Grafana Loki vs. LogDNA

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Grafana Loki
Score 6.9 out of 10
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Grafana Logs (powered by Loki) brings together logs from applications and infrastructure in a single place. By using the exact same service discovery and label model as Prometheus, Grafana Logs can systematically guarantee logs have consistent metadata with metrics. Grafana Logs lets users send logs in any format, from any source so it’s easy to add to existing infrastructure and get up and running quickly. Leverage a wide array of clients for shipping logs like…N/A
LogDNA
Score 7.9 out of 10
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LogDNA headquartered in Mountain View offers their eponymous cloud log management or on-prem/self-hosted log management solution.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Grafana Loki
Chose Grafana Loki
Loki is an essential complement to Grafana and provides logging metrics for dashboards and other visual tools. Loki can handle the service logging, while other data source plugins can provide more specific quantifiable metrics to support the logging data. Different types of …
Chose Grafana Loki
First and foremost if Grafana Loki is based on CNCF open source projects so organizations can get freedom to choice to configure it at your own other main thing is Grafana Loki is totally free of cost and we can deploy it on our infrastructure. On compared with other managed …
Chose Grafana Loki
Grafana Loki was chosen because of its sharp pricing and AWS intergration, where others have a steeper price but easier adaptability
LogDNA
Chose LogDNA
I have not used any other software but I have gone through demos of others and LogDNA gave us everything we needed at a fair price and with a great UI on the back end. It was not even a question of which software to choose. They are a great team.
Chose LogDNA
LogDNA was already setup when I started and it is offered through Heroku so that's why it was chosen. It's also cheaper I believe. Compared to Logentries, it does the same thing.
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User Ratings
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Usability
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
AWS integrations are easy, metrics are easily accesable Long term log insights need to be thought out and set up carefully
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LogDNA is great for all your apps to log activity. Not much more to say about it. It does what it sets out to do. Everyone in our company uses our app so it's nice when someone is having an issue and we need to dig deeper into what they were doing and LogDNA helps in those scenarios.
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Pros
  • Integration with AWS
  • Notifications land where they should
  • Broad integration options
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  • Very easy to search
  • The UI is great and user friendly
  • Team is very helpful and nice
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Cons
  • Offer log suggestions.
  • Offer basic query syntax check.
  • Offer data range controls.
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  • The colors are ugly, both the dark and light theme. Needs better contrast and color combinations. It's also weird that dark mode has white dropdown menus on the filters.
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Usability
I think it is very developer minded and has a very high learning curve
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It's really easy to use and powerful. But at a few times, the UI may feel sluggish, which is a bit expected, since it's displaying live stream of heavy data.
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Support Rating
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It is very very good. They are responsive and very helpful. They also take the time to walk you through the issues you are having. But honestly, it is so straightforward that you rarely need to get support from their team. They are very helpful when you do need their support though.
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Alternatives Considered
Loki is an essential complement to Grafana and provides logging metrics for dashboards and other visual tools. Loki can handle the service logging, while other data source plugins can provide more specific quantifiable metrics to support the logging data. Different types of metrics make a robust data dashboard.
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I have not used any other software but I have gone through demos of others and LogDNA gave us everything we needed at a fair price and with a great UI on the back end. It was not even a question of which software to choose. They are a great team.
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Return on Investment
  • Enable engineers to access logs quickly to distribute the workload.
  • Provide a possible standard for log access between multiple services.
  • Provide data metrics for customer use.
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  • LogDNA is 30% cheaper than our previous solution
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