Observability

Logs, metrics, traces — monitoring and log management

Axiom

★ 19

Serverless log/analytics ingest with 1 TB/year free and unlimited querying — pay only for ingest over the free quota.

Bandwidth
1 TB/year ingest
Requests
30-day retention, unlimited queries, 1 user
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Better Stack

★ 4

Structured logging (Logtail) + uptime monitoring in one free tier — 1 GB/month logs and 10 monitors with 14-day retention.

Bandwidth
1 GB/month logs
Requests
10 uptime monitors, 14-day log retention
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$25/mo
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Grafana Cloud

★ 20

Full-stack observability (metrics + logs + traces) with a generous forever-free tier and usage-based pricing after.

Bandwidth
50 GB logs + 50 GB traces/month
Requests
10k series, 14-day retention, 3 users
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HyperDX

★ 8

Unified logs + traces + metrics with a 30 GB/month free tier and 30-day retention; open-source self-host option.

Bandwidth
30 GB/month ingest
Requests
30-day retention, 1 user
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$50/mo
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