Grafana Managed Loki Letting You Down?
LogQL Headaches, Clunky UI, Cardinality Nightmares
Complicated
"LogQL is too basic.. No free text search, no JSON support, lacks powerful syntax. Not at all intuitive"
— Senior SRE
"We ran the same query twice and got different log counts."
— SRE Manager
"Why am I downloading logs and processing them in snowflake and duckdb in 2025. Loki query limits are just absurd"
— Platform Engineer
Slow
"A query without the right label selector is painfully slow."
— DevOps Team Lead
"We had to drop valuable labels to keep the system running. Cardinality limits are slowing our investigations"
— Platform Architect
"Loki has a lot of query timeouts. We saw performance and reliability issues as log volume increased"
— Senior SRE
Expensive
"Loki pricing is only cheap if you spend time optimizing and tuning it"
— VP of Engineering
"Our Grafana Cloud bill is a black box. The costs for active series are impossible to predict."
— Engineering Manager
"Loki's retention is pretty expensive. We keep the long-term logs somewhere else for security, compliance, and debugging. But, it's a pain to query both systems at once."
— Senior SRE
Sound familiar? You're not alone. Teams are moving to modern logging solutions with superior architectures that solve these exact pain points.
Fantastic Logging Experience at 3x Cheaper
Blazing-fast, OpenSearch UI, AI-powered
Built on a modern, serverless, columnar architecture, Oodle decouples storage from compute to handle high cardinality, prevent data loss, and deliver instant query results without the 'cardinality tax' or operational overhead.
Simple
- Powerful UI
- Truly managed. No tuning needed
- Minimal learning curve with familiar Lucene query language
Fast
- Blazing-fast queries
- Serverless architecture eliminates bottlenecks
- Debug incidents faster with AI-powered root cause insights
Zero Overhead
- 99.9% available
- No tuning ingesters, queriers, compactors, etc
- Zero operational overhead
Cost-effective
- Predictable pricing
- No infrastructure costs
- Save on engineering time
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Oodle AI vs. Grafana Cloud Loki: Feature Deep Dive
| Feature Dimension | Oodle AI | Grafana Cloud Loki | Oodle Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost Model | Simple & Predictable | Complex: Ingest + Storage + Query Scan + Active Series + Per-User Costs. | Oodle is 3x cheaper. |
| Query Language | Lucene-like | LogQL | Oodle's UI handles most queries, making it accessible to everyone. |
| Interactive Exploration | ✅ UI Click-Based Filtering | 🟠 Query-Based Primary | Intuitive exploration for the whole team, not just LogQL experts. |
| High-Cardinality Handling | ✅ Built-in & Performant | ❌ Severe Performance/Cost Penalty | Oodle is designed for high-cardinality data. Loki penalizes it heavily. |
| Automated Insights | ✅ Built-in Anomaly Detection | 🟠 Manual Setup or Higher Tiers | Proactive anomaly detection out-of-the-box with Oodle. |
| Global View (Cross-Cluster/Project) | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Unified Observability | ✅ Logs & Metrics Interleaved | 🟠 Separate but Linkable | AI powered root cause insights. |
| Log Ingestion | ✅ | ✅ | Oodle supports open standards (Fluentd, Vector, OTel) for easy integration. See docs |
| Alerting on Logs and Metrics | ✅ | ✅ | Oodle alerts are enriched with deep context for faster resolution. |
| Configurable Log Retention | ✅ | ✅ | Oodle offers affordable retention up to 2 years without performance tiers. |
| Visualization & Dashboards | ✅ | ✅ | |
| JSON Querying | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Saved Queries | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Notifiers | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Alerts as Code | ✅ | ✅ |
Simple, Predictable Pricing
Oodle's transparent model typically saves teams 3x compared to the complex billing of Grafana Cloud.
| Component | Oodle AI | Grafana Cloud Loki |
|---|---|---|
| Ingestion | $0.25 / GB / month | Starts at $0.50 / GB / month |
| Retention | 50% cheaper | Additional cost per GB/month |
| Log-based Metrics | $0.06/metric/month | $0.30/metric/month |
| Users | Included | $8 - $47 per user |
| Queries | Included* | Included |
| Dashboards | Included* | Included |
| Alerting | Included* | Included |
*Generous tiers with soft limits.
Frequently Asked Questions
Let's address common questions Grafana users have when considering Oodle AI:
We're already using the Grafana stack (Prometheus, etc.). Isn't it better to stick with Loki?
Oodle complements your stack by replacing the painful part: the logging. By offloading logs to Oodle, you get a vastly superior exploration experience, faster performance, and lower costs, while still using Grafana for what it does best: Metrics.
We don't want another steep learning curve. Our team already knows LogQL.
That's the beauty of Oodle—it empowers everyone, LogQL experts as well as new engineers. OpenSearch is a defacto standard for logging and more well-known in the dev community. Oodle's UI makes it easy to explore logs using the intuitive UI. This democratizes log access and dramatically reduces the mean time to resolution (MTTR) for incidents.
How does Oodle handle high cardinality so much better than Loki?
This is core to our architecture. Loki's design ties performance and cost directly to label cardinality. Oodle uses a fundamentally different columnar architecture that is purpose-built for high-cardinality data, allowing you to query on any field (user_id, trace_id) without performance cliffs or runaway costs.
Is Oodle as reliable as Grafana Cloud? We've heard of Loki dropping logs.
More so. Oodle's serverless, columnar architecture is specifically designed to overcome Loki's core reliability bottlenecks.
No Data Loss: We don't have arbitrary log size limits like Loki's 128KB cap, preventing silent data loss. Our elastic ingestion handles traffic spikes gracefully.
Consistent Results: By separating storage and compute, we eliminate the 'ingester' state issues that can cause inconsistent query results in Loki.
Won't switching disrupt our operations?
Oodle is designed for zero-disruption migrations. You can dual-feed logs to both Oodle and Loki during transition using a tool like Vector. This allows you to validate, build new dashboards, and train your team without any downtime. Our customers are often fully migrated in a matter of hours.
'Switching to Oodle has been remarkable - dashboards load much faster. It took less than 6 hours to achieve 4x cost reduction.' — CureFit, Healthcare Unicorn
What about our compliance and audit requirements?
Oodle meets enterprise compliance needs with comprehensive audit logs, fine-grained RBAC, configurable retention, and data encryption. Oodle is SOC 2, ISO, and GDPR certified, and trusted by companies in regulated industries. Visit our Trust Center for more details.
Get Started with Oodle AI in Minutes
Simple OpenSearch UI. Faster queries. No lock-in.
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Configure Ingestion
Use an agent (Fluentd, Vector, Fluentbit, OTel) or stream via Kinesis Firehose.
See Docs3
Explore & Analyze
Logs are ready for intuitive exploration and insights.
We also provide white-glove support for enterprise customers.
