Grafana Loki vs Logflare
Grafana Loki
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| Figure | Grafana Loki | Logflare |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $19/mo | $10/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 8 |
| Spec score · Log Management Software | 9.4 (#3) | 9.1 (#10) |
| Spec score · Log Monitoring Tools | 9.2 (#4) | 9.1 (#6) |
| Deployment options | self-hosted | both |
| Documentation depth | The documentation covers architecture, deployment modes, configuration, ingestion clients, operations, multi-tenancy, LogQL, APIs, troubleshooting, upgrades and release notes. | The documentation covers ingestion, LQL, querying, access tokens, endpoints, alerts, backends, integrations, contributing and self-hosting. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Live log tailing | Yes | Yes |
| Log pipelines | Yes | Yes |
| Query language | LogQL lets users explore logs in Grafana or through the LogCLI command-line tool. | Users can search and filter events with Logflare Query Language and run SQL through the management API. |
| Self-hosting | Local installation instructions provide Linux and Windows binaries and a downloadable configuration file, with Docker, package-manager and Helm deployment paths documented. | Self-hosting is documented for a single machine using Docker Compose with BigQuery or an experimental PostgreSQL backend. |
| Structured log parsing | Yes | Yes |
| What it does | Grafana Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant system for collecting, storing and querying logs. | Logflare ingests and queries structured log events in a BigQuery columnar database. |
Plans
Grafana Loki
- Grafana Cloud Logs FreeFree
- Grafana Loki OSS self-hostedFree
- Loki (self-hosted)Free
- Grafana Cloud Logs Pro$19 a month
- Grafana Cloud Logs EnterprisePrice not published
Logflare
- ProjectFree
- Metered$15 a month
- Metered BYOB$10 a month
- Metered BYOB$10 a month
- Metered$15 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
- ProjectPrice not published
- ProjectPrice not published
In their own words
Grafana Loki
Grafana Loki is a free, AGPLv3-licensed log aggregation system for storing and querying application and infrastructure logs. It can be self-hosted on Linux or accessed through Grafana Cloud Logs plans, with API support and live log tailing. Loki scales horizontally, supports high availability and multiple tenants, and indexes labels instead of log-line contents. LogQL provides queries in Grafana or the LogCLI command-line tool. Grafana describes object-storage support for high-throughput, durable, petabyte-scale retention. Loki can evaluate alerting rules on incoming logs and send results to Prometheus Alertmanager, with native integrations for Prometheus, Grafana, and Kubernetes. Documented ingestion options include Grafana Alloy, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes Monitoring Helm, Docker, Fluent Bit, Fluentd, and Logstash. Installation methods include Helm, Tanka, Docker, Docker Compose, local installation, and source builds. Cloud plans range from free to paid Pro and Enterprise options.