What are the key differences between Logmanager and Logz.io? Logmanager and Logz.io differ in a few concrete ways: pricing model, product scope, deployment, and target team. Pricing: Logz.io charges per GB ingested per day, and the rate rises the longer you keep the data. Logmanager charges a flat rate per GB actually stored each month, regardless of retention length. Product scope: Logz.io bundles logs with metrics, distributed tracing, and AI-agent features into one broader observability platform. Logmanager stays focused on log management, not a full observability or APM suite. Deployment and data control: Logz.io is cloud-only, hosted on AWS. Logmanager gives you a choice: self-host for full data control, or use Logmanager’s fully-managed cloud, with a Data Processing Agreement that keeps processing in the EU member state. Target team: Logmanager is often seen as an alternative to Logz.io for organizations without a dedicated DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering function. Logmanager is built for lean-IT teams who want enterprise-grade log management without a dedicated log engineer.
What does it take to move from Logz.io to Logmanager? Moving your log data off Logz.io isn’t a data migration in the traditional sense. Your log sources carry over as-is: you repoint them at Logmanager (source type, IP, destination port) instead of the Logz.io shipper or agent you’re using today, and Logmanager’s 140+ prebuilt parsers cover most common source types automatically, so data starts flowing without building parsing from scratch. What doesn’t carry over: Logz.io-specific configuration (custom parsers and field mappings, saved searches, dashboards, and Lucene-based alert rules) has to be rebuilt in Logmanager. Its prebuilt dashboards and the no-code Blockly builder make that faster than starting from a blank page, but it isn’t a one-click import. Typical timeline: the virtual appliance deploys in about 30 minutes. Getting sources onboarded and confirming everything’s flowing usually takes 2–3 hours, with another 1–2 hours for follow-up configuration (custom parsers, alert rules, dashboards).
What log retention period can I get with Logmanager compared to Logz.io? Retention works differently on each side. As of August 2026, Logz.io’s base plans include 7 days of Hot retention, and every additional day is billed separately, with Warm and Cold tiers available for longer, cheaper archival through a sales conversation. Logmanager charges the same flat per-GB rate no matter how long you keep the data, so retention becomes a storage-capacity decision rather than a per-day cost. Self-hosted Max tiers scale to 20 TB and beyond, making multi-year retention practical for compliance needs.
How can Logmanager be deployed? You choose: a turnkey hardware appliance or a virtual appliance on your own VMware, Hyper-V, or Proxmox infrastructure for full control over where your data lives, or Logmanager’s own fully-managed cloud SaaS if you’d rather not run the infrastructure yourself.
Does Logmanager have a free version? Yes. Logmanager offers a genuinely free log management software, permanent tier: $0/month, self-hosted, full feature set, unlimited users, up to 100 GB of storage. There is also a 7-day free trial if you’d rather test the managed cloud or a paid tier first.
How does Logmanager ensure the security of my business data? Logmanager is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, covering how the company itself manages information security. Log storage is tamper-proof and immutable, so stored data can’t be altered or deleted after the fact, and the self-hosted appliance runs hardened, with SSH disabled at the OS level. Self-hosting keeps your data entirely on your own infrastructure; choosing the managed cloud instead comes with a data processing agreement restricting processing to EU member state, with your written consent required for any exception.
