# Grafana Loki vs Loggly

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Grafana Loki

| Attribute | Grafana Loki | Loggly |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 67.7 (76% (high)) | 57.9 (49% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 334 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 28,789 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | 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":"backend","live_tail":true,"dashboards":true,"full_text_search":false,"structured_parsing":true,"object_store_backed":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 | 4 | 23 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Docker"}]` | `[{"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"}]` |
| language.primary | Go | - |
| license.spdx | AGPL-3.0 | - |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Always free, no credit card required","features":["All Grafana Cloud services with limited usage","Community support","14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Perfect for personal projects, exploring new ideas, and early-stage startups","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"retention":"14 days","logs_ingested":"50 GB/mo","metrics_series":"10k active series"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"From $19/month + usage with volume discounts","features":["Pay as you go above the Free tier","8X5 email support","13 months retention for metrics","30 days retention for logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests","Automatic volume discounts"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":19,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.05,"currency":"USD","description":"Process rate (logs)"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.4,"currency":"USD","description":"Write rate (logs)"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.1,"currency":"USD","description":"Retain rate (logs)"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"1k series"},"kind":"metered","amount":6.5,"currency":"USD","description":"Metrics (overage)"}],"description":"Ready for scaling with more retention, basic support, and usage-based pricing","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"retention":"30 days","logs_ingested":"50 GB/mo included","metrics_series":"10k active series included"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"From $25,000/year minimum commit with custom pricing","features":["Premium support","Custom retention","Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, Bring Your Own Cloud)","Scalable pricing based on annual commit and volume discounts"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"1k series"},"kind":"metered","amount":3,"currency":"USD","description":"Metrics (as low as with volume discount)"}],"description":"Full-service offering for companies with security, compliance, and deployment requirements","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"minimum_annual_spend":"$25,000"}}],"summary":"Free tier available. Pro from $19/month + metered usage with volume discounts. Enterprise from $25,000/year.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/oss/loki/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-05T13:24:26.849Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.05,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"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 | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | high |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 7 | - |
| release.history | `[{"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"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.7.0","date":"2026-03-26T16:20:44Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.6.8","date":"2026-03-25T17:26:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/operator/v0.10.0","date":"2026-03-18T16:38:26Z","type":"stable","version":"operator/v0.10.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.5.12","date":"2026-03-12T14:29:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.5.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v3.6.7","date":"2026-02-23T10:32:57Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.7"}]` | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 8.1 | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| 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 | Grafana Loki | Loggly |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Pipeline role | Backend | 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 2026-09-01T17:11:16.951Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*