Loggly vs Splunk Enterprise
Loggly and Splunk Enterprise are both log management software. Loggly is a commercial product from SolarWinds. Splunk Enterprise is a commercial product from Cisco.
Which to pick
- Pick Loggly when
- You already use SolarWinds products and want hosted log search that fits with them.
- Pick Splunk Enterprise when
- A large organisation needs one platform for security and operations data at high volume and has staff who can write SPL and run the deployment.
Side by side
A hosted log aggregation and search service with dashboards and alerts, owned by SolarWinds.
Indexes and searches machine data such as logs, metrics and events, with its own query language (SPL), dashboards, alerting and a security (SIEM) layer on top.
The product has seen little visible development in recent years, and newer services offer more for the price.
Licensing is priced on data volume or compute and gets expensive quickly, and running it on your own servers takes dedicated administrators.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by SolarWinds
Closed source, sold by Cisco
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
13 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
No Wikipedia article of its own
Other comparisons
More log management tools
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.