ClickStack vs SolarWinds Papertrail
ClickStack
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| Figure | ClickStack | SolarWinds Papertrail |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $53/mo | $5/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 6 | 1 |
| Spec score · Log Monitoring Tools | 9.3 (#1) | 7.9 (#20) |
| Spec score · Log Management Software | 9.3 (#4) | 8.3 (#39) |
| API | ClickStack has REST APIs for Managed and OSS deployments; managed APIs support dashboard and alert CRUD, while OSS adds chart time-series and webhook endpoints. | The plans page lists a REST API among the included product capabilities. |
| Deployment options | both | cloud |
| Integrations | Documented partners include Bindplane, bitdrift, Odigos and Telflo for collector management, mobile telemetry, eBPF tracing and routing control. | Alert notifications can be sent through Slack, PagerDuty, Campfire, email, or custom HTTP webhooks. |
| Log pipelines | No | Yes |
| Structured log parsing | Yes | Yes |
Plans
ClickStack
- ClickStack Open SourceFree
- ClickStack Open SourceFree
- Managed ClickStack trialFree
- Basic$53 a month
- Scale$437 a month
- Enterprise$571 a month
In their own words
ClickStack
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 Papertrail
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