Logz.io
Application performance monitoring (APM) tools
Cloud infrastructure monitoring software
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What is Logz.io
Logz.io is a SaaS observability platform that centralizes log management, infrastructure monitoring, and application performance monitoring for cloud-native environments. It is used by DevOps, SRE, and engineering teams to collect telemetry, troubleshoot incidents, and monitor service health across distributed systems. The platform is built around open-source technologies (notably Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kibana, and Jaeger) with managed hosting, integrations, and operational tooling. It also offers security-focused analytics capabilities that can support SIEM-style investigations using log data.
Unified logs, metrics, traces
The product supports multiple telemetry types in one platform, which helps teams correlate events across logs, infrastructure metrics, and distributed traces during incident response. This reduces the need to pivot between separate tools for root-cause analysis. It fits common SRE/DevOps workflows where troubleshooting starts with logs and expands to traces and service-level signals.
Open-source based architecture
Logz.io is built on widely adopted open-source components, which can make data formats, query concepts, and dashboards more familiar to teams with prior experience. This approach can also reduce perceived vendor lock-in compared with fully proprietary data stores and query languages. It is well-suited to organizations that prefer open ecosystems and broad integration options.
Cloud-native integrations and ingestion
The platform provides integrations and agents/collectors to ingest telemetry from common cloud services, container platforms, and CI/CD environments. This supports faster onboarding for teams running Kubernetes and microservices architectures. Managed operation of the underlying search and observability stack offloads cluster maintenance work from internal teams.
Cost sensitivity with high volume
As with many log-centric observability platforms, pricing and operational efficiency can become challenging when log volume and retention requirements grow. Teams may need to invest in filtering, sampling, and tiered retention strategies to control spend. This can add ongoing governance work for engineering and security stakeholders.
SIEM depth may vary
While the platform can support security investigations using log analytics, it may not provide the same breadth of out-of-the-box security content as dedicated SIEM products (for example, extensive detection rule libraries and compliance-focused workflows). Security teams may need to build and tune detections, dashboards, and alerting logic. Organizations with mature SOC processes may require additional tooling or integrations for case management and response automation.
Search and schema tuning required
Log analytics quality depends on consistent parsing, field extraction, and index/schema design, which can require upfront and ongoing tuning. Query performance and dashboard usability can degrade if ingestion pipelines are not well governed. Teams often need clear standards for log structure and enrichment to get reliable results across services.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go (consumption-based)
Units & official unit prices (from Logz.io official pricing pages/docs):
- Log Management: $0.92 per ingested GB, per day (displayed with 7 days retention). Additional retention pricing: Hot retention extension – $0.03 per additional day; Warm retention extension – $0.015 per additional day; Cold retention – $0.001 per additional day.
- Infrastructure Monitoring (metrics): $0.40 per 1,000 time-series metrics, per day (18 months retention; 6 DPM per time series).
- Distributed Tracing: $0.16 per 1,000,000 spans, per day (10 days retention).
- Agentic Observability / AI Agents: $10 per 1M tokens or per AI Agent workflow/invocation (agent pricing may vary by agent/usage).
Other official consumption/On‑demand details:
- Billed annually (or monthly at 1.2x the annual rate). On‑demand overage pricing is 1.4x the subscription/on‑plan cost for excess usage.
- The vendor documents an “Open 360” consumption breakdown in the docs (examples include an Open 360 logging ingestion base unit and a Cloud SIEM security addon priced per GB in examples).
Notes / supplementary official items:
- Cloud SIEM / Security addon example in docs: security addon example priced at $0.35 per GB/day (shown in the consumption model docs as an example).
- The pricing page includes guidance on capacity reallocation across products, multi-tiered storage, and data optimization features to reduce costs.
- Support packages (separate from core unit pricing) have minimum spends: Silver — minimum spend $5,000 annually (or $400/month); Gold/Trials — minimum spend $10,000 annually (or $800/month); Enterprise — contact Logz.io.
(Information extracted only from Logz.io official website: pricing page and docs.)
Seller details
Logz.io Ltd.
Boston, MA, USA
2014
Private
https://logz.io/
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