Dozzle vs Loggly
Dozzle and Loggly are both log management software. Dozzle is open source under MIT, with 15k GitHub stars. Loggly is a commercial product from SolarWinds.
Which to pick
- Pick Dozzle when
- You run containers on a few hosts and want to watch logs in a browser without a logging stack.
- Pick Loggly when
- You already use SolarWinds products and want hosted log search that fits with them.
Side by side
A lightweight web UI that streams live logs from Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes containers, with search and multi-host support.
A hosted log aggregation and search service with dashboards and alerts, owned by SolarWinds.
It does not store logs, so history is limited to what Docker keeps.
The product has seen little visible development in recent years, and newer services offer more for the price.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
Go, Vue and TypeScript
Not published
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source, sold by SolarWinds
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
15k GitHub stars
13 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 8 years ago, latest release v11.4.0.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.