Elastic Observability
7.6#18 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 | Elastic Observability | Grafana Loki |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment options | both | self-hosted |
| Integrations | Elastic says its Serverless offering includes over 350 integrations, and its infrastructure monitoring overview lists more than 400 out-of-the-box integrations. | 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 | Elastic Observability unifies application and infrastructure monitoring by bringing logs, metrics, application traces, user experience data, and other telemetry together for analysis. | Loki is a log aggregation system designed to store and query logs from applications and infrastructure. |
Elastic Observability plans
- Observability Serverless Complete—
- Observability Serverless Logs Essentials—
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 Elastic Observability if…
It suits teams that need to analyze application and infrastructure telemetry, investigate incidents, or monitor performance across deployment types. OpenTelemetry support may suit teams seeking vendor-neutral instrumentation.
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.