Grafana Loki
8.9#1 in log management softwareFrom $19 a monthFree planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
VisitGrafana Loki vs HyperDX
What both publish
| Fact | Grafana Loki | HyperDX |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment options | self-hosted | both |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | Official documentation lists Grafana Alloy as the recommended collector and describes OpenTelemetry, Promtail, Fluent Bit, Fluentd, Vector, Logstash and other clients. | Documented ingestion options include OpenTelemetry, Fluentd, Fluent Bit, Syslog, AWS services, Cloudflare Workers, Docker, Fly.io, Heroku, Kubernetes and Vercel. |
| License | Grafana states that Loki is released under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3. | The public repository identifies the project as MIT licensed. |
| Live log tailing | Yes | Yes |
| Rating on G2 | 219 reviews are listed for Grafana Labs, the maker of Loki; the profile shows 155 five-star, 62 four-star, 1 three-star and 1 one-star review counts. | 5.0 out of 5 from 1 review |
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—
HyperDX plans
- FreeFree
- Starter$20 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
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.
Pick HyperDX if…
HyperDX may suit engineering teams diagnosing production issues across logs, metrics, traces, and user sessions. Its cloud and self-hosted options offer different deployment paths for teams.