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Grafana Loki vs. OpenSearch

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
OpenSearch
Score 8.2 out of 10
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OpenSearch is an open-source software suite for search, analytics, and observability applications licensed under Apache 2.0. Powered by Apache Lucene and driven by the OpenSearch Project community, OpenSearch offers a vendor-agnostic toolset that can be used to build applications, or as an end-to-end solution, or connected with preferred open-source tools or partner projects.N/A
Pricing
Grafana LokiOpenSearch
Editions & Modules
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Pricing Offerings
Grafana LokiOpenSearch
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Grafana LokiOpenSearch
Considered Both Products
Grafana Loki
Joshua Li | TrustRadius Reviewer
Joshua Li
System Integration And Test Engineer
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 …
Aman Makwana | TrustRadius Reviewer
Aman Makwana
DevOps Engineer
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 …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Grafana Loki
Grafana Loki was chosen because of its sharp pricing and AWS intergration, where others have a steeper price but easier adaptability
OpenSearch
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose OpenSearch
Well as I said, Elastic is behind paywall now and managing OpenSearch through AWS is so seamless that we just love it. It gets updates faster we don't have to manage separate infra and many other settings to work with elastic search and some of the tools that it provides are …
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User Ratings
Grafana LokiOpenSearch
Likelihood to Recommend
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Likelihood to Renew
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Usability
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User Testimonials
Grafana LokiOpenSearch
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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OpenSearch Service presents a cost-effective pricing model, allowing users to pay solely for their usage without being burdened by minimum fees or upfront commitments. Its seamless integration with various AWS services enhances its adaptability for a wide range of data analysis requirements and also I love using it isn't it enough.
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Pros
  • Integration with AWS
  • Notifications land where they should
  • Broad integration options
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  • Gives us millisecond response times
  • Mainly open-source
  • Integration Seamlessly with AWS
  • Has a very big community so problems are fixes sooner then later
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Cons
  • Offer log suggestions.
  • Offer basic query syntax check.
  • Offer data range controls.
Joshua Li | TrustRadius Reviewer
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  • Needs more descriptive documentation
  • The UI feels a bit old
  • Some functionality still doesn't work correctly
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Usability
I think it is very developer minded and has a very high learning curve
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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.
Joshua Li | TrustRadius Reviewer
Joshua Li
System Integration And Test Engineer
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Well as I said, Elastic is behind paywall now and managing OpenSearch through AWS is so seamless that we just love it. It gets updates faster we don't have to manage separate infra and many other settings to work with elastic search and some of the tools that it provides are better then them.
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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.
Joshua Li | TrustRadius Reviewer
Joshua Li
System Integration And Test Engineer
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  • Well we had 200 ms response times which decreased to 100ms while using OpenSearch
  • Easy to use security plugins we dont need external IAM
  • Super Easy Integration with many AWS Services such as kinsesi data stream and dynamoDB
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