Moderate to move
Cloud Logging on Akamai (Linode): what it becomes and what it costs.
On Akamai (Linode), Cloud Logging becomes Loki + Grafana. Logs are well covered by open source; sinks and dashboards need rebuilding.
Effort grade
Moderate
Same software, self-hosted: you patch, back up and fix it
Cost after the move, before engineer time
20% of today
$0.50 per GiB ingested; Loki on a CX43 (€16) plus object storage at €6.5/TB, about 20%.
Engineer time
6 h a month
To run the replacement: patching, backups, on-call. Plus about 5 engineer days for the move itself.
Your own Cloud Logging line, from your export
Drop one month of your Google Cloud cost export and the report prices every service, Cloud Logging included, on Akamai (Linode) list prices of 18 Oct 2026, net of the engineer time to run it. In your browser; nothing is uploaded.