Logs · Updated 10 November 2026 · 9 min read

European alternatives to Better Stack and Logtail in 2026

Where to send your logs, uptime checks and status pages if you want a European operator: Scaleway Cockpit, OVHcloud, Eurobase, self-hosted Loki and Grafana Cloud compared.

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If you want Better Stack's log side from a company based in Europe, start with Scaleway Cockpit or OVHcloud Logs Data Platform, both sold by French providers. Apps hosted on Eurobase already get a Logs page in every plan, which can be enough for one app. For uptime checks and status pages without a US vendor, self-hosted Loki next to Uptime Kuma covers both, and Grafana Cloud is the polished hosted pick if an American operator with EU storage is fine for you.

Logtail is the old brand: logtail.com now redirects to Better Stack's log management page. Better Stack is a Delaware corporation, so choosing its Germany region moves the stored data, not the company in charge of it.

Better Stack alternatives at a glance

Platform	Company	Logs stored in	Free allowance	Paid pricing	Uptime and status pages
Scaleway Cockpit	France	Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw or Milan	Scaleway resource logs, 7 days	Custom logs billed per GB ingested	Not documented
OVHcloud Logs Data Platform	France	Not stated	First GB a month	$1.04 per GiB a month up to 100 GB	Not documented
Eurobase	Warsaw, Poland	European infrastructure run by Scaleway	256 MiB a month	Included in €10 or €20 a month + VAT	No
Self-hosted Loki + Uptime Kuma	You	Servers you pick	Free software	Your servers and storage	Yes, with Uptime Kuma
Grafana Cloud	New York, United States	EU regions on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure	50 GB a month, 14 days	From $19 a month + usage	Synthetic checks; status pages not documented
Better Stack, for reference	Delaware, United States	Germany region available	3 GB a month, 3 days	$0.10 per GB ingested in its Germany region	Yes

Prices are from each provider's own page, checked on 9 and 10 November 2026.

What to check before you switch

The Better Stack features your team opens every week. Its plans mix logs, uptime monitors, status pages and on-call. Most European replacements stop at logs, so plan for a second tool if you rely on the rest.
Who runs the service. Data in an EU region can still be reachable under US law when the operator is American. EU region vs EU company explains the difference.
Your log shipper. Cockpit accepts any agent that speaks the Loki push protocol, for example Fluent Bit or Grafana Alloy. OVHcloud reads GELF, Syslog, LTSV and other standard formats. Often only the endpoint and token in your collector change.
How long you keep logs, and what that costs. Free plans hold data for days. Work out the retention your incident reviews or audits need, then compare prices at that length.
Personal data inside log lines. IP addresses and user IDs are personal data, so list the new provider in your records and sign its data processing agreement. More in the GDPR hosting checklist.

1. Scaleway Cockpit

Cockpit bundles Loki storage with a Grafana instance for searching it. Products you run on Scaleway send their logs automatically. To add your own app or machines hosted anywhere, create a custom data source in the region you want, generate a push token and point your Loki-compatible agent at that endpoint.

Best for: teams that only need a Loki endpoint and want a European company behind it.
Price: logs from Scaleway resources cost nothing for the first 7 days. Custom logs are charged per GB ingested. You can keep them anywhere from 1 day to 5 years, and every day past the free 7 is charged on the volume stored.
What it lacks: Cockpit's docs don't describe uptime monitors, status pages or on-call rotations.

2. OVHcloud Logs Data Platform

This is OVHcloud's hosted logging product, built on OpenSearch with Graylog managing the incoming streams, and Grafana or Graylog for dashboards. Logs travel over TLS from any cloud or your own servers, and alerting and an API come included.

Best for: teams that search the full text of large log volumes or must keep archives for a long time.
Price: the Standard plan has no subscription and the first GB a month is free. From 2 to 100 GB you pay $1.04 per GiB a month, and $0.41 per GiB above 101 GB. You choose retention of 14 days, 1 month, 3 months or 1 year. The dedicated Enterprise option is $313 a month with a one-off $209 setup fee.
What it lacks: the product page doesn't say which datacenter holds the logs. Its alerts work on log data you send; uptime monitors and status pages aren't listed.

3. Eurobase project logs

Treat this as a partial replacement. Eurobase is where your app runs, not a collector for logs from elsewhere. If you host the app there, each project's Logs page lists deployment, HTTP request, container, function, storage and Worker events, and you can narrow them by resource, status and time range. Standard output from a container shows up within a few minutes, and the MCP server lets coding agents query the same entries.

Best for: a small team paying Better Stack mostly for one app's logs, when that app could move to Eurobase.
Price: comes with the workspace plan: 256 MiB of logs a month on Free, 1 GiB on Starter at €10 a month + VAT, and 5 GiB on Pro at €20 a month + VAT. You aren't billed for usage today: work over a limit is refused, apps on V8 isolates and Functions stop until the monthly reset, and containers and static sites keep serving.
What it lacks: logs from machines outside Eurobase, uptime monitors, status pages and alert routing. Entries stay for up to 30 days, capped at the newest 10,000 per kind, and the Workers view only goes back 24 hours. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 are being worked on, and neither certificate is held today.

4. Self-hosted Loki and Uptime Kuma

Loki only indexes a set of labels for each log stream, then compresses the log text into chunks kept in object storage, so storage stays cheap. Add Grafana to search and chart it. Uptime Kuma, an MIT-licensed monitoring app, handles the other half: checks at 20-second intervals, alerts to over 90 notification services, and multiple status pages you can map to your own domains.

Best for: teams that want logs and checks on machines they control and can spare time to maintain them.
Price: no licence fee. One small European VM gets you started. Hetzner's cloud price list begins at €5.49 a month excl. VAT for a server in Helsinki, but on 10 November 2026 its cheapest plans showed as unavailable to order.
What it lacks: an operator other than you for disk alerts, version upgrades and restores. Put Uptime Kuma on a different machine from the app, or an outage takes the monitor down too.

5. Grafana Cloud

Grafana Labs Inc., headquartered in New York, sells Loki, Grafana and its other tools as a hosted service. In Europe you can pick Germany, Ireland or Sweden on AWS, Belgium on Google Cloud, or the Netherlands on Azure. Its catalogue also lists synthetic API and browser checks and an incident response product.

Best for: teams that want managed Loki plus monitoring checks in one account and accept an American company on American clouds.
Price: the free tier caps logs at 50 GB ingested a month and keeps them 14 days. Pro starts with a $19 monthly platform fee that includes 50 GB ingested and 30 days of retention; beyond that, usage starts at $0.05 per GB processed, $0.40 per GB written and $0.10 per GB retained.
What it lacks: a company based in Europe. All of its EU regions sit on US cloud providers.

How to choose

You need logs only, from a European provider, with a standard agent: Scaleway Cockpit.
Full-text search, or retention up to a year: OVHcloud Logs Data Platform.
The app producing the logs can be hosted on Eurobase: rely on its Logs page and cancel the extra subscription.
Uptime checks and status pages matter as much as logs, and you want no US vendor: Loki with Uptime Kuma, the monitor on its own server.
EU storage and a mature hosted product matter more than the operator's home country: Grafana Cloud.

Comparing more log services and their billing models? See log management hosted in the EU and Papertrail alternatives.

Frequently asked questions

Is Better Stack a European company?

No. Its terms say the service is run by Better Stack, Inc., a Delaware corporation. When you create a source you can choose a German region, so stored data stays in the EU, but the operator remains American.

Is Logtail still a separate product?

No. Visiting logtail.com takes you to Better Stack's log management page, and the logs product now sits inside Better Stack's telemetry offer.

What replaces Better Stack's uptime monitoring and status pages in Europe?

Neither Scaleway Cockpit nor OVHcloud Logs Data Platform documents uptime monitors or status pages. Uptime Kuma is open-source software you host yourself and supports several status pages on your own domains. Host it apart from the servers it checks.

Can I move logs without changing my app code?

Usually. When the app logs to standard output or syslog and a collector like Fluent Bit or Vector forwards it, you swap the collector's endpoint and token. Code that posts straight to Better Stack's HTTP API needs a different sender.

Does Eurobase keep logs in Europe?

Yes. Eurobase runs only on European infrastructure, operated by Scaleway, a French provider. Services that see your data, such as GitHub or GitLab once you connect them, are named on the subprocessor list.