Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Log collector that runs on a $4 VPS
Hey guys, I'm building erlog to try and solve problems with logging. While trying to add logs to my application, I couldn't find any lightweight log platform which was easy to set up without adding tons of dependencies to my code, or configuring 10,000 files. ErLog is just a simple go web server which batch inserts json logs into an sqlite3 server. Through tuning sqlite3 and batching inserts, I find I can get around 8k log insertions/sec which is fast enough for small projects. This is just an MVP, and I plan to add more features once I talk to users. If anyone has any problems with…
ErLog is a lightweight log collection platform built as a Go web server that stores JSON logs in SQLite3. It handles approximately 8,000 log insertions per second through batching and optimization, making it suitable… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Log collector that runs on a $4 VPS launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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My immediate reaction to today's news that Splunk was being acquired was to comment in the HN discussion for that story: "I hated Splunk so much that I spent a couple days a few months ago writing a single 1200 line python script that does absolutely everything I need in terms of automatic log collection, ingestion, and analysis from a fleet of cloud instances. It pulls in all the log lines, enriches them with useful metadata like the IP address of the instance, the machine name, the log source, the datetime, etc. and stores it all in SQlite, which it then exposes to a very convenient web…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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errsole▲133First open-source Node.js logger with a built-in log viewer
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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superlog▲497Hey 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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Hey HN, Some of you were really interested in Postgres logging with pgAudit in my previous post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37082827 So I built this logger: https://rocketgraph.io/logger-demo using pgAudit to show you what can be done with Postgres auditing. It offers some powerful features like "get me all the CREATE queries that ran in the past hour". These are generated by AWS RDS Instance running on my Rocketgraph account. Then they are forwarded to Cloudwatch for complex querying. In the future we can connect these logs to slack so you can…
2023 · rocketgraph.io · its alternatives →
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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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Hey everyone! I’m working on Telescope - an open-source web-based log viewer designed to make working with logs stored in ClickHouse easier and more intuitive. I wasn’t happy with existing log viewers - most of them force a specific log format, are tied to ingestion pipelines, or are just a small part of a larger platform. Others didn’t display logs the way I wanted. So I decided to build my own lightweight, flexible log viewer - one that actually fits my needs. Check it out: Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IItMOXwugY GitHub:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Go web server with built in logging, tracing, health check, and graceful shutdown. It also includes a few demo applications showing the Go HTML temple functionality. - GitHub - photonlines/Go-Web-Server: A Go web server with built in logging, tracing, health check, and graceful shutdown. It also i
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · log-shuttle.io · its alternatives →
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We built Gonzo to make log analysis faster and friendlier in the terminal. Think of it like k9s for logs — a TUI that can ingest JSON, text, or OpenTelemetry (OTLP) logs, highlight and boil up patterns, and even run AI models locally or via API to summarize logs. We’re still iterating, so ideas and contributions are welcome!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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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Build, optimize, and act on telemetry data with Mezmo.
2017 · docs.logdna.com · 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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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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Hello folks, We are launching OpenObserve. An open source Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative written in rust and vue that is super easy to get started with and has 140x lower storage cost compared to elasticsearch. It offers logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, functions (run aws lambda like functions during ingestion and query to enrich, redact, transform, normalize and whatever else you want to do. Think redacting email IDs from logs, adding geolocation based on IP address, etc). You can do all of this from the UI, no messing up with configuration files. OpenObserve…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An alternative to stack traces for your Go errors. Contribute to bracesdev/errtrace development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi Everyone! Kubetail is a general-purpose logging dashboard for Kubernetes, optimized for tailing logs across multi-container workloads in real-time. With Kubetail, you can view logs from all the containers in a workload (e.g. Deployment or DaemonSet) merged into a single chronological timeline, delivered to your browser or terminal. I launched Kubetail on HN last year and at that time the top request was to add search. Now I'm happy to say we finally have search available in our latest official release (cli/v0.4.3, helm/v0.10.1). You can check it out in action here:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all! I built Spikelog because I kept wanting to track simple numbers over time but every time I looked at proper observability tools, I'd bounce off the setup complexity. I wanted to make something that didn't require a lot of thinking to use. Spikelog is made to be as simple as possible: - POST a JSON with chart name + value (you can add some tags as well but I've not tested this part works yet) - Chart appears automatically - 1,000 point rolling window per chart (old data expires, no retention config) - Max 10 charts That's basically the whole product. I built it in about a day using…
Nov 2025 · spikelog.com · its alternatives →
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Automated serverless logging to S3 via SQS. Contribute to ellimilial/sqs-s3-logger development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simple logger for Go programs. Allows custom formats for messages. - apsdehal/go-logger
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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For more background and technical details, I wrote this up as well: https://dmitryfrank.com/projects/nerdlog/article
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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