Alibaba Cloud Simple Log Service
6.7#64 in log management softwareWebAPILinuxmacOS
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Grafana Loki
8.9#1 in log management softwareFrom $19 a monthFree planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
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| Fact | Alibaba Cloud Simple Log Service | Grafana Loki |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment options | cloud | self-hosted |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Integrations | The service supports real-time consumption through Spark Streaming, Flume, and Flink, and shipping to OSS, MaxCompute, and TSDB; dashboards can integrate with Grafana and Quick BI. | Official documentation lists Grafana Alloy as the recommended collector and describes OpenTelemetry, Promtail, Fluent Bit, Fluentd, Vector, Logstash and other clients. |
| Live log tailing | Yes | Yes |
| Log pipelines | Yes | Yes |
| Purpose | Simple Log Service collects, processes, stores, queries, analyzes, monitors, and integrates logs, metrics, and traces in real time at scale. | Loki is a log aggregation system designed to store and query logs from applications and infrastructure. |
Alibaba Cloud Simple Log Service plans
- Pay-by-feature—
- Pay-by-ingested-data—
Grafana Loki plans
- Grafana Cloud Logs FreeFree
- Grafana Loki OSS self-hostedFree
- Loki (self-hosted)Free
- Grafana Cloud Logs Pro$19 a month
- Grafana Cloud Logs Enterprise—
Pick Alibaba Cloud Simple Log Service if…
It suits teams that need to collect and analyze logs, metrics, or traces for observability, operations, security audits, or analytics. It may also fit teams building data pipelines or integrating log data with the listed streaming and dashboard tools.
Pick Grafana Loki if…
Loki suits teams that need to aggregate and query application or infrastructure logs and can manage a self-hosted deployment or use Grafana Cloud Logs. Its label-based indexing and LogQL are central considerations for selecting it.