Dozzle vs Loki
Dozzle and Loki are both log management software. Dozzle is open source under MIT, with 15k GitHub stars. Loki is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 29k GitHub stars.
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 Loki when
- You already use Prometheus and Grafana and want low-cost centralised logs.
Side by side
A lightweight web UI that streams live logs from Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes containers, with search and multi-host support.
A log aggregation system that indexes only labels and stores log content cheaply in object storage, queried from Grafana with LogQL.
It does not store logs, so history is limited to what Docker keeps.
Full-text search over unindexed content is slow at scale, and running it distributed is complex.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Go, Vue and TypeScript
Go
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
15k GitHub stars
29k GitHub stars
Established: started 8 years ago, latest release v11.4.0.
Established: started 8 years ago, latest release v3.7.9.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.