Logflare
Logflare combines log management and application performance management for collecting and analyzing application events.
What Logflare is
Logflare combines log management and application performance management for collecting and analyzing application events. It accepts ingestion from Cloudflare, Vercel, Elixir, JavaScript, Heroku, Gigalixir, Fluent Bit, and webhooks. Structured metadata is supported, with schemas adjusted as fields change, and events can be queried using standard SQL in BigQuery. Users can build Google Data Studio dashboards, follow logs live, export archives, and create log pipelines. Alerts can be sent by email, webhook, Slack, or Discord for all users; SMS alerts are available to paid subscribers. The free Project plan costs nothing and includes up to 50 fields, three days of retention, and 12,960,000 events monthly, with an average ingestion limit of five events per second.
Good
- Structured metadata with automatic schema management
- SQL queries through BigQuery
- Live tailing, archive export, and log pipelines
- Email, webhook, Slack, and Discord alerts
- Supports web, iOS, Android, API, and self-hosting
Watch out
- Free ingestion averages five events per second
- SMS alerts require a paid subscription
- Self-hosted mode lacks team features
Who it suits
Logflare suits teams that need structured application logging, SQL querying, dashboards, and alerts across web, mobile, API, or self-hosted deployments. Its plans also address users wanting a free tier or BigQuery-based retention.
Verdict
Logflare brings ingestion, structured event analysis, dashboards, and alerting into one service. The free Project plan is available, while paid options add higher limits, retention choices, and BigQuery ownership.
Plans and prices
From Logflare's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Metered BYOB | $10 a month | unlimited team members and sources · 1-minute alerts · Google Data Studio included · customer BigQuery backend · up to 500 fields · unlimited retention · unlimited events subject to fair use · unlimited rate limits · up to 10M shown · starts at $10 per million log events after one million, paid monthly |
| Metered | $15 a month | unlimited team members and sources · 1-minute alerts · Google Data Studio included · Logflare backend · up to 500 fields · up to 90 days retention · unlimited events subject to fair use · unlimited rate limits · up to 10M shown · starts at $15 per million log events after one million, paid monthly |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | custom event volumes · EU ingestion · AWS support · custom storage pipelines |
| Project | — | 0 additional team members · unlimited sources · 4-hour alerts · no dashboards · no natural-language queries · Logflare backend · up to 50 fields · up to 3 days retention · 12,960,000 events/month · 5 events/second average rate · burst 300 · per month |
The facts
Each one read from Logflare's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Alerts
- Query Alerts run BigQuery SELECT statements on schedules of at least five minutes and can notify Slack or webhooks.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API authentication
- Access tokens support ingest, query and management scopes plus Bearer, X-API-KEY and query-parameter authentication.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Archive export
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Automatic schema
- Logflare detects new fields in incoming events and updates the underlying BigQuery schema automatically.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Backends
- Managed BigQuery is the default backend, while BYOB BigQuery and other multi-backend adapters are supported; multi-backend mode is private alpha.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Dashboards
- BigQuery integration provides Google Data Studio dashboards and direct access to the underlying table for Google-authenticated users.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- bothchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation covers ingestion, LQL, querying, access tokens, endpoints, alerts, backends, integrations, contributing and self-hosting.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Elixir client limitation
- The Elixir logger backend warns that BigQuery type changes can reject later events and that non-binary messages are unsupported.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Endpoint API
- Endpoints expose SQL queries as GET or POST HTTP APIs returning JSON, but the feature is alpha and private preview.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Ingestion
- The site lists Cloudflare, Vercel, Elixir, JavaScript, Heroku, Gigalixir, Fluent Bit, and webhooks as ingestion options.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Ingestion API
- The getting-started API accepts batched JSON through a POST request with an X-API-KEY header and source identifier.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Ingestion integrations
- The product lists Cloudflare, Vercel, Elixir, JavaScript, Heroku, Gigalixir, Fluent Bit and webhook ingestion.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The public Logflare repository is licensed under Apache-2.0.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: adoption complexity
- A Reddit commenter said the product's use cases were difficult to understand, and another described moving from Elastic as a significant effort.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Live log tailing
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Log pipelines
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Management API
- The query API uses GET /api/query with SQL and requires a management-scoped access token.checked 15 Oct 2026
- News: acquisition
- Supabase announced its acquisition of Logflare on December 2, 2021, identifying Chase Granberry as founder.checked 15 Oct 2026
- News: scale and licence
- A Supabase article dated April 10, 2023 said Logflare handled more than one billion events per day for Supabase and had changed from the Business Source License to Apache 2.0.checked 15 Oct 2026
- OpenTelemetry
- An OpenTelemetry integration accepts events directly from OpenTelemetry SDKs.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- Logflare says it is now part of Supabase and directs users to Supabase for support.checked 3 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Free tier limit
- The free plan averages a limit of 5 log events per second over the last 60 seconds, and ingestion stops when that average is reached.checked 3 Oct 2026
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