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Loggly vs Splunk: What are the differences?
Developers describe Loggly as "Log Management, Simplified in the Cloud". The world's most popular cloud-based log management service delivers application intelligence. On the other hand, Splunk is detailed as "Search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data". Splunk Inc. provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use Splunk to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.
Loggly and Splunk can be primarily classified as "Log Management" tools.
Instacart, Heroku, and Accenture are some of the popular companies that use Loggly, whereas Splunk is used by Starbucks, Intuit, and Razorpay. Loggly has a broader approval, being mentioned in 95 company stacks & 15 developers stacks; compared to Splunk, which is listed in 31 company stacks and 29 developer stacks.
Pros of Loggly
- Centralized log management37
- Easy to setup25
- Great filtering21
- Live logging16
- Json log support15
- Log Management10
- Alerting10
- Great Dashboards7
- Love the product7
- Heroku Add-on4
- Easy to setup and use2
- Easy setup2
- No alerts in free plan2
- Great UI2
- Good parsing2
- Powerful2
- Fast search2
- Backup to S32
Pros of Splunk
- Ability to style search results into reports2
- Alert system based on custom query results2
- API for searching logs, running reports2
- Query engine supports joining, aggregation, stats, etc2
- Query any log as key-value pairs1
- Splunk language supports string, date manip, math, etc1
- Granular scheduling and time window support1
- Custom log parsing as well as automatic parsing1
- Dashboarding on any log contents1
- Rich GUI for searching live logs1
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Cons of Loggly
- Pricey after free plan3
Cons of Splunk
- Splunk query language rich so lots to learn1