Grafana Loki
8.9#1 in log management softwareFrom $19 a monthFree planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
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IBM Cloud Logs
6.4#82 in log management softwareWebAPI
VisitWhat both publish
| Fact | Grafana Loki | IBM Cloud Logs |
|---|---|---|
| Alerting | The Loki ruler evaluates log queries continuously and integrates with Prometheus Alertmanager or Grafana alerting. | Alert suppression rules can automatically dismiss similar alerts after a user dismisses an alert. |
| Deployment options | self-hosted | cloud |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Integrations | Official documentation lists Grafana Alloy as the recommended collector and describes OpenTelemetry, Promtail, Fluent Bit, Fluentd, Vector, Logstash and other clients. | Documented integrations include Activity Tracker Event Routing, Cloud Logs Routing, Object Storage, Event Streams, Event Notifications, and IAM. |
| Live log tailing | Yes | Yes |
| Log pipelines | Yes | Yes |
| Purpose | Loki is a log aggregation system designed to store and query logs from applications and infrastructure. | IBM Cloud Logs processes, stores, and queries logs to help detect issues and improve infrastructure and application performance. |
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—
IBM Cloud Logs plans
- Standard - Store and search—
- Standard - Store and searchPriced on request
- Standard - Analyze and alert—
- Standard - Analyze and alertPriced on request
- Standard - Priority insights (7 days)—
- Standard - Priority insights (7 days)Priced 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 IBM Cloud Logs if…
It suits DevOps and SRE teams needing cloud log processing, search, monitoring, alerting, and archival. It is relevant to organizations choosing retention tiers and integrations around IBM Cloud services.