Available worldwide
What is Grafana Loki?
Grafana Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available log aggregation system designed to be cost-effective and easy to operate. It indexes only labels rather than full log contents, enabling efficient storage and query performance at petabyte scale.
Grafana Loki pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier available. Pro from $19/month + metered usage with volume discounts. Enterprise from $25,000/year.
Free
FreePerfect for personal projects, exploring new ideas, and early-stage startups
- retention
- 14 days
- logs_ingested
- 50 GB/mo
- metrics_series
- 10k active series
- All Grafana Cloud services with limited usage
- Community support
- 14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests
Pro
Ready for scaling with more retention, basic support, and usage-based pricing
- retention
- 30 days
- logs_ingested
- 50 GB/mo included
- metrics_series
- 10k active series included
- 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
Enterprise
Contact salesFull-service offering for companies with security, compliance, and deployment requirements
- minimum_annual_spend
- $25,000
- Premium support
- Custom retention
- Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, Bring Your Own Cloud)
- Scalable pricing based on annual commit and volume discounts
What Grafana Loki does
The capabilities that matter for log management software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Pipeline role
- Backend
- Full-text log search
- ✗
- Live tail / stream
- ✓
- Structured parsing
- ✓
- PII redaction at ingest
- -
- Log-based alerting
- ✓
- Dashboards / visualisation
- ✓
- Retention tiering
- ✓
- Object-store columnar backend
- ✓
- OpenTelemetry logs
- -
- Query language
- LogQL
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (50)
Independently observed- Linux
- Windows
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Elasticsearch
- Redis
- Kafka
- Apache Spark
- Apache Cassandra
- Jenkins
- GitLab
- GitHub
- Jira
- Salesforce
- Splunk
- Datadog
- New Relic
- Dynatrace
- Prometheus
- Grafana Agent
- Grafana Alloy
- Grafana Loki
- Grafana Mimir
- OpenSearch
- InfluxDB
- Prometheus
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Cloudflare
- NGINX
- Apache HTTP Server
- HAProxy
- Traefik
- Node.js
- Java JVM
- Spring Boot
- Oracle Database
- SQL Server
- CockroachDB
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- PagerDuty
- Honeycomb
- Sumo Logic
- HashiCorp Vault
- Istio
Grafana Loki alternatives
Other log management software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Grafana Loki, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 90 | 0.13 | 11.6 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.17 | 8.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 0.07 | 7.0 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 63 | 0.10 | 6.6 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.07 | 5.7 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 58 | 0.09 | 5.4 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 92 | 0.06 | 5.3 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 0.05 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 84 | 0.03 | 2.4 | ✓ |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 0.15 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 28,652 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"both","alerting":true,"log_role":"backend","live_tail":true,"dashboards":true,"query_language":"LogQL","full_text_search":false,"retention_tiering":true,"structured_parsing":true,"object_store_backed":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | AGPL-3.0 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 95% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 14 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70% |
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |