Hosted observability platform that grew out of managed ELK: log search and alerting on OpenSearch, plus metrics and traces. Priced per GB ingested.
Pricing and hosting
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Log management checklist
9 of 10 confirmed in Logz.io'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 Yes
- Dashboards Yes
- Query language Yes
- Access control Yes
OpenTelemetry logs sent via the vendor logzio exporter, not documented as OTLP ingest
Checked against: logz.io, docs.logz.io, docs.logz.io (2), docs.logz.io (3), docs.logz.io (4), docs.logz.io (5)
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