Loggly vs OpenObserve
On the evidence we track, OpenObserve leads this comparison with a composite score of 65/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for log management software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Loggly
A cloud service that aggregates logs from multiple sources and provides searching, analysis, visualization, and alerting capabilities for application monitoring and troubleshooting.
OpenObserve
LeaderOpenObserve 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.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Loggly
From $79/month (annual billing), with free tier
- LiteFree
- Centralized log management
- Automated log summaries
- Search & filters
- Standard$79/month billed annually
- All Lite features
- Unlimited users
- Up to 3 source groups
- Email alerting
- Charts and dashboards
- +1 more
- Pro$159/month billed annually
- All Standard features
- Up to 5 source groups
- Email and webhook alerts
- Custom derived fields (up to 10 rules)
- API access
- +2 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- All Pro features
- Unlimited source groups
- Unlimited derived field rules
- Custom retention periods
- Technical success management
- +4 more
OpenObserve
LeaderFrom $0.50/GB ingested + $0.01/GB queried. 14-day free trial (no card required). Self-hosted free up to 50 GB/day.
- Cloud Professional$0.50/GB ingested + $0.01/GB queried, billed monthly. 30% discount with annual commitment.
- Logs, Metrics, Traces, RUM, Session Replay, Error tracking
- Unlimited users
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- 19+ dashboard chart types
- +3 more
- Self-Hosted Enterprise FreeFree
- All observability features
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Audit trail with 365-day immutable logs
- Sensitive data redaction
- +2 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- 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
- +5 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Amazon S3
- Docker
- PagerDuty
- Slack
Loggly
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon ELB
- AWS Lambda
- Elasticsearch
- Flowdock
- GitHub
- Graylog
- HipChat
- JIRA Software
- Logstash
- Mandrill
- Microsoft Teams
- Monolog
- New Relic
- Pushover
- Rollbar
- Sentry
- VictorOps
- Webhooks
OpenObserve
Leader- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- SQL
- PromQL
- Apache Parquet
- Google Cloud Storage
- Azure Blob Storage
- MinIO
- Fluent Bit
- Vector
- Okta
- Microsoft Entra
- Google Workspace
- Kubernetes
- Azure AD
- Syslog
- Terraform
Loggly or OpenObserve: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.