# Loggly vs OpenObserve

| Attribute | Loggly | OpenObserve |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 57.9 (49% (low)) | 60.8 (72% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 21,485 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 187 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A cloud service that aggregates logs from multiple sources and provides searching, analysis, visualization, and alerting capabilities for application monitoring and troubleshooting. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"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}` | `{"hosting":"both","alerting":true,"log_role":"backend","dashboards":true,"otel_support":"native","query_language":"SQL, PromQL, VRL","full_text_search":true,"retention_tiering":true,"structured_parsing":true,"object_store_backed":true}` |
| integrations.count | 23 | 9 |
| integrations.list | `[{"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"}]` | `[{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"SQL"},{"name":"PromQL"},{"name":"Apache Parquet"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage"},{"name":"MinIO"}]` |
| language.primary | - | TypeScript |
| license.spdx | - | AGPL-3.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":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"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Cloud","summary":"$0.50/GB ingestion, $0.01/GB query scan","features":["Full-stack observability","Logs, metrics, traces, RUM","SQL and PromQL query support","Retention included","Multi-tenancy","High availability clustering"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.5,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Fully managed cloud observability","contactSales":false},{"free":true,"name":"Self-Hosted Open Source","summary":"Free and open source","features":["Unlimited ingestion","OpenTelemetry native","Full platform access","Community support"],"description":"Community edition under AGPL-3.0 license","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Self-Hosted Enterprise","summary":"Contact sales for pricing","features":["SSO with custom auth providers","Role-based access control","Higher performance","Commercial support"],"description":"Enterprise edition with commercial features and support","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free open-source tier; cloud at $0.50/GB ingestion with flat-rate model (no per-host, per-pod, or per-session meters).","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://openobserve.ai/dynatrace_pricing_comparison/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T23:01:31.048Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.01,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | high | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 4 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.92.2","date":"2026-08-17T13:48:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.92.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.92.1","date":"2026-08-14T07:09:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.92.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.92.0","date":"2026-08-07T09:52:55Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.92.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.92.0-rc4","date":"2026-08-06T14:07:21Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.92.0-rc4"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.92.0-rc3","date":"2026-08-05T09:35:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.92.0-rc3"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.91.5","date":"2026-07-30T06:22:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.91.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.91.4","date":"2026-07-27T17:14:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.91.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.91.3","date":"2026-07-21T17:26:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.91.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.91.2","date":"2026-07-17T07:57:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.91.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.92.0-rc2","date":"2026-07-14T05:34:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.92.0-rc2"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.91.1","date":"2026-07-02T12:07:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.91.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.92.0-rc1","date":"2026-07-01T16:56:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.92.0-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.91.0","date":"2026-06-22T18:33:57Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.91.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.91.0-rc3","date":"2026-06-18T03:34:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.91.0-rc3"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.91.0-rc2","date":"2026-06-11T14:28:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.91.0-rc2"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.91.0-rc1","date":"2026-06-05T13:58:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.91.0-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.90.3","date":"2026-05-26T06:45:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.90.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.90.2","date":"2026-05-22T18:09:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.90.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.90.1","date":"2026-05-21T16:25:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.90.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/releases/tag/v0.90.0","date":"2026-05-19T18:15:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.90.0"}]` |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fopenobserve%2Fopenobserve&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Log Management Software)

| Capability | Loggly | OpenObserve |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 | - | Native |
| Query language | simple keyword search | SQL, PromQL, VRL |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:39:27.993Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*