# Datadog Logs vs Loggly

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Datadog Logs

| Attribute | Datadog Logs | Loggly |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 67.5 (48% (low)) | 57.9 (49% (low)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | A cloud service that aggregates logs from multiple sources and provides searching, analysis, visualization, and alerting capabilities for application monitoring and troubleshooting. |
| 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":"cloud","alerting":true,"log_role":"platform","dashboards":true,"query_language":"simple keyword search","full_text_search":true,"retention_tiering":true,"structured_parsing":true,"object_store_backed":false}` |
| integrations.count | 1,000 | 23 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"Weaviate"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Google Cloud"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"}]` | `[{"name":"Amazon CloudWatch"},{"name":"Amazon ELB"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"AWS Lambda"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Flowdock"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Graylog"},{"name":"HipChat"},{"name":"JIRA Software"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Mandrill"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Monolog"},{"name":"New Relic"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Pushover"},{"name":"Rollbar"},{"name":"Sentry"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"VictorOps"},{"name":"Webhooks"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | - | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Lite","summary":"Free","features":["Centralized log management","Automated log summaries","Search & filters"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"volume":"200 MB/day","retention":"7 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"$79/month billed annually","features":["All Lite features","Unlimited users","Up to 3 source groups","Email alerting","Charts and dashboards","Email support"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":79,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"volume":"1 GB/day","retention":"15 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$159/month billed annually","features":["All Standard features","Up to 5 source groups","Email and webhook alerts","Custom derived fields (up to 10 rules)","API access","Archive to Amazon S3","Peak Overage Protection"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":159,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"volume":"up to 100 GB/day","retention":"15-30 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["All Pro features","Unlimited source groups","Unlimited derived field rules","Custom retention periods","Technical success management","GitHub integration","JIRA integration","Anomaly detection","Federated identity management"],"commitment":"annual","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"volume":"custom","retention":"15-90 days"}}],"summary":"From $79/month (annual billing), with free tier","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.loggly.com/plans-and-pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T23:07:57.436Z","freeTrialDays":30,"startingPrice":{"amount":79,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | - | high |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |

## Capabilities (Log Management Software)

| Capability | Datadog Logs | Loggly |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Pipeline role | End-to-end platform | End-to-end platform |
| **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 | - | simple keyword search |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud only |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:26:57.447Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*