Elastic vs Grafana Loki

Is Grafana Loki a good alternative to Elastic? Here’s what you need to know.

Grafana Loki

Free

Log aggregation system by Grafana Labs. Like Prometheus for logs.

Loki is a horizontally scalable, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It indexes only metadata (labels), making it cost-effective and fast. Pairs perfectly with Grafana for querying and visualizing logs.

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Why switch from Elastic?

Indie pricing — no enterprise markup or per-seat fees
Direct maker support — talk to the person who built it
Transparent & open — many indie tools are open-source
No vendor lock-in — own your data, export anytime

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