# Datadog Logs vs Grafana Loki

| Attribute | Datadog Logs | Grafana Loki |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 63.7 (45% (low)) | 68 (75% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 334 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 29,009 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A centralized logging platform that aggregates logs from infrastructure and applications, enabling teams to search, correlate, and analyze log data to quickly diagnose issues, optimize performance, and identify security threats. It is indexed under Log Management Software.","source":"https://www.datadoghq.com/product/log-management/","question":"What is Datadog Logs?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Datadog Logs. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.datadoghq.com/product/log-management/","question":"What platforms does Datadog Logs support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Datadog Logs can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.datadoghq.com/product/log-management/","question":"Can Datadog Logs be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 7 integrations for Datadog Logs, including NVIDIA, Weaviate, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Cloud, AWS and Azure. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.datadoghq.com/product/log-management/","question":"What does Datadog Logs integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for Datadog Logs. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Datadog Logs not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.datadoghq.com/security","question":"What security certifications does Datadog Logs have?","confidence":0.7}]` | `[{"answer":"Loki is a distributed log aggregation platform designed for simplicity and cost efficiency. It stores logs with only label metadata indexed rather than full-text content, making it straightforward to operate and integrate with Prometheus and Grafana for unified observability. It is indexed under Log Management Software.","source":"https://grafana.com/oss/loki/","question":"What is Grafana Loki?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Grafana Loki is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the AGPL-3.0 licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $0.05. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://grafana.com/oss/loki/","question":"Is Grafana Loki free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Grafana Loki supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://grafana.com/oss/loki/","question":"What platforms does Grafana Loki support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Grafana Loki can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://grafana.com/oss/loki/","question":"Can Grafana Loki be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 4 integrations for Grafana Loki, including Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes and Docker. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://grafana.com/oss/loki/","question":"What does Grafana Loki integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for Grafana Loki. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Grafana Loki not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://trust.grafana.com","question":"What security certifications does Grafana Loki have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. Grafana Loki is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/grafana/loki","question":"Is Grafana Loki open source?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"Grafana Loki is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://grafana.com/oss/loki/","question":"Where is Grafana Loki available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A cloud service for centralizing, searching, and analyzing application logs to enable rapid troubleshooting and investigation of infrastructure issues. | A horizontally scalable, multi-tenant log aggregation platform that stores compressed logs and indexes them by labels, enabling fast queries and integration with Prometheus-based monitoring stacks. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","alerting":true,"log_role":"platform","live_tail":true,"dashboards":true,"pii_redaction":true,"full_text_search":true,"retention_tiering":true,"structured_parsing":true}` | `{"hosting":"both","alerting":true,"log_role":"backend","live_tail":true,"dashboards":true,"query_language":"LogQL","full_text_search":false,"structured_parsing":true,"object_store_backed":true}` |
| integrations.count | 1,000 | 6 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"Weaviate"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Google Cloud"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"}]` | `[{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Prometheus Alertmanager","native":true,"category":"observability","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Alloy","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Promtail","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Alertmanager","native":true,"category":"alerting","direction":"outbound"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Go |
| license.spdx | - | AGPL-3.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | - | `{"type":"open_source","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Grafana Cloud Logs Free","description":"Fully managed version","includedLimits":{"logs":"50GB/mo"}}],"summary":"Open source. Free tier with 50GB/mo on Grafana Cloud.","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/oss/loki/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T15:08:42.105Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | - | free |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 9 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/operator/v0.12.0","date":"2026-10-07T17:51:23Z","type":"stable","version":"operator/v0.12.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.7.8","date":"2026-09-17T15:51:10Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.6.17","date":"2026-09-17T11:41:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.7.7","date":"2026-08-27T20:20:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.6.16","date":"2026-08-27T21:54:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/operator/v0.11.0","date":"2026-08-18T15:48:41Z","type":"stable","version":"operator/v0.11.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.7.6","date":"2026-08-06T09:42:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.7.5","date":"2026-08-05T03:41:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.6.15","date":"2026-08-06T09:59:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.6.14","date":"2026-08-05T00:25:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.6.13","date":"2026-07-24T07:37:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.7.4","date":"2026-07-24T07:49:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.7.3","date":"2026-06-24T16:32:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.6.12","date":"2026-06-24T15:04:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/operator/v0.10.2","date":"2026-06-09T17:51:17Z","type":"stable","version":"operator/v0.10.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.7.2","date":"2026-05-13T12:22:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.6.11","date":"2026-05-13T12:06:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/operator/v0.10.1","date":"2026-04-16T11:06:37Z","type":"stable","version":"operator/v0.10.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.6.10","date":"2026-04-03T15:41:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.7.1","date":"2026-03-27T11:47:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.1"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.fedramp | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | - | 8 |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | - | https://grafana.com/security/hall-of-fame/issue_35/ |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":1,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fgrafana%2Floki&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"MODERATE"}` |

## Capabilities (Log Management Software)

| Capability | Datadog Logs | Grafana Loki |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Pipeline role | End-to-end platform | Backend |
| **Search** |  |  |
| Full-text log search | ✓ | ✗ |
| Live tail / stream | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Processing** |  |  |
| Structured parsing | ✓ | ✓ |
| PII redaction at ingest | ✓ | - |
| **Ops** |  |  |
| Log-based alerting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dashboards / visualisation | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Retention tiering | ✓ | - |
| Object-store columnar backend | - | ✓ |
| **Interop** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry logs | - | - |
| Query language | - | LogQL |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-20T15:41:39.464Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*