Dozzle vs Sumo Logic
Dozzle and Sumo Logic are both log management software. Dozzle is open source under MIT, with 15k GitHub stars. Sumo Logic is a commercial product from Sumo Logic.
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 Sumo Logic when
- A mid-size or large company wants hosted log analytics and security monitoring without operating Splunk or Elasticsearch itself.
Side by side
A lightweight web UI that streams live logs from Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes containers, with search and multi-host support.
A cloud log management and analytics service with metrics, dashboards and a SIEM product for security monitoring.
It does not store logs, so history is limited to what Docker keeps.
Costs depend on ingest and scan volume and need watching, and its query language is its own.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
Go, Vue and TypeScript
Not published
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Sumo Logic
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
219 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.