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24 alternatives to I made simple and cheap log monitoring

Hello I'm Jack, I was previously a Site Reliability Engineer and i've been working on monitro.dev which makes log monitoring simple for individuals or small teams. It allows you to easily forward any logs to multiple channels such as Slack, Discord & Telegram. The events are also viewable though the admin dashboard and are easily filterable. Currently there is only an NPM package with javascript / typescript support but i have plans to expand this to other languages such as Python, Rust etc. The package has many options, one of them is forwarding any uncaught exception and as an event…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I made simple and cheap log monitoring launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Simple & cheap log alerting

    2024 · its alternatives →

  2. 2LI

    Mengutamakan tampilan modern dan kemudahan navigasi, BUSUR4D menghadirkan pengalaman gaming yang terasa lebih sederhana namun tetap menarik. Beragam pilihan permainan dapat dijelajahi dalam satu platform dengan interface responsif dan desain visual yang nyaman, sehingga aktivitas gaming menjadi lebi

    2011 · logio.org · its alternatives →

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    superlog▲497

    Hey HN, we’re Nico and Arseniy, co-founders of Superlog (https://superlog.sh). We're building a self-installing, self healing observability tool meant not to be opened. It has a wizard that daily sets up proper logging and an agent that investigates errors and opens PRs. Super short demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFhU9Mk247M. In our earlier startups, we tried Sentry, Datadog, Grafana, Dash0, and nothing was good enough. Proper telemetry and alerting still requires a ton of manual setup. We struggled with adding good logs, so debugging was tough, especially as…

    Jun 2026 · superlog.sh · its alternatives →

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    Minilog▲307

    Log monitoring and real-time event alerts

    2024 · minilog.dev · its alternatives →

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    Log and monitor your projects

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Timber.io▲318

    Log better. Solve problems faster.

    2017 · timber.io · its alternatives →

  7. 7AB

    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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    Signale▲190

    Elegant & hackable console logger for Nodejs 👋

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Monika▲78

    Open source and free HTTP monitoring tool

    2022 · monika.hyperjump.tech · its alternatives →

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    Hey hn! I'm one of the co-founders of highlight.io, an open source monitoring tool. Today we're sharing a ClickHouse-based logging solution we've been working on. We wanted to showcase how we built it and share how you could try it out to give feedback. Since we started working on highlight.io, we've been hyper-focused on "cohesion", or ensuring that when you install your monitoring stack, all of the resources in that stack (user interactions, requests, traces, logs, etc.) are connected in a consumable way. We've written up more about our philosophy on this here [1]. We started building…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    🚀 Realtime Monitoring solution for Node.js/Express.js apps, inspired by status.github.com, sponsored by https://dynobase.dev - RafalWilinski/express-status-monitor

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A small, open-source alternative to Slack

    2017 · totaljs.com · its alternatives →

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    There are many log alerting systems on the market. The best known is probably Datadog. There’s also Logtail, Papertrail, Splunk, Logstash and others. These are well put together products with a host of great features, such as excellent UIs, sophisticated live searching via web interfaces and sometimes query languages and alerting. They require various levels of installation and they have costs, either through volume-based tiered systems or monthly payments. For a bootstrapped business, this can be problematic, for instance when a surge of logs - indicating a possible important problem that…

    2023 · profitview.net · its alternatives →

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    Otelic▲116

    Affordable hosted Logs & Traces for your app

    2015 · otelic.com · its alternatives →

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    LogRocket helps you understand problems affecting your users, so that you can get back to building great software.

    2016 · logrocket.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey Hackers, I was building multiple projects lately, and integrating logging was way too much for me. Managing self hosted ELK stack, or using existing log monitoring services (running their agent was consuming hell of resources on my tiny servers). It took me a day to code my own logging server, and client for python projects (serving as python packages - pypi), named it HueLogs. Sharing with you all, please feel free to contribute if you like. I might be adding a npm package for javascript client if I get chance to code tomorrow. Few features too add: - 30 min, last day logs etc. -…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Free 1:1 live chat help for react developers

    2022 · simplydebug.com · its alternatives →

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    G’day Hacker News, I’m Simon Gurcke, the sole founder of Apitally (https://apitally.io). I’m building a simple API monitoring and analytics tool for Python / Node.js apps. It helps users understand API usage and performance, spot issues early and troubleshoot effectively when something goes wrong. Features include: - Dashboards: Provide insights into API traffic, errors, performance and consumers. - Request logging: Opt-in and highly configurable in terms of what data is logged. Users can drill down from aggregated metrics to individual requests (proven to be super helpful…

    2023 · apitally.io · its alternatives →

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    Highly configurable logging utility for NodeJS 👋

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Loggl▲63

    Track your events get insights on performance

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Real-time log monitor with zero setup for Node.js

    Feb 2026 · littleboy9.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Simple application monitoring for developers

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    console.log Your Production App.

    2025 · logmonitor.io · its alternatives →

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