like GUI is very complex. but later realized GUI is very easy.

Pros

Data ingestion speed is very fast It can handle very huge data can customize the dashboards in simple real time streaming help from community groups

Cons

In initial, the GUI is very confused, due to many features, but later its very easy to use. sometimes GUI takes long time to load the data

Alternatives considered

[Grafana](https://www.capterra.com/p/196036/Grafana-Enterprise/)

[Splunk Enterprise](https://www.capterra.com/p/94317/Splunk/)

[New Relic](https://www.capterra.com/p/118128/New-Relic/)

Reasons for choosing Humio

because of many advanced features & data ingestion speed

Review source

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AU

Anonymous User

Platform Engineering Lead

Information Technology and Services

### "great solution for online log management"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

October 26, 2018

Replaced more expensive logging solution with Humio, ended up getting better service/performance/experience and save a lot of money at the same time.

Pros

Querying language is better than Elasticsearch or similar engines, the team are helpful, price is great, integration easy, and queries are quick.

Cons

No archiving to S3 capability for long term storage of logs.

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Jan M.

CTO, co-founder

Financial Services

### "Humio has changed the way we think about logging"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

October 25, 2018

Today we use Humio across the board, and are a happy customer.

Pros

Humio has changed the way we think logging. A large share of our logs are from software that we develop in-house, and we have found us tailoring our logs with Humio in mind so we can get even better dashboards and insights into our own software. Therefore we often use Humio from early development stage and all the way into production. Integration was simple and performance jaw-dropping, even for complex queries. One of the really powerful features are that you can create ah hoc dashboards without worrying about having the appropriate indexes etc in place.

Cons

There are some challenges on getting the layout of your dashboards right. I think that this can be improved upon. While being intuitive, you still have to learn a new query language. this is an investment you will have to make to get the most out of the product.

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Rasmus H.

System Software Developer

### "Capable of showing you the full overview of your systems, that you never thought were possible."

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

January 29, 2018

Pros

You can create your very own custom dashboards, for both internal and external use. Using the functions in queries, you can customize a large variety, of useful overviews, which enables you to react faster and take action on events in your own systems. It gives a certain comfort, and preparedness, knowing that you can rely on the data from the logs.

Cons

The server nodes is occasionally down, for less or longer time. Resulting in time where real-time overview is "stopped" - but no logs are lost.

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Claus Hedeager R.

Software Pilot

### "Ease of use and great dashboards"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

January 17, 2018

Pros

Humio has made it easy for us to easily debug errors on our server, firstly because of the realtime dashboards and secondly from the realtime searches into our logs. It's the query language is easy to learn and very powerful. The support team is always ready to help.

Cons

When laying out a dashboard, it can be a bit hard to fit a lot of views into one screen, but that just requires the user to focus on the important stuff.

Review source

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AU

Anonymous User

Software pilot

Computer Software

### "We use Humio to monitor our public test systems"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

January 15, 2018

Pros

It is cheap and light weight. It is very intuitive. Makes a good job as a log management tool. I would recommend it.

Cons

On the SAS cloud solution it could be nice to know when the system is changed or when it is down for service.

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OF

Ole F.

Senior Software Engineer

Computer Software

### "Raw log analysis power at your fingertips"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

January 15, 2018

Pros

Setting up log collection with Humio is pretty easy, and once your log data is shipping to Humio, it's just a matter of digging out answers to all your questions using Humio's query language. Humio is FAST, and it's an amazing feeling to be able to get such instant results even on advanced queries in a large amount of log data. Once you've experienced Humio's speed, you don't want to go back to whatever you used before. There is a good selection of graph tools available, and you can create nice dashboards with live data. There's also support for alerts, but I haven't used those yet, so I don't know how well they work. Judging from the rest of the system, it's probably well-thought-out.

Cons

The GUI is not super pretty and can be a bit confusing at times, e.g. when editing graphs on a dashboard. However, once you get to know how to navigate it, it's fast and functional.

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Tobias A.

Co-Founder

Computer Software

### "Great tool that makes it easy to analyze log files from your servers or cloud. It's blazing fast!"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

January 10, 2018

In the beginning we tried to analyze our log files with linux commands like grep / tail and created a lot of custom scripts for doing so. This was cumbersome and error-prone. We were thinking about setting up elasticsearch, but ended up using Humio. It was the right choice for us. It is easy to get started. We use filebeat for ingesting most of our data, but we also make use of their ingest api for some odd cases. When the data is uploaded it is actually fun to analyze and work with the data as Humio is blazing fast and allows us to visualise our logs.

Pros

I really like their intuitive query language that works much like pipes in linux. Eg. the query "error | count()" counts all the log lines that contains the string "error". More complex queries can be constructed by chaining and combining multiple built in functions for grouping events and parsing raw data in the events. Queries can easily be converted into widgets on a dashboard. We use their dashboarding feature for monitoring server and network health status. We currently have ingested more than 100GB of data and most queries only takes a few seconds to complete! It's way faster than searching with ack and even faster than searching with ag/"the silver surfer" on my desktop with SSD.

Cons

Their pricing model is not well fitted for startups. If you need more than 7 days of retention or more than one user, then you need to pay.

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Kasper N.

Cloud Architecture & DevOps Engineering

### "Humio is a great product for getting insights into your running services, infrastructure, etc."

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

January 9, 2018

Our developers are digging into their logs much more than before, setting alerts, creating dashboards. It really means the world in a self-service developer focused microservice environment.

Pros

Search speed, and the developer-friendly query language. We switched to Humio from Elasticsearch/Kibana and the ease of use, and the very dynamic query language just makes it so much easier to dig into your logs.

Cons

We are missing some small features here and there, but the Humio team is very helpful, and listens to our requests.

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LB

Laus B.

Cheif Achitect

### "Extremely powerfull log analyser that put your data at your finger tips."

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

January 8, 2018

Pros

Humio really give your access to your data at your finger tips. When you figure out what you need you just grab it. Even in a tight spot The dashboard and alerts is a life saver that usually makes us able to find and fix issues before our customers notice it.

Cons

Setting up the log streamers and parses can be a bit of a hassle to start with, not that its a big thing though. Getting a nice output for dashboard widgets also requires some wrestling once in awhile.

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