Grafana Loki
8.9#1 in log management softwareFrom $19 a monthFree planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
VisitGrafana Loki vs SparkLogs
What both publish
| Fact | Grafana Loki | SparkLogs |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Supported ingestion tooling includes OpenTelemetry, Grafana Alloy, Vector, Fluent Bit, filebeat, Logstash, Beats, and APIs for HTTPS JSON, Elasticsearch bulk, and Loki push. |
| 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—
SparkLogs plans
- SparkLogs Cloud$100 a month
- Private Cloud$440 a month
- Self-Hosted Querying$2,000 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 SparkLogs if…
SparkLogs suits teams managing large telemetry volumes, fleet investigations, and structured log exploration. It also fits organizations wanting cloud, private-cloud, or self-hosted deployment choices.