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Is Splunk printing money like DataDog is?

Any lower priced alternatives? Or self-hosted?

Graylog. It's amazing. Elastic also has an offering.

Graylog is amazing - and if you have resources to burn Security Onion takes it to the next level ;)

Gravwell (https://www.gravwell.io) has a community edition that's free to use and runs locally.