Every free logging tier that clears our bar in 2026: 10 offers meet the criteria and 3 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 5 of them: on 3 the page we cite did not answer, and on 2 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.

Best Free Logging Tools

Every free logging tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-09-30.

10 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 4 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 2 a recorded narrowing, 2 a recorded widening, and we publish no durability signal for 2. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page. They are listed in an order that rotates daily. Here is how that order is derived. There is no top slot here to sell.
Why trust this data? Every free tier is verified against the vendor's pricing page with dates tracked. We monitor 476 pricing changes and flag vendors that have reduced or removed free tiers. Rankings start every offer at zero and can only demote. There is no signal a vendor can acquire, lobby for, or buy — there is nothing to add. A record reaches a function page when its category names the function or when it carries a subtype label that names the function. Adding a label to a record publishes it here; removing one withdraws it. No page holds a list of vendors. See all 14 logging offers →
1
log.dog stable
Free

LogDog is a remote debugging/logging SDK (iOS and Android) with a web ui. Captures all logs, requests and events in real-time and allows to intercept them. Free for up to 100MB of logs every month

2
Free

Self-hosted Enterprise free up to 50 GB/day ingestion; open-source self-hosted free with no usage limits Note — discovered 2026-08-28: The free tier now offers 50 GB/day instead of 200 GB/month. Source ↗

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: The free tier now offers 50 GB/day instead of 200 GB/month. Source ↗
3
Free

ClickHouse-based SQL-compatible log management (formerly Logtail) — Free for personal projects $0 per month Start for free 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page Slack & e-mail alerts 100,000 exceptions per month 5,000 session replays 3 GB logs retained for 3 days 3 GB traces retained for 3 days 30 GB metrics 3 GB web events retained for 3 days Best for personal projects.

4
Free OSS

Acquired by LaunchDarkly; highlight.io now redirects to launchdarkly.com. LaunchDarkly's free Developer plan carries 5,000 session replays and 5,000 errors a month. The open-source project remains self-hostable (repo active, last pushed 2026-08-20). The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-13, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

5
Always Free

Always Free: 50 GiB log data/month per project with default retention. Part of Google Cloud Operations suite

6
Free

Superseded: As of 2026-09-01, logflare.app reads: Logflare offers Metered and Unlimited plans. The Metered plan is $15 per million events. The Unlimited plan is $520 per month. Logs are stored in BigQuery for 7 days initially, with the option to bring your own BigQuery table for longer retention. We are not publishing our stored logflare.app terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-01, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ Note — discovered 2026-09-01: Logflare is now part of Supabase and the free tier details have changed. The pricing now shows metered and unlimited plans, with the metered plan costing $15 per million events and the unlimited plan at $520/month. There's also mention of using BigQuery for longer retention (7 days initially, then BYOB). Source ↗

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-01 · effective date unknown — pricing restructured: Logflare is now part of Supabase and the free tier details have changed. The pricing now shows metered and unlimited plans, with the metered plan costing $15 per million events and the unlimited plan at $520/month. There's also mention of using BigQuery for longer retention (7 days initially, then BYOB). Source ↗
7
Free

Centralized log management platform with end-to-end encryption, real-time alerts, and multi-platform SDKs. Free tier includes up to 3.000 logs per day.

8
Free

Log Management service powered by Manage Engine. Free Plan offers 50 GB storage with 15 days Storage Retention and 7 days search. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-14, we found the page did not mention this offer, which is not evidence it ended, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

9
Grafana Loki stable
Free OSS

Grafana Cloud Logs offers a free tier with up to 50GB of logs. Loki is also available as a self-managed, open source option. Best for open source projects. The page we cite for Grafana Loki states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our read of the vendor's page on 2026-08-28.

10
Baselime stable
Free

Acquired by Cloudflare. Up to 1B events/month, 7-day retention, unlimited seats and environments. Includes tracing, log management, error tracking, metrics Best for unlimited usage needs.

Demoted — and exactly why

These offers reach this page too and rank below the list above. Each one names the recorded fact behind it. A recorded limit reduction, pricing restructure or new restriction is shown on every surface where the offer appears, with its date and summary — but it does not move rank. We have change records for only 16% of vendors, and disproportionately for well-known ones, so ranking on them would demote the vendors we happen to watch most closely.

−1
Free

Free up to 100k log lines/day with 24 hours retention. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Audit trail management system. Free 1,000 user activity logs per month, 1-month retention, for up to 5 projects. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−2
Trial

ELK-based log management — 14-day free trial only. No permanent free tier. Consumption-based pricing starts at $0.92/ingested GB/day. Community plan removed Note — 2024-11-17: Logz.io dropped its free Community plan (Log Management 1 GB a day with 1-day retention) between 2024-10-11 and 2024-11-17. Its terms, revised 2025-01-15, delete an account when its 14-day trial lapses unless it moves to a paid plan. Source ↗

  • −2 time_limited_offer Tier "Trial" is a trial that expires, not an ongoing free tier.

Not on our ranked list

One of the 14 offers matching this query is not on our ranked list — 1 has ended. Here is how that order is derived.

Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-09-30
query_key
best-of:Logging
seed
80718415b798fe8fbf3efe923df845621ba9c139fa9da52fac42b39515491e30
tie_count
10

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Durability Read / catalogue date
log.dog Free LogDog is a remote debugging/logging SDK (iOS and Android) with a web ui. Captures all logs, requests and events in real... stable 2026-09-28
openobserve.ai Free Self-hosted Enterprise free up to 50 GB/day ingestion; open-source self-hosted free with no usage limits watch
discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown
2026-09-17
Better Stack Logs Free ClickHouse-based SQL-compatible log management (formerly Logtail) — Free for personal projects $0 per month Start for fr... improving
discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown
2026-09-22
Highlight.io Free OSS Acquired by LaunchDarkly; highlight.io now redirects to launchdarkly.com. LaunchDarkly's free Developer plan carries 5,0... not published
page states no amount · 2026-09-13
2026-09-13 / 2026-09-02
Google Cloud Logging Always Free Always Free: 50 GiB log data/month per project with default retention. Part of Google Cloud Operations suite stable 2026-09-20
logflare.app Free As of 2026-09-01, logflare.app reads: Logflare offers Metered and Unlimited plans. The Metered plan is $15 per million events… Our stored logflare.app terms are superseded and withheld. watch
discovered 2026-09-01 · effective date unknown
2026-09-13 / 2026-08-07
Smart Grow Logs Free Centralized log management platform with end-to-end encryption, real-time alerts, and multi-platform SDKs. Free tier inc... stable 2026-09-10
ManageEngine Log360 Cloud Free Log Management service powered by Manage Engine. Free Plan offers 50 GB storage with 15 days Storage Retention and 7 day... not published
change not established · 2026-09-14
2026-09-14 / 2026-08-05
Grafana Loki Free OSS Grafana Cloud Logs offers a free tier with up to 50GB of logs. Loki is also available as a self-managed, open source opt... not confirmed · page states a free price · 2026-09-17 improving
discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown
2026-09-17 / 2026-07-27
Baselime Free Acquired by Cloudflare. Up to 1B events/month, 7-day retention, unlimited seats and environments. Includes tracing, log ... stable 2026-07-24

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free logging tool in 2026?

We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 10 free logging offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

Which of these free logging tiers have held their terms?

10 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 4 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 2 a recorded narrowing, 2 a recorded widening, and we publish no durability signal for 2. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.

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