Every free logging tier that clears our bar in 2026: 8 offers meet the criteria and 5 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.
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 2026-10-25, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
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
Acquired by Cloudflare. Up to 1B events/month, 7-day retention, unlimited seats and environments. Includes tracing, log management, error tracking, metrics
Always Free: 50 GiB log data/month per project with default retention. Part of Google Cloud Operations suite
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
Self-hosted Enterprise free up to 50 GB/day ingestion; open-source self-hosted free with no usage limits
Grafana Cloud Logs offers a free tier with up to 50GB of logs. Loki is also available as a self-managed, open source option. 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.
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.
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 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
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 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
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 ↓
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 2026-11-10, we could read no amount, tier or rate on the page, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
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 ↗
| Vendor | Free Tier | Key Limits | Durability | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 · 2026-10-25 |
2026-10-25 / 2026-09-02 |
| 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 | 2026-11-11 |
| Baselime | Free | Acquired by Cloudflare. Up to 1B events/month, 7-day retention, unlimited seats and environments. Includes tracing, log ... | stable | 2026-11-07 |
| Google Cloud Logging | Always Free | Always Free: 50 GiB log data/month per project with default retention. Part of Google Cloud Operations suite. Google Cloud's Free Tier requires a billing account. (From https://docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features, read 2026-10-07.) Usage beyond the Free Tier's monthly limits is billed at standard rates. (From https://docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features, read 2026-10-07.) | stable | 2026-10-25 |
| Better Stack Logs | Free | ClickHouse-based SQL-compatible log management (formerly Logtail) — Free for personal projects $0 per month Start for fr... | stable | 2026-11-07 |
| openobserve.ai | Free | Self-hosted Enterprise free up to 50 GB/day ingestion; open-source self-hosted free with no usage limits | — | 2026-10-24 |
| 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 · 2026-10-31 | stable | 2026-10-31 |
| Smart Grow Logs | Free | Centralized log management platform with end-to-end encryption, real-time alerts, and multi-platform SDKs. Free tier inc... | stable | 2026-10-29 |
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 8 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.
8 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 6 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 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, where the listing is gated, or where a narrowing in our records cites no source or no archived copy of the vendor's page has confirmed it. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.