Facts

Traditional logging vendors

• Most enterprise logging solutions are expensive and require constant attention and monitoring to scale up.
• Limited or inflexible admin capabilities for setting proper access controls
• Expensive to store logs
• Doesn’t correlate well with Prometheus metrics

Grafana Enterprise Logs

• Store petabytes of log data with enterprise-grade administration, collaboration features, security, and support.
• Advanced admin capabilities to easily grant individuals access to the resources they should have access to
• Uses object storage for logs, making it very cost-effective
• Great fit with Kubernetes, Prometheus, and visualization within Grafana

Architected for scale

Grafana Enterprise Logs is designed to store petabytes of log data and handle spikes in query and ingestion load at a fraction of the cost compared to other logging solutions.

• Centralized, horizontally scalable, replicated architecture so you can easily manage and scale your logging
• Only object storage needed (S3/S3-compatible, GCS, Azure, etc.)

Secure access with advanced admin controls

Grafana Enterprise Logs includes the security features enterprises need to scale logs for large, distributed teams. Robust data-access policies enable administrators to secure and govern data in order to control where their logs live and who gets to use them.

• Admins can use the built-in interface or a simple API to create access policies and generate tokens that grant or restrict individual access to resources.
• Access policies integrate with your existing authentication provider, making it simple to manage a large number of users.

Correlate metrics and logs

Traditional solutions were created before the rise of Prometheus as the de facto standard for monitoring Kubernetes and cloud native services. As the Prometheus query language and data model are very different from the traditional logging vendors’ query languages, this makes correlating metrics and logs harder. Grafana Enterprise Logs utilizes the same label model as Prometheus, allowing for effortless switching between metrics and logs and making it a great fit with Kubernetes, Prometheus, and visualization within Grafana.

• Prometheus integration makes it simple to jump between metrics and logs, helping you get a global view of the data faster.
• LogQL, which is modeled after PromQL, allows you to query logs with the same syntax used for querying metrics.

Integrated with your tools

Grafana Enterprise Logs works alongside your technologies, making it easy to get started without having to rip out your existing logging tools. Visualize log data from your current logging tool (such as Splunk, Elastic, or other providers) alongside your Grafana Enterprise Logs data, allowing you to:

• Gradually transition off of your costly or legacy logging tools.
• Avoid vendor lock-in and give your teams the tools they actually want to use.

Support

With Grafana Enterprise Logs, your team gets support, training, and consulting provided by the Grafana Labs team.

• A dedicated support team will help with setup, ongoing questions, bugs, security updates, and more.
• The core maintainers of Grafana Loki are available to ensure you’re implementing best practices.