ClickStack vs SolarWinds Loggly

ClickStack is an open-source observability stack for OpenTelemetry that brings logs, metrics, traces, session replays, and errors into one system. Its HyperDX interface provides Lucene-style search, SQL access, dashboards, alerts, event deltas, and event patterns. A bundled OpenTelemetry Collector handles native collection, while non-OTel wide event data can be used when it has a timestamp field. ClickStack stores data in ClickHouse and is designed for high-cardinality telemetry, with the product site describing sub-second queries even on petabytes of data. It supports self-hosted, hybrid, and cloud deployment. Managed ClickStack runs on ClickHouse Cloud with operations, scaling, upgrades, backups, reliability, authentication, and user management included. The managed offer advertises indefinite retention and storage below one cent per GB. An MCP server connects observability workflows with coding tools, collaboration services, runbooks, and custom agents.

SolarWinds Loggly is a cloud service for monitoring, analyzing, troubleshooting, visualizing, and reporting on logs, with collaboration features. It collects logs without proprietary agents and accepts syslog over TCP, UDP, or TLS, as well as HTTP/S. Sources include public and private clouds, AWS, Azure, hybrid environments, devices, containers, Linux, Windows, Mac, and serverless systems. Loggly automatically parses logs and provides search, filters, statistical analysis, field exploration, charts, dashboards, and surround search. It integrates with Slack, GitHub, Jira, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, custom webhooks, and other DevOps tools. The fully functional 30-day trial needs no credit card and includes Enterprise-tier features; afterward, the account converts to the free Lite package. Lite lists 200 MB per day and seven-day retention. Standard costs $79 a month, billed annually, and includes 1 GB per day with 15-day retention. Data is automatically and permanently deleted at the end of the retention period.