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Logflare
What Logflare is
Logflare combines log management with application performance management. It collects events from Cloudflare, Vercel, Elixir, JavaScript, Heroku, Gigalixir, Fluent Bit, and webhooks, then supports structured metadata whose schema adjusts as fields change. Events are stored in BigQuery and can be queried with standard SQL; users can also build Google Data Studio dashboards, tail logs live, export archives, and create log pipelines. Email, webhook, Slack, and Discord alerts are available on all plans, while SMS alerts are for paid subscribers. The free Project plan costs nothing, billed monthly, and includes up to 12,960,000 events per month, up to 50 fields, and up to three days of retention. Its free-tier ingestion stops when the average reaches five events per second over the last 60 seconds. Paid plans include Metered at $15 a month and Metered BYOB at $10 a month, with event-volume billing after one million events. Logflare supports web, iOS, Android, API, and self-hosted deployments. The company says it is now part of Supabase and directs customers there for support.
Who it suits
Logflare suits teams that need to collect and query structured application logs, build dashboards, or set alerts. It may also suit teams that want self-hosting or multiple ingestion options.
What it does well
- Queries structured event data with standard SQL in BigQuery.
- Supports live log tailing, archive export, and log pipelines.
- Email, webhook, Slack, and Discord alerts are available to all users.
- Self-hosting is available on a single machine.
What to know first
- Free ingestion stops at its stated average event limit.
- SMS alerts are limited to paid subscribers.
- Self-hosted mode does not support team features.
- Project retention is limited to three days.
Limits
The Project free plan includes up to 12,960,000 events per month, up to 50 fields, and up to three days of retention. Ingestion stops when the average reaches five log events per second over the last 60 seconds. SMS alerts are only available to paid subscribers.
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Metered BYOB | starts at $10 per million log events after one million, paid monthly · unlimited team members and sources · 1-minute alerts · Google Data Studio included · customer BigQuery backend · up to 500 fields · unlimited retention · unlimited events subject to fair use · unlimited rate limits · up to 10M shown | $10 a month |
| Metered | starts at $15 per million log events after one million, paid monthly · unlimited team members and sources · 1-minute alerts · Google Data Studio included · Logflare backend · up to 500 fields · up to 90 days retention · unlimited events subject to fair use · unlimited rate limits · up to 10M shown | $15 a month |
| Project | per month · 0 additional team members · unlimited sources · 4-hour alerts · no dashboards · no natural-language queries · Logflare backend · up to 50 fields · up to 3 days retention · 12,960,000 events/month · 5 events/second average rate · burst 300 | On request |
| Enterprise | custom event volumes · EU ingestion · AWS support · custom storage pipelines | On request |
As logflare.app lists them, read 15 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Getting started
- Visit https://logflare.app/ and choose the Project free plan or a paid plan.
- Connect an ingestion source such as Cloudflare, Vercel, or a webhook.
- Send events and query structured metadata with SQL in BigQuery.
- Configure alerts by email, webhook, Slack, or Discord; paid subscribers can also use SMS.
- Choose a supported web or mobile platform, API access, or a self-hosted deployment.
Verdict
Logflare covers event collection, SQL querying, dashboards, alerting, and live log viewing. Review its free ingestion limit, plan retention, and self-hosted team-feature limitation against your needs.
Questions
What does Logflare cost?
The Project plan is free. Metered BYOB costs $10 a month, and Metered costs $15 a month; event-volume billing starts after one million events on both paid plans.
Is there a free plan or trial?
Yes, Logflare offers the Project free plan and a 14-day trial.
Which platforms does Logflare support?
It supports Android, iOS, web, API access, and self-hosting.
Can Logflare be self-hosted?
Yes. Self-hosting supports a single machine with BigQuery or experimental PostgreSQL backends; team features are unsupported in self-hosted mode.
What is the difference between the paid plans?
Metered uses the Logflare backend and offers up to 90 days of retention. Metered BYOB uses a BigQuery backend and includes unlimited retention.
Who supports Logflare?
Logflare says it is now part of Supabase and directs users to Supabase for support.
Facts from Logflare's own pages
- Alerts
- Query Alerts run BigQuery SELECT statements on schedules of at least five minutes and can notify Slack or webhooks. · docs.logflare.app, 15 Oct 2026
- API authentication
- Access tokens support ingest, query and management scopes plus Bearer, X-API-KEY and query-parameter authentication. · docs.logflare.app, 15 Oct 2026
- Archive export
- Yes · logflare.app, 22 Sept 2026
- Automatic schema
- Logflare detects new fields in incoming events and updates the underlying BigQuery schema automatically. · api.logflare.app, 15 Oct 2026
- Backends
- Managed BigQuery is the default backend, while BYOB BigQuery and other multi-backend adapters are supported; multi-backend mode is private alpha. · docs.logflare.app, 15 Oct 2026
- Company
- Logflare says it is now part of Supabase and directs users to Supabase for support. · logflare.app, 3 Oct 2026
- Dashboards
- BigQuery integration provides Google Data Studio dashboards and direct access to the underlying table for Google-authenticated users. · api.logflare.app, 15 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- both · logflare.app, 22 Sept 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation covers ingestion, LQL, querying, access tokens, endpoints, alerts, backends, integrations, contributing and self-hosting. · docs.logflare.app, 15 Oct 2026
- Elixir client limitation
- The Elixir logger backend warns that BigQuery type changes can reject later events and that non-binary messages are unsupported. · github.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Endpoint API
- Endpoints expose SQL queries as GET or POST HTTP APIs returning JSON, but the feature is alpha and private preview. · docs.logflare.app, 15 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Yes · logflare.app, 22 Sept 2026
- Free tier limit
- The free plan averages a limit of 5 log events per second over the last 60 seconds, and ingestion stops when that average is reached. · logflare.app, 3 Oct 2026
- Ingestion
- The site lists Cloudflare, Vercel, Elixir, JavaScript, Heroku, Gigalixir, Fluent Bit, and webhooks as ingestion options. · logflare.app, 3 Oct 2026
- Ingestion API
- The getting-started API accepts batched JSON through a POST request with an X-API-KEY header and source identifier. · docs.logflare.app, 15 Oct 2026
- Ingestion integrations
- The product lists Cloudflare, Vercel, Elixir, JavaScript, Heroku, Gigalixir, Fluent Bit and webhook ingestion. · api.logflare.app, 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The public Logflare repository is licensed under Apache-2.0. · github.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: adoption complexity
- A Reddit commenter said the product's use cases were difficult to understand, and another described moving from Elastic as a significant effort. · reddit.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Live log tailing
- Yes · logflare.app, 22 Sept 2026
- Log pipelines
- Yes · logflare.app, 22 Sept 2026
- Management API
- The query API uses GET /api/query with SQL and requires a management-scoped access token. · docs.logflare.app, 15 Oct 2026
- News: acquisition
- Supabase announced its acquisition of Logflare on December 2, 2021, identifying Chase Granberry as founder. · supabase.com, 15 Oct 2026
- News: scale and licence
- A Supabase article dated April 10, 2023 said Logflare handled more than one billion events per day for Supabase and had changed from the Business Source License to Apache 2.0. · supabase.com, 15 Oct 2026
- OpenTelemetry
- An OpenTelemetry integration accepts events directly from OpenTelemetry SDKs. · docs.logflare.app, 15 Oct 2026
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