Loggly vs OpenObserve
Loggly and OpenObserve are both log management software. Loggly is a commercial product from SolarWinds. OpenObserve is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 23k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Loggly when
- You already use SolarWinds products and want hosted log search that fits with them.
- Pick OpenObserve when
- You want a cheaper self-hosted alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk or Datadog for logs and traces.
Side by side
A hosted log aggregation and search service with dashboards and alerts, owned by SolarWinds.
An observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, real user monitoring and session replay, storing data on object storage in a single binary.
The product has seen little visible development in recent years, and newer services offer more for the price.
AGPL license, and SSO and some enterprise features require a paid license.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
Rust, TypeScript and Vue
Closed source, sold by SolarWinds
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
13 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
23k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 3 years ago, latest release v1.1.2.
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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.