Logs
Grafana Loki
Grafana Labs
"Prometheus, but for logs" — index only labels, store log bodies cheaply in object storage; built for cost-conscious Kubernetes/Grafana shops.
- Category
- Logs
- License
- Open core
- Deployment
- SaaS or self-hosted
- Cost
- Low
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Moderate
- Maturity
- Established
- Popularity
- ≈28.3k GitHub stars
The catch
The label-only index is the whole trade-off — wrong (or high-cardinality) labels make queries crawl or OOM, and full-text search across big time ranges is far weaker than Elasticsearch/Splunk.
Monitors
LogsK8sCloud
Capabilities
AlertingDashboardsAPI
Built for
SRE / DevOpsHomelab