Grafana Loki
8.9#1 in log management softwareFrom $19 a monthFree planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
VisitGrafana Loki vs SolarWinds Papertrail
SolarWinds Papertrail
6.9#53 in log management softwareWebAPI
VisitWhat both publish
| Fact | Grafana Loki | SolarWinds Papertrail |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Alert notifications can be sent through Slack, PagerDuty, Campfire, email, or custom HTTP webhooks. |
| 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 Papertrail plans
- Log Observability$5 a month
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 Papertrail if…
You want what its maker publishes above — check its page for the details.