Grafana Loki vs. LogDNA

In our application there are many points from where logs are coming so in order to go to each and every application and check logs its very overhead so we are using Grafana Loki for the logs gathering and monitoring.

Incentivized

Anytime we need to make any kind of log on any platform that we use, LogDNA is well suited. It is primarily used for logging errors on our server but also used for checking issues within our iOS apps when we need to identify a critical issue that is occurring. The search feature is very very good!

Incentivized

• Access to many open-source dashboards, access to add many data-sources to gather and visualize data from.
• Grafana Loki does well gathering of logs from various data-sources, we can also filter the logs based on our needs.
• One stop solution for all the logs and monitoring.

Incentivized

• The UI is simple to use and hasn't ever been confusing for anyone to use on our team.
• Backups are great since we do occasionally need to access logs from the past and it has helped us solve some problems.
• Searching/filtering is great and I've always been able to get exactly what I need.

Incentivized

• We can modify the logs directly from UI of Grafana Loki
• Better and simplified options for logs filtering
• Easy usability with SMTP configuration and other system level configuration

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• There isn't really much I would change

Incentivized

It is very very good. They are responsive and very helpful. They also take the time to walk you through the issues you are having. But honestly, it is so straightforward that you rarely need to get support from their team. They are very helpful when you do need their support though.

Incentivized

First and foremost if Grafana Loki is based on CNCF open source projects so organizations can get freedom to choice to configure it at your own other main thing is Grafana Loki is totally free of cost and we can deploy it on our infrastructure. On compared with other managed services like Datadog, New Relic it is very expensive and we also don't have much control on the tools we use.

Incentivized

LogDNA was already setup when I started and it is offered through Heroku so that's why it was chosen. It's also cheaper I believe. Compared to Logentries, it does the same thing.

Incentivized

• Only indexes the metadata
• Have to manage it by ourselves compare to other available managed monitoring and log observability solutions
• Dedicated person or team of SRE to manage the monitoring and observability solutions

Incentivized

• It has helped a lot when trying to debug issues with customers or internal employees. It's a positive overall because it has saved us a lot of time debugging issues.

Incentivized