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24 alternatives to An open source clean logs tool

I’ve lost count of how many times a junior engineer accidentally pushed something into a dev branch that either contained secrets/credentials etc. or that leaked those into logs/std. out. Secure-log prevent logging for apps on production, scan for Secrets and remove them from logging. No more console.log().

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. An open source clean logs tool launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Securelog▲112

    Prevent leaked secrets across code, logs, and pipelines

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Log important application events with a single line of code

    2023 · pangea.cloud · its alternatives →

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    Unlogged▲658

    Open Source tool for mocking, testing & optimising

    2024 · plugins.jetbrains.com · its alternatives →

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    Develop faster, eliminate complexity, protect your secrets

    2022 · 1password.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. A few months ago, we introduced here at HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806482) Keep as an “open source alerting CLI” and got some interesting feedback - mainly around UI, automation, and supporting more tools. We were VERY early back then, and we understood that although the current DX around creating alerts is not great, it's not that critical and developers don’t need another tool just for that. But we did find something else. While talking to developers and devops, we found that a lot of companies use many tools…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Track every critical event within your product

    2023 · boxyhq.com · its alternatives →

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    git:logs▲176

    The definitive list of open source resources on Github

    2016 · franksohakune.com · its alternatives →

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    Finally open sourced an internal tool we've been using for managing secrets. It's similar to SOPS, but more opinionated, easier to configure/use correctly, and produces nicer git diffs. It also supports one-way encryption, so you don't have to know the private key to add secrets.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    aToday, we’re excited to announce that we’re going to be able to build tools that impact almost every software developer on the planet — we’re joining GitHub.

    2015 · appcanary.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10AB

    Hello everyone, there are many log services available and this is my attempt at a better one. Most online logging tools feature convoluted UIs, arbitrary mandatory fields, questionable AI/insights, complex pricing, etc. I hope my application fixes most of these issues. It also has some nice features, such as automatic Geo IP checks and public dashboards. Although I've created lots of software, this is my first open source application (MIT license), the tutorial for selfhosting is hopefully sufficient! Most of my development career has been with C#, NodeJS and PHP. For this project I've…

    2025 · txtlog.net · its alternatives →

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    EnvKey▲79

    Protect api keys and credentials. Keep config in sync.

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! Parth, and Shardul here. We have been building unlogged.io for the last 21 months. We started as a time travel debugger and pivoted to record and replay with assertions, mocking, and code coverage. You can save the replays in the form of a JSON and commit them to your git. Both Parth and I come from an e-commerce/payments background where production bugs meant heavy financial losses. Big billion days/Black Friday sales meant months of code freezes with low productivity. Before committing the code, we wanted to replay production traffic and know the breaking changes right…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Don't lose control of your online accounts to hackers!

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    🔈 Nicer CLIs foz lazy devs. Contribute to jesusprubio/leg development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Secli▲85

    A CLI to store secrets locally

    2022 · crates.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep Here. We were tired of creating alerts for our applications, so we've built an open-source GitHub Bot that lets you write application alerts using plain English. The code is open-sourced: https://github.com/keephq/keep so you can review it yourself. Every developer and DevOps professional is familiar with the fact that in order to ensure your application works in production, you need to access your observability tool's user interface (such as Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, etc.) and carefully determine how to create alerts that…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    and the open source Codes of Conduct

    2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →

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    SSH access for developers. Secure, European, done right.

    May 2026 · securssh.com · its alternatives →

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    hey guys, wanted to show one of my side projects i just made public. the idea is basically another osint tool for pentesters and bug bounty hunters. it watches certificate transparency logs and checks newly-seen domains for exposed stuff like .env files, open .git dirs, config files, db dumps and so on, and puts whatever it finds into a searchable db. you just search a domain (or part of one) and see what's exposed. it's read-only and free. one thing i've been thinking about adding is a way to register for certain keywords and get notified when something new shows up for that search. would…

    Jul 2026 · search.cerast-intelligence.com · its alternatives →

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    We're launching SecureBuild: https://securebuild.com — a new way for open source projects and maintainers to earn revenue by partnering with and endorsing our Zero-CVE container images of their project. We’ve spent the last decade at Replicated (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9841243) helping commercial and open source software vendors securely distribute their apps to enterprise environments. During that time, we saw firsthand how hard it is for maintainers to fund their work, and how increasingly demanding enterprises have become when it comes to demonstrable…

    2025 · securebuild.com · its alternatives →

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    A rewrite of JobLog in Rust. Contribute to dfhoughton/jobrog development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Free defensive Log4Shell tools. Scan logs for CVE-2021-44228 JNDI exploitation attempts (including obfuscated payloads) and check whether a Log4j version is vulnerable.

    2021 · log4shell.tools · its alternatives →

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