Grafana Loki vs. Sematext Cloud

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
Sematext Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Sematext Cloud is an observability solution for software-based companies that provides key insights into front-end and back-end performance. Sematext encompasses infrastructure, real user & synthetic monitoring, transaction tracing and log management. Sematext gives businesses full-stack visibility by exposing key performance issues through a single Cloud or On-Premise solution.
$0
per month 500 MB/day, 7 day retention.
Pricing
Grafana LokiSematext Cloud
Editions & Modules
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Logs
$0
per month 500 MB/day, 7 day retention.
Monitoring
$0
per month 5 hosts max, 30 minute retention.
Synthetics
$2
per month per HTTP monitor, 30 day retention.
Experience
$9
per month 25k views/month, 7 day retention.
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Grafana LokiSematext Cloud
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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Usability
7.0
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User Testimonials
Grafana LokiSematext Cloud
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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Pros
  • Integration with AWS
  • Notifications land where they should
  • Broad integration options
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Cons
  • Offer log suggestions.
  • Offer basic query syntax check.
  • Offer data range controls.
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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.
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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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ScreenShots

Sematext Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of Sematext ExperienceScreenshot of Sematext LogsScreenshot of Sematext MonitoringScreenshot of Sematext SyntheticsScreenshot of Correlate logs and metrics in split view