SolarWinds Loggly vs VictoriaLogs

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.

VictoriaLogs is an open-source database for storing and analyzing logs. It accepts structured and unstructured log data without requiring a schema, and LogsQL provides full-text search and log analytics. It supports log pipelines, structured parsing, live tailing, archive export, OpenTelemetry, and a service map. Deployment can be single-node or clustered, using prebuilt binaries, Docker, or Kubernetes. The single-node and cluster versions are available under the Apache License 2.0, and the open-source plan is free. By default, entries older than seven days are dropped. Integrations include Grafana, Perses, Bindplane, and Logchef; ingestion from Vector and Fluent Bit is also described. VictoriaMetrics says the system uses up to 30 times less RAM and up to 15 times less disk space than Elasticsearch and Grafana Loki. HTTPS, Basic Auth, and TLS are supported; security guidance recommends a trusted network or an authorization proxy for internet requests. mTLS is an Enterprise feature, with commercial support also offered.