Best Log Management · FREE
Best free Log Management (2026)
6 log management that offer a genuine free plan, ranked by entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Cheapest: Better Stack at $0/mo.
- Qualifying: Better Stack, Grafana Cloud Logs, Loggly (SolarWinds), New Relic Logs, Papertrail, SigNoz Cloud.
- Data current through: 2026-11-01. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 4 of 6 rows below are marked.
Comparison
| # | Log Management | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Better Stack | $0/mo | Yes | No | Yes | Startups and SMBs wanting all-in-one observability + uptime monitoring at flat pricing | betterstack.com |
| 2 | Grafana Cloud Logs STALE · 2026-09-27 | $0/mo | Yes | — | Yes | Teams already using Grafana/Prometheus/Loki wanting a fully managed, no-ops cloud version | grafana.com |
| 3 | Loggly (SolarWinds) STALE · 2026-09-05 | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | Teams already in the SolarWinds ecosystem | loggly.com |
| 4 | New Relic Logs | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | — | Teams wanting a very generous free tier (100 GB/month) before committing | newrelic.com |
| 5 | Papertrail STALE · 2026-06-14 | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | Heroku-hosted apps needing instant, zero-config log aggregation | getapp.com |
| 6 | SigNoz Cloud STALE · 2026-09-02 | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | OpenTelemetry-first engineering teams wanting a single platform for logs, traces, and metrics | signoz.io |