Grafana Loki
8.9#1 in log management softwareFrom $19 a monthFree planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
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Last9 Logs
7.2#31 in log management softwareFrom $700 a monthWebAPISelf-hosted
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| Fact | Grafana Loki | Last9 Logs |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment options | self-hosted | cloud |
| Integrations | Official documentation lists Grafana Alloy as the recommended collector and describes OpenTelemetry, Promtail, Fluent Bit, Fluentd, Vector, Logstash and other clients. | Last9 says it is OpenTelemetry native and supports more than 50 log sources; its broader platform lists 100+ integrations. |
| 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. | Last9 Logs streams, stores, and analyzes logs, with the product page describing millions of logs per minute. |
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—
Last9 Logs plans
- AWS Marketplace 1-month contract — Platform fee$700 a month
- AWS Marketplace 1-month contract — Pay as you go—
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 Last9 Logs if…
Last9 Logs may suit developers, SRE and platform engineers, and engineering leaders who need log search alongside related telemetry. It offers controls for log pipelines, sensitive data, and retention.