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Seq vs Grafana Loki: catalog facts
SeqGrafana Loki
Freemium

Proprietary software under the Datalust EULA; see the site for license options.

Free

Free and open source. Hosting, hardware and any external services are separate.

Self-hosted Self-hosted
  • Keeps log data on your own infrastructure
  • Logs, traces and metrics in one place
  • Integrates with Grafana log exploration
  • Supports centralized log storage
  • Proprietary, not open source
  • You run and maintain the server yourself
  • Requires log collectors and storage sized for retention needs.
Self-hosted Self-hosted
Closed source Open source
License: Proprietary License: AGPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 24, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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