Trapped Between LogQL and a Broken Cluster?
Clunky UX, Slow Queries, Constant Babysitting
Complicated & Unreliable
"It's exhausting to query across log sources. You have to know the exact labels."
— Senior Developer
"LogQL is too basic. No free text search, no JSON support, lacks powerful syntax. Not at all intuitive"
— SRE Lead
"Loki isn't available when you need it most…. So many outages.."
— SRE Manager
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
Operational Overhead
"We have a dedicated Slack channel for our Loki cluster's problems. It's one of our most active channels."
— DevOps Lead
"Loki upgrades are a multi-day event involving careful planning, staging, and a lot of prayer. It's our most feared maintenance task."
— SRE
"We have dedicated engineers managing and tuning Loki."
— Multiple Eng. Leaders
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 the Cost of DIY
Fully Managed, Blazing-fast, OpenSearch UI, AI-powered
Oodle offers a managed platform with a superior serverless, columnar architecture that is fast, reliable, and dramatically simple to use - all for a predictable price that's often less than your total cost of self-hosting.
Simple
- Powerful UI
- Truly managed. No tuning needed
- Minimal learning curve with familiar Lucene query language
Fast
- Blazing-fast queries
- Built to handle high-cardinality data
- Debug faster with AI powered root cause insights
Reliable
- Fully managed
- Serverless design eliminates single points of failure
- Free your engineers from Loki onCall
Cost-effective
- 3x Cheaper than Managed Loki
- Predictable, all-inclusive pricing
- Affordable retention. No per-user pricing
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Oodle AI vs. Self-Hosted Loki: A Head-to-Head Comparison
| Feature | Oodle AI | Self-Hosted Grafana Loki | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| UI & User Experience | ✅ Intuitive OpenSearch UI | 🟠 Query-first Grafana UI | Oodle is accessible to everyone. Loki requires expert knowledge. |
| Query Language | Powerful Free-Text Search, Lucene | Required LogQL | Oodle empowers exploration. Loki demands query expertise. |
| Management & Operations | ✅ Fully Managed | ❌ Completely Manual (DIY) | Oodle eliminates all operational burden. |
| Total Cost of Ownership | Predictable SaaS Fee | High: Infrastructure + Engineering Salaries | Oodle is often cheaper when you factor in the hidden costs of DIY. |
| High-Cardinality Handling | ✅ Performant by Design | ❌ Major Performance Risk | Oodle's columnar architecture handles this natively. With Loki, it's a performance bomb you have to manage. |
| Data Consistency | ✅ Strong Consistency | 🟠 Eventual Consistency | Oodle provides reliable results. With Loki, you inherit its consistency issues. |
| Scaling & HA | ✅ Automated & Built-in | ❌ Manual & Complex | Oodle's serverless architecture scales transparently. |
| Expert Support | ✅ Included 24/7 | ❌ Community Forums | Get help from experts, not just community goodwill. |
Simple, Predictable Pricing
Comparing with Grafana Cloud Loki for reference.
| 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 |
| Dashboards | Included | Included |
| Queries | Included* | Billed per GB of data scanned |
| Alerting | Included* | Included (with limits) |
*Generous tiers with soft limits.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions from teams self-hosting Loki.
But our team has already learned LogQL. Why switch?
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.
Can a managed service really be cheaper than running it ourselves?
Yes. Once you calculate the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)—including the salaries of engineers managing the cluster, infrastructure costs, and lost productivity from a poor UX—the 'free' self-hosted option is almost always more expensive. Oodle provides a superior platform at the cost of self-hosted.
We chose open source to avoid vendor lock-in.
Oodle believes in open standards. Oodle supports ingestion via standard agents like Vector, Fluentd, and the OpenTelemetry Collector. Our architecture is robust, but we make it easy to get data in and out. You stay with Oodle because of the value, not because you're locked in.
We have already invested so much time in our self-hosted setup. Is it hard to migrate?
Migration is simple. You can configure your agent to 'dual-ship' logs to both your old Loki instance and Oodle simultaneously. This allows for a zero-downtime, risk-free transition where you can directly compare the performance and UX. Our team provides white-glove support to ensure it's painless.
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.
