If you need a logging solution, Logz.io offers limited retention at a high ingestion price per GB. Bronto solves both logging and tracing with more reliable performance at scale and at a lower price.
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Logz.io list prices at its included 7 days of log retention. Bronto plans are chosen by ingest alone: Starter up to 1 TB a month, Pro up to 5 TB, with unlimited users.
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Logz.io costs 5.2× as much, with shorter log & trace retention.
High-level comparison across what matters most.
Query Speed
When an error pops up, query speed impacts your MTTR. Bronto was designed to enable lightning fast search across high volumes of logs.
Logz.io users routinely report timeouts and slow dashboard loads when querying large or long time-range datasets.
Data Retention
Retain a larger dataset to ensure that your root cause analysis has rich context. No archiving or rehydrating logs to find what matters.
Logz.io retains logs for only 7 days before charging extra for retention, and retains traces for 10 days with no extension option. These limits can turn investigations into deadends.
Log Parsing
Bronto's AI-native parsing means there's no manual configuration required (grok, regex, etc.) for any log type.
If you have logs that are custom or use an unsupported schema, you'll have to spend time manually configure parsing with Grok/regex rules.
Cost of Ownership
Bronto charges only $0.10 per GB of ingestion for always hot logs & traces.
Logz.io charges $0.92 per GB of logs for only 7 days of hot retention. Metrics and spans are priced separately.
Petabyte-scale log search with SQL, live tail and instant filtering.
“The combination of long-term retention, lightning-fast search, and AI-powered insights means we catch issues much earlier, often before customers notice them.”
| Feature | | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | per-GB ingest + per-GB indexed + custom metrics + retention options | Ingestion & Search Tiers |
| Hot log retention | 7 days default, archive extra, + retention management | 12 months included |
| Search cost | Included in ingestion price | 20x - 100x tiered search |
| AI log analysis | OrionIQ, included | Bronto Scope, included |
Every byte of telemetry is instantly queryable — no rehydration, no cold tiers, no waiting.
12 months of retention included out of the box. Keep your data as long as you need it.
No sampling, no aggregation, no data loss. Every log, trace, and metric stored exactly as received.
See exactly what you're ingesting and what it costs. Set quotas, alerts, and exclusion filters in seconds.
Sub-second queries across petabytes of data. Purpose-built indexing that scales with your growth.
At ingestion, Bronto parses your logs using known formats or AI — so every field is structured and instantly searchable.
