Logflare

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Free plan

Free plan

12.96M events/month, 3-day retention

Open source

Yes (Apache-2.0)

Self-hosted

Yes

Launched

2019

Status

Active

Website

logflare.app

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

Log management checklist

6 of 10 confirmed in Logflare's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Logs.

• + Full-text search Yes
• + Structured log parsing Yes
• ? OTLP logs ingest Not confirmed
• + Log alerts Yes
• + Live tail Yes
• + Metrics from logs Yes
• ? Archive or tiered retention Not confirmed
• ? Dashboards Not confirmed
• + Query language Yes
• ? Access control Not confirmed

OpenTelemetry page shows OTLP trace export only; dashboards pointed to Google Data Studio on BigQuery

Checked against: github.com, docs.logflare.app, docs.logflare.app (2), docs.logflare.app (3), docs.logflare.app (4)

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