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Loggly: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Loggly is a cloud log management and analytics service, part of SolarWinds. It collects logs from sources such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS CloudTrail, Nginx, Apache and Windows without proprietary agents, and offers search, proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, reporting and DevOps integrations. Pro and Enterprise accounts can archive logs to AWS S3. Loggly is delivered as SaaS; self-hosting is not possible.

Loggly belongs to SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC in the United States and therefore falls under US jurisdiction, including the CLOUD Act. According to its security page, the service runs in facilities operated by Amazon Web Services and Equinix; the regions or countries are not named. Loggly says the service can be used in environments subject to EU data protection and directs European customers to the company for standard contractual clauses, with a SolarWinds GDPR resource centre. No EU storage location is documented. Logs often contain personal data, so have the location and transfers set out contractually.

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Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Error Tracking
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Loggly

The European alternatives to Loggly come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Loggly

Loggly is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Loggly hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Loggly is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Loggly together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Loggly?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Loggly include AppSignal, Better Stack and Bugfender. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Loggly?

Our list of EU alternatives to Loggly is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Loggly GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Loggly is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Error Tracking

Error Tracking: Services that report application errors and notify developers. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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