Grafana Loki vs Logz.io Log Management
Grafana Loki
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| Figure | Grafana Loki | Logz.io Log Management |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $19/mo | $0.92/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 5 | 2 |
| Spec score · Log Management Software | 9.4 (#3) | 8.7 (#17) |
| Spec score · Log Monitoring Tools | 9.2 (#4) | 8.4 (#11) |
| Spec score · Log Analysis Software | 9.1 (#4) | 8.4 (#7) |
| 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. | The platform lists more than 300 integrations and supports log shippers including Fluentd, Fluent Bit, Logstash, and Filebeat. |
| Live log tailing | Yes | Yes |
| Log pipelines | Yes | Yes |
| Purpose | Loki is a log aggregation system designed to store and query logs from applications and infrastructure. | Logz.io Log Management centralizes and analyzes log data to help teams investigate production issues and troubleshoot incidents. |
| Security and compliance | Grafana Labs’ trust center lists SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, PCI DSS 4.0.1, GDPR, FedRAMP High and other attestations for its services. | Logz.io states that it is SOC 2 Type II and PCI Level 1 compliant, ISO 27001 certified, and HIPAA and GDPR ready. |
| Structured log parsing | Yes | Yes |
| Support | Grafana directs Loki users to its community forum, Grafana Labs Slack, and the Loki project email for help. | The product page says customers can ask the support team to parse logs or use the self-service Log Parser; the pricing page lists 24/7 customer support among plan details. |
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
Logz.io Log Management
- Log Management$0.92 a month
- EnterprisePrice 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.
Logz.io Log Management
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