Compare 12 free logging tools, free tiers, and developer deals. Verified pricing for Highlight.io, Baselime, Grafana Loki, bugfender.com, log.dog and more.
What this name holds: Log shipping, retention and search, from tools that sell that alone.
3 other names here answer “how do I find out it is broken”, and each holds a different list: Error Tracking (15), Monitoring (59), Status Pages (6).
We track 12 logging services with a free tier we hold as current and 2 without. This category has seen some movement — 7 pricing changes recorded across vendors.
| Vendor | Tier | Description | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Logz.io | 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 | 2026-07-26 |
| Highlight.io | 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). | 2026-09-02 |
| Baselime | Free | Acquired by Cloudflare. Up to 1B events/month, 7-day retention, unlimited seats and environments. Includes tracing, log management, error tracking, metrics | 2026-07-24 |
| Grafana Loki | Free OSS | Free OSS (AGPLv3). Horizontally-scalable log aggregation system by Grafana Labs. Label-based indexing (like Prometheus for logs), integrates with Grafana dashboards | 2026-07-27 |
| 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-time and allows to intercept them. Free for up to 100MB of logs every month | 2026-08-28 |
| logflare.app | Free | Superseded: As of 2026-09-01, logflare.app reads: Logflare offers Metered and Unlimited plans.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 ↓ | 2026-08-07 |
| Better Stack Logs | 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). | 2026-08-25 |
| 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 |
| ManageEngine Log360 Cloud | Free | Log Management service powered by Manage Engine. Free Plan offers 50 GB storage with 15 days Storage Retention and 7 days search. | 2026-08-05 |
| openobserve.ai | Free | Self-hosted Enterprise free up to 50 GB/day ingestion; open-source self-hosted free with no usage limits | 2026-09-02 |
| Smart Grow Logs | 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. | 2026-09-10 |
| Ninja Outreach | Retired | There is no free tier: ninjaoutreach.com no longer serves the product. Checked 2026-09-06, the domain resolves to Cloudflare and returned 522 on three consecutive requests, so the origin is unreachable; the Internet Archive's most recent capture of the site is 2025-09-10. The cited source, userlike.com/en/blog/startup-deals, now redirects to connect.lime-technologies.com/en/blog/ after Userlike's rebrand to Lime Technologies, and the destination does not name Ninja Outreach. The former offer was a 20% lifetime discount on the Blogger plan, which was a discount and not a free tier. | 2026-08-14 |
| Google Cloud Logging | Always Free | Always Free: 50 GiB log data/month per project with default retention. Part of Google Cloud Operations suite | 2026-09-03 |
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