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Loggly
Cloud-Based Log Management and Analytics
As of 30 August 2026, Loggly is free to use. Loggly is a cloud-based log management and analytics platform that helps manage and analyze logs. Softwr lists it under Logging. Loggly is launched in 2009, available on Web, API.
Overview
What Loggly does
Loggly is a cloud-based log management and analytics platform that helps manage and analyze logs.
What people use it for
- Cloud-hosted log aggregation for small and mid-sized engineering teams
- Alerting on log patterns via email, webhook, PagerDuty or Slack
- Log analysis alongside SolarWinds infrastructure and application monitoring
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Loggly.
- The free Lite plan caps ingest at 200 MB per day with 7 day retention
- API access and archiving to Amazon S3 start on the Pro plan at $159 per month billed annually
- Federated identity management is an Enterprise feature, starting at $279 per month billed annually
- The Standard plan at $79 per month is limited to 1 GB per day and 3 source groups
- Maximum retention is 90 days and only on Enterprise; Standard is fixed at 15 days
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of Loggly
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- LogglyvsDatadog Logs
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- LogglyvsNew Relic
New Relic: Observability made simple
- LogglyvsCoralogix
Coralogix: Continuous Log Insights and Visibility
Pricing
What Loggly costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- Log aggregation
- Real-time search
- Custom dashboards
Capabilities
Features
Log aggregation
Real-time search
Custom dashboards
Alert management
API
Integration with API
Webhooks
Integration with Webhooks
REST
Integration with REST
Web support
Available on web
Api support
Available on api
Behind it
Who makes Loggly
- Company
- Loggly
- Based in
- United States
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Where to go from Loggly
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Best Logging software for
Compare Loggly with
- Datadog Logs
- New Relic
- Coralogix
- Elastic Stack
- Sumo Logic
- Dynatrace Logs
- Splunk Cloud
- FireHydrant
- Rootly
- Axiom
- Uptime.com
- Vector
- Checkly
- CloudWatch
- Airbrake
- ELK Stack
- Dynatrace
- Filebeat
Other Logging software
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Free plan9 researched notesActive reliability platform combining uptime monitoring, API testing, and incident response
Free plan11 researched notes
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