Every free logging tier that clears our bar in 2026: 11 offers meet the criteria and 2 offers are demoted with a named reason. Verified pricing, recorded changes, and a published ranking method.

Best Free Logging Tools

Every free logging tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-09-11.

11 offers meet our criteria for this category and none is distinguishable from the others under any signal we record. 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 554 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
Free

Log Management service powered by Manage Engine. Free Plan offers 50 GB storage with 15 days Storage Retention and 7 days search.

2
Free

Free up to 100k log lines/day with 24 hours retention

3
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

4
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.

5
Grafana Loki stable
Free OSS

Free OSS (AGPLv3). Horizontally-scalable log aggregation system by Grafana Labs. Label-based indexing (like Prometheus for logs), integrates with Grafana dashboards Best for open source projects.

6
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.

7
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 unknownlimits reduced: The free tier now offers 50 GB/day instead of 200 GB/month. Source ↗
8
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 unknownpricing 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 ↗
9
Always Free

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

10
Free

Audit trail management system. Free 1,000 user activity logs per month, 1-month retention, for up to 5 projects.

11
Free

ClickHouse-based SQL-compatible log management (formerly Logtail). Free plan: 3 GB/month retained for 3 days, unlimited team members. Full platform access requires a paid Responder license (Nano from $25/mo billed annually, includes 40 GB logs/traces/metrics with 30-day retention). See [betterstack.com/logs/pricing](https://betterstack.com/logs/pricing). 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.

−3
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).

  • −3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal on 2026-08-28: Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-03). Highlight.io's own page now redirects to launchdarkly.com. Retracted 2026-09-03: no free tier was removed. Highlight.io was acquired by LaunchDarkly, and LaunchDarkly's free Developer plan carries 5,000 session replays and 5,000 errors a month at $0/month. This row was our error. Source: https://www.highlight.io/pricing
−5
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 — 2026-04-13: No free tier, pay-as-you-go only ($0.92/GB/day) Source ↗

  • −3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal on 2026-04-13: No free tier, pay-as-you-go only ($0.92/GB/day) Source: https://logz.io/pricing/
  • −2 time_limited_offer Tier "Trial" is a trial that expires, not an ongoing free tier.
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
2026-09-11
query_key
best-of:Logging
seed
f151ce7cfdfbde153e97363720f1c4a38083ee8f0a1e5f08d9f7a4954f6064e2
tie_count
11

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Stability Verified
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... stable 2026-08-05
bugfender.com Free Free up to 100k log lines/day with 24 hours retention 2026-08-07
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 2026-08-28
Baselime Free Acquired by Cloudflare. Up to 1B events/month, 7-day retention, unlimited seats and environments. Includes tracing, log ... 2026-07-24
Grafana Loki Free OSS Free OSS (AGPLv3). Horizontally-scalable log aggregation system by Grafana Labs. Label-based indexing (like Prometheus f... stable 2026-07-27
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
openobserve.ai Free Self-hosted Enterprise free up to 50 GB/day ingestion; open-source self-hosted free with no usage limits caution
discovered 2026-08-28 reduced
2026-09-02
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. caution
discovered 2026-09-01 restructured
2026-08-07
Google Cloud Logging Always Free Always Free: 50 GiB log data/month per project with default retention. Part of Google Cloud Operations suite stable 2026-09-03
logzab.com Free Audit trail management system. Free 1,000 user activity logs per month, 1-month retention, for up to 5 projects. 2026-08-06
Better Stack Logs Free ClickHouse-based SQL-compatible log management (formerly Logtail). Free plan: 3 GB/month retained for 3 days, unlimited ... stable 2026-08-25

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