18.4
Grafana Cloud Application Observability is a cloud application monitoring product that uses OpenTelemetry and Prometheus data to help software…
Free planAndroidiOSWeb
Best Log Monitoring Tools in 2026
Log monitoring tools collect and help you inspect system and application logs. They can support searching, retention, alerting and live views for hosted or self-managed setups. Compare free plans, paid starting prices, retention and ingestion limits, then check deployment choices, search language, alerts and live tail.
28.4
Logflare combines log management and application performance management for collecting and analyzing application events.
Open sourceAndroidiOSWeb
38.2
Grafana Loki is a log aggregation system for storing and querying logs from applications and infrastructure.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinux
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Google Cloud Logging
Google Cloud Logging is a cloud service for storing and working with logs through a web interface.
Free planiOSWebAPILinux8.0From $0.01 a month - 5
ClickStack
ClickStack is an open-source observability stack for OpenTelemetry that brings logs, metrics, traces, session replays, and errors together.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted7.9From $53 a month - 6
Seq
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.8From $1,090 a year - 7
Better Stack
Better Stack is a platform for incident management, on-call work, uptime monitoring, status pages, telemetry, error tracking, and real user monitoring.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI7.6From $29 a month - 8
SolarWinds Loggly
SolarWinds Loggly is a cloud-based service for monitoring, analyzing, troubleshooting, visualizing, and reporting on logs, with collaboration tools.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.6From $79 a month - 9
Sumo Logic
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.6Free plan - 10
Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Amazon CloudWatch Logs collects and stores logs from AWS services and resources, applications, on-premises systems, and other clouds.
Free planWebAPI7.5$0.03 usage-based - 11
Azure Monitor
WebAPILinuxmacOS7.0 - 12
Parseable
Parseable is an open observability platform for logs, metrics, and distributed traces.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted7.0From $0.39 a month - 13
SolarWinds Observability
SolarWinds Observability combines application, digital experience, database, infrastructure, network, and log data to help teams detect problems,…
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.9From $5 a month - 14
Elastic Observability
Elastic Observability brings logs, metrics, application traces, user experience data, and other telemetry together for application and infrastructure monitoring.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.8 - 15
Logz.io Log Management
WebAPI6.7From $0.92 a month - 16
Mezmo
Mezmo is a paid observability and log-management platform from Mezmo, founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Jose, California.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.7 - 17
OpenSearch
OpenSearch is a community-driven, open-source suite for ingesting, searching, visualizing, and analyzing data.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.7Free plan - 18
Oracle Log Analytics
Oracle Log Analytics is an OCI cloud service for collecting and investigating logs from applications and infrastructure, whether they run in the cloud or on premises.
Free planWebAPILinuxWindows6.7Free plan - 19
SolarWinds Papertrail
WebAPI6.4 - 20
Graylog Enterprise
Graylog Enterprise centralizes log management for IT teams, parsing, enriching, and analyzing logs across an environment in real time.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.2From $15,000 a year - 21
Splunk Enterprise
Splunk Enterprise is a self-hosted platform for collecting, searching, monitoring and analyzing data from across a data ecosystem.
Self-hosted6.2 - 22
OpenObserve
OpenObserve is a web-based log management product with pipelines, structured log parsing, live log tailing, and archive export.
Free planWeb6.1Free plan - 23
Alibaba Cloud Simple Log Service
Alibaba Cloud Simple Log Service collects, processes, stores, queries, analyzes, and monitors logs, metrics, and traces in real time.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.0 - 24
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
WebLinuxWindows5.8From $15 a month - 25
Datadog Logs
Web5.6From $0.05 a month
Choosing well
Check plans and starting prices
A free plan is offered by tools in this category, while pricing models also include freemium, paid and free. Compare what the free plan covers with the paid starting price.
A free trial can help you assess a paid service before committing. Confirm trial length and any limits on the plan you choose.
Match deployment to your setup
Platform choices listed for this category include web, API, Linux, Windows, self-hosted and macOS. Choose a hosted service or a deployment you can operate and maintain.
If you need phone access, check Android availability directly because it is not included in the platform facts here.
Compare retention and ingestion
Log retention affects how far back you can investigate events. Ingestion limits affect how much log data a service accepts, so compare both with your expected workload.
Review search and alert features
Compare the search language supported by a tool and how it handles log alerting. A live tail can help you watch incoming events as they arrive, when that view is available.
Check licence and code access
Open-source code is offered by tools in this category. If you need to read or change the code, check the licence and the deployment requirements before choosing.
Questions people ask
Do these log monitoring tools have Android apps?
Android is not included in the listed platform facts. Check the individual product details if you need log access from an Android phone or tablet.
Can I start with a free plan?
A free plan is offered by tools in this category. Pricing models also include freemium, paid and free, so compare plan limits and paid starting prices.
What platforms are listed?
The listed platforms are web, API, Linux, Windows, self-hosted and macOS. Android support is not shown in the platform facts.
What should I compare for log capacity?
Compare log retention and ingestion limits. Retention controls how far back you can inspect data, while ingestion limits control accepted log volume.
Are open-source options available?
Open-source code is offered by tools in this category. Review the licence and deployment requirements before using or modifying the code.