# Grafana Loki vs OpenObserve

| Attribute | Grafana Loki | OpenObserve |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 68 (75% (high)) | 65.2 (68% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 334 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 29,009 | 22,343 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 479 |
| content.faq | `[{"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}]` | `[{"answer":"A cost-effective, full-stack observability solution that ingests and monitors logs, traces, metrics, and real-user monitoring data with native OpenTelemetry support. Available as a managed cloud service or self-hosted open-source deployment, using compression and columnar storage to dramatically reduce infrastructure costs. It is indexed under Log Management Software.","source":"https://openobserve.ai/dynatrace_pricing_comparison/","question":"What is OpenObserve?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"OpenObserve 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 $0.01. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://openobserve.ai/dynatrace_pricing_comparison/","question":"Is OpenObserve free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"OpenObserve supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://openobserve.ai/dynatrace_pricing_comparison/","question":"What platforms does OpenObserve support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. OpenObserve can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://openobserve.ai/dynatrace_pricing_comparison/","question":"Can OpenObserve be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 9 integrations for OpenObserve, including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, SQL, PromQL, Apache Parquet, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage, plus 1 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://openobserve.ai/dynatrace_pricing_comparison/","question":"What does OpenObserve integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for OpenObserve. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as OpenObserve not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://openobserve.ai","question":"What security certifications does OpenObserve have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"Yes. OpenObserve 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/openobserve/openobserve","question":"Is OpenObserve open source?","confidence":0.67}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | OpenObserve is a cloud-native observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces, real user monitoring, and AI/LLM observability in a single system. Using Parquet columnar storage on object storage backends, it achieves significantly lower infrastructure costs than traditional platforms while supporting flexible deployment across cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments. |
| features.capabilities | `{"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}` | `{"hosting":"both","alerting":true,"log_role":"backend","dashboards":true,"otel_support":"native","pii_redaction":true,"query_language":"SQL, PromQL, VRL","full_text_search":true,"retention_tiering":true,"structured_parsing":true,"object_store_backed":true}` |
| integrations.count | 6 | 18 |
| integrations.list | `[{"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"}]` | `[{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"SQL"},{"name":"PromQL"},{"name":"Apache Parquet"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage"},{"name":"MinIO"},{"name":"Fluent Bit","native":true,"category":"log_collection","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Vector","native":true,"category":"log_collection","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"notifications","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"PagerDuty","native":true,"category":"incident_management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Okta","native":true,"category":"identity","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Microsoft Entra","native":true,"category":"identity","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Workspace","native":true,"category":"identity","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"container_orchestration","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Docker","native":true,"category":"containerization","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Azure AD","native":true,"category":"identity","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Syslog","native":true,"category":"log_collection","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"bidirectional"}]` |
| language.primary | Go | TypeScript |
| license.spdx | AGPL-3.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":["US","EU","IN"],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":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"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Cloud Professional","summary":"$0.50/GB ingested + $0.01/GB queried, billed monthly. 30% discount with annual commitment.","features":["Logs, Metrics, Traces, RUM, Session Replay, Error tracking","Unlimited users","Single Sign-On (SSO)","Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)","19+ dashboard chart types","Real-time and scheduled alerts","Natural language query assistant","Pipelines with data transformation"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gb"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gb"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Pay-as-you-go fully managed cloud","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"metrics_retention_months":"15","non_metrics_retention_days":"30"}},{"free":true,"name":"Self-Hosted Enterprise Free","summary":"Free up to 50 GB/day ingestion","features":["All observability features","Single Sign-On (SSO)","Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)","Audit trail with 365-day immutable logs","Sensitive data redaction","Federated search","Query management"],"description":"Self-hosted with enterprise features, free tier","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"max_daily_ingestion_gb":"50"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","features":["Custom volume discounts","Bring Your Own Bucket (BYOB) - infinite retention","All observability features","AI-Powered Observability with incident management and AI SRE agent","Premium support","Deployment flexibility (cloud, on-prem, air-gapped)","HIPAA compliance support","PCI-DSS compliance support","Architecture reviews","SLAs"],"description":"Custom-scale deployment with compliance and flexible storage","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Additional retention for non-metrics data","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gb"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.02,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $0.50/GB ingested + $0.01/GB queried. 14-day free trial (no card required). Self-hosted free up to 50 GB/day.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://openobserve.ai/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T13:50:57.219Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"unit":"gb","amount":0.01,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 9 | 5 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | 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"}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=nixpkgs&package_name=openobserve&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Log Management Software)

| Capability | Grafana Loki | OpenObserve |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Pipeline role | Backend | 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 | - | Native |
| Query language | LogQL | SQL, PromQL, VRL |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:19:35.309Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*