No. 4 of 27 ·Telemetry Pipeline Software

Tenzir

Web · Mac · Linux · Self-hosted · API

Freedom report

Three barsScore 6.6

Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely3 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

Tenzir is ranked #4 of 27 in telemetry pipeline software on Freedom251. It runs on API, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Web. There is a free plan.

Tenzir plans and pricing

All plans

Community Free 1 TB/day ingress · 1 TB edge storage · Platform API · Community Support tenzir.com · 4 Oct 2026

Enterprise Not published Licensed ingress volume · Unlimited edge storage · 1 organization · Unlimited workspaces · Durable pipeline execution · High availability · RBAC · Audit logs · 24x7 support & SLAs tenzir.com · 4 Oct 2026

Sovereign Not published Licensed ingress volume · Unlimited edge storage · Unlimited organizations and workspaces · Self-hosted platform, including air-gapped deployments · Dedicated support · Custom identity provider tenzir.com · 4 Oct 2026

Compared on telemetry pipeline software

Free plan: Yes
Logs support: Yes
Metrics support: Yes
Traces support: Yes
Transform rules: Yes
Multi-destination routing: Yes
Data enrichment: Yes
Deployment model: both

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The record

What it does: Tenzir is a data pipeline engine for security teams to collect, transform, enrich, and route security telemetry.
Pipeline stages: Its building blocks include collection, parsing, shaping, normalization, optimization, protection, enrichment, analysis, detection, storage, search, routing, and replay.
Normalization: Tenzir can map vendor fields into OCSF, ASIM, ECS, CIM, UDM, or a custom schema.
Data reduction: Pipelines can drop unqueried data and deduplicate repeated events to reduce storage cost and analyst noise.
Data protection: The Protect building block supports encryption, pseudonymization, anonymization, masking, salted hashes, redaction, and dropping fields.
Integrations: The integrations directory lists 173 integrations and marks them as available or planned.
Integration examples: Available integrations include Amazon S3, Amazon Security Lake, Amazon SQS, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Event Hubs, and ArcSight.
Deployment: Tenzir nodes run in the customer's environment, while the Community and Enterprise platforms are hosted by Tenzir in AWS in Europe; Sovereign allows platform self-hosting.
Air-gapped use: The Sovereign Edition supports fully air-gapped environments.
Security controls: Enterprise includes external secrets, role-based access control, and audit logs; Sovereign adds a custom identity provider and self-hosted platform.
Support: Community includes community support, Enterprise includes 24x7 support and SLAs, and Sovereign includes dedicated support.
Intended users: The pricing page describes Community for home labbers, researchers, and curious data hackers, Enterprise for enterprises and service partners, and Sovereign for on-premises needs and service providers.
Maker: The maker is Tenzir GmbH, registered in Hamburg, Germany.
Price from: Free

Where it ranks on Freedom251

Best Telemetry Pipeline Software in 2026#4 of 27

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Sources

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