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24 alternatives to Logtrail – A Kibana plugin for logs that clones the Papertrail UI

Kibana plugin to view, search & live tail log events - sivasamyk/logtrail

Logtrail is a Kibana plugin that replicates the user interface of Papertrail for viewing and searching logs. It integrates with Kibana to provide a familiar log-browsing experience similar to Papertrail's design. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Logtrail – A Kibana plugin for logs that clones the Papertrail UI launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Instantly manage logs from 2 servers... or 2,000.

    2014 · my.solarwinds.cloud · its alternatives →

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    Timber.io▲318

    Log better. Solve problems faster.

    2017 · timber.io · its alternatives →

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    How I replaced Google tracking with simple log-based analytics on my personal website.

    2019 · benhoyt.com · its alternatives →

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    Save your most important threads from Slack with one click

    2023 · papertrail.work · 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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    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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    Minilog▲307

    Log monitoring and real-time event alerts

    2024 · minilog.dev · 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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    Hi HN, Mike and Warren here! We're excited to share some (early) work towards our next major version of HyperDX. HyperDX makes it easy to visualize/search logs & traces on top of Clickhouse (so incident & bug investigations hopefully go by a little easier). For example, if a team is thinking of migrating to Clickhouse for their observability data warehouse [1][2][3] usually due to cost or data privacy reasons, they can easily throw HyperDX on top to do the UI layer for analysis and dashboarding in a dev-friendly way (aka not needing to type paragraphs of SQL to find some logs) Over the…

    2024 · github.com · 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 →

  11. 11AB

    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 HN! I’m Karan, creator of Logchef (https://logchef.app), an open-source log viewer built specifically for exploring logs stored in ClickHouse. This tool grew directly out of my $day job managing massive log volumes. Like many orgs, we migrated our log workloads to ClickHouse for its performance, but found the ecosystem lacked dedicated UI tooling for actually browsing and analyzing those logs effectively. We were using Metabase, and while great for general BI, it wasn't designed for log exploration workflows. Common pain points included: - Clunky Ad-hoc Querying:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    LogDNA Agent streams from log files to your LogDNA account. Works with Linux, Windows, and macOS Servers - logdna/logdna-agent

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Otelic▲116

    Affordable hosted Logs & Traces for your app

    2015 · otelic.com · 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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    Track every critical event within your product

    2023 · boxyhq.com · its alternatives →

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    Log and monitor your projects

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Manage your Papertrail logs on the go ☁️📱

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Modern MacOS Log viewer for iOS developers with MCP support

    Dec 2025 · betterlogger.app · its alternatives →

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    Aggregate logs, discover and fix errors in real time

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Netdata just added a plugin to view, query and explore SystemD Journal logs, using exclusively the journal files! Centralize your logs with SystemD Journal Remote, and this Netdata plugin can provide Loki/Elastic/Splunk like views, by directly accessing the journal files!

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A lightweight, ultra-fast tool for building observability pipelines

    2017 · timber.io · its alternatives →

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    The Comprehensive File Activity Monitoring and Auditing Tool

    2025 · fileactivity.com · its alternatives →

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    Multi-platform desktop elasticsearch GUI & management tool

    2021 · its alternatives →

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