Grafana Loki
8.9#1 in log management softwareFrom $19 a monthFree planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
VisitGrafana Loki vs SolarWinds Loggly
SolarWinds Loggly
8.1#12 in log management softwareFrom $79 a monthFree planWebAPILinuxmacOS
VisitWhat both publish
| Fact | Grafana Loki | SolarWinds Loggly |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment options | self-hosted | cloud |
| 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. | Loggly integrates with Slack, GitHub, Jira, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, custom webhooks, and other DevOps tools. |
| Live log tailing | Yes | Yes |
| Log pipelines | Yes | Yes |
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—
SolarWinds Loggly plans
- Standard$79 a month
- Pro$159 a month
- Enterprise$279 a month
- LiteFree
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 SolarWinds Loggly if…
Loggly suits teams that need to collect and investigate logs across cloud, hybrid, device, container, and serverless environments. Its plans are positioned for starters, small businesses, growing companies, and enterprises.