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Grafana Loki
Horizontally scalable, highly available log aggregation system
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Scalability
very high
Performance
high
Learning Curve
moderate
Maturity
stable
Languages: Go
Architecture: distributed
When to Use
- +Prometheus users
- +Cost-conscious
- +Kubernetes native
When Not to Use
- -Full-text search critical
- -Complex queries needed
Strengths
- Cost effective
- Prometheus-like
- Label-based
- Grafana native
Weaknesses
- Limited search vs ES
- Learning curve
Operations
Maintenance
medium
Monitoring
medium
Backup/Recovery
moderate
Hosting: self-hosted, cloud
Quick Facts
- Category
- Logging
- License
- open source
- Pricing
- freemium (free tier)
- Community
- large
- Docs Quality
- excellent
- Trend
- rapidly growing
- Vendor Lock-in
- low
- Data Portability
- easy
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
smallmediumlargeenterprise
Use Cases
- Log aggregation
- Kubernetes logging
- Metrics correlation
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