Grafana Loki is an open-source, horizontally-scalable log aggregation system designed to be cost-efficient by indexing on labels in a Prometheus-style model. Founded in 2018, it is aimed at teams that want to pair logs with metrics dashboards inside Grafana. It is released under an open-source license and is free to self-host, with a managed option available through Grafana Cloud Logs that includes a free tier. Loki provides live tail and alerting via Grafana along with retention tiers, and holds SOC2 and ISO27001 compliance.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2018
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Log management
- Free tier
- Yes: Open-source (AGPLv3), free to self-host; Grafana Cloud free tier.
- Open-source
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Live tail / search
- Yes
- Alerting
- Yes
- Retention tiers
- Yes