Grafana Loki vs SolarWinds Papertrail
Grafana Loki
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| Figure | Grafana Loki | SolarWinds Papertrail |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $19/mo | $5/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 | 1 |
| Spec score · Log Management Software | 9.4 (#3) | 8.3 (#39) |
| Spec score · Log Monitoring Tools | 9.2 (#4) | 7.9 (#20) |
| Deployment options | self-hosted | cloud |
| Integrations | Official documentation lists Grafana Alloy as the recommended collector and describes OpenTelemetry, Promtail, Fluent Bit, Fluentd, Vector, Logstash and other clients. | Alert notifications can be sent through Slack, PagerDuty, Campfire, email, or custom HTTP webhooks. |
| Live log tailing | Yes | Yes |
| Log pipelines | Yes | Yes |
| 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 pricing FAQ directs customers to email [email protected] and says support is available when the team is awake. |
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
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.
SolarWinds Papertrail
SolarWinds Papertrail has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.