Grafana Loki
8.9#1 in log management softwareFrom $19 a monthFree planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
VisitGrafana Loki vs Tencent Cloud CLS
Tencent Cloud CLS
6.2#89 in log management softwareWebAPILinux
VisitWhat both publish
| Fact | Grafana Loki | Tencent Cloud CLS |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | CLS documentation describes shipping logs to COS, CKafka, and DLC, with service-role permissions required for those tasks. |
| Log pipelines | Yes | Yes |
| Purpose | Loki is a log aggregation system designed to store and query logs from applications and infrastructure. | CLS provides real-time log collection, storage, search, analysis, consumption, and shipping for operational, security, regulatory, and analytical needs. |
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—
Tencent Cloud CLS plans
- Pay-as-you-go (postpaid)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 Tencent Cloud CLS if…
You want what its maker publishes above — check its page for the details.