I have been looking around for a while for a cloud-based service which allows collecting logs and metrics and analysing them. I am particularly interested in a solution which can be deployed for free for smaller applications/amounts of data.

Here are some of the solutions I came across:

Loggly

loggly

Store and analyse logs and metrics
Free plan available: For 200MB/day, 7 day data retention
It looks to me like the Free plan does not allow using the Loggly API!

Splunk

splunk

One of the first and most popular solutions in the space
Store and analyse logs and metrics
Free version available; allows storing up to 500MB/day; I don't think there is any limitation on data retention
Note that free version requires to install the Splunk server on your own server

Sematext

sematext

Based on popular open source ELK stack
Free plan allows monitoring up to 5 hosts, but only comes with 30 min data retention

Logz.io

logz

Also based on ELK stack
Free plan allows 3GB upload per day; data retention limited to 3 days.

Overall, I am not too happy with these offerings. In particular, the short data retention periods seem to make some of these offerings too limited to be useful.

Maybe the best option here would be to install your own ELK stack or Graylog. Here are some guides for that:

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Free Cloud-based Log and Metrics Management SolutionsPublished onThu, 28 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Free Cloud-based Log and Metrics Management Solutions
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