🪵 Logbin
Self-hosted log aggregation with live tail, search and alert rules.
Logbin at a glance
| Price | $34, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | Papertrail at $7/mo — roughly $84 a year, every year |
| Type | Self-hosted web app |
| Platforms | Your own server (VPS / Docker), any browser |
| Category | Developer Tools |
Logbin features
📥 Ingest anything
POST /ingest takes plaintext, JSON, arrays or NDJSON with levels auto-detected, plus a syslog UDP listener that auto-creates sources and two tiny file-shipper scripts.
📡 Live tail
An SSE stream with source and level filters, text matching, pause/resume and auto-scroll.
🔎 Search and filter
Text search with match highlighting, per-source and per-level filters and saved views.
🚨 Alert rules
Fire a webhook or email when a regex like /ERROR|FATAL/ matches N times in M seconds, with cooldowns so one incident is one alert.
🗄️ Per-source retention
Auto-purge old rows (default 14 days) to keep SQLite lean, with rotatable per-source API keys and color-coded sources.
🖥️ Desktop mode or VPS
Electron app for local dev-log tailing, Docker for the real thing.
$34 once — that's the whole pricing page
Papertrail charges $7/mo — roughly $84 a year, every year. Logbin is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Logbin inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Logbin guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes. Logbin is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/log-viewer-aggregator-mvp and always will be. The $34 buys the packaged 1-click installer; building from source is free.
Do my logs ever leave my infrastructure?
Never. Logbin stores everything in SQLite on your own server, so unlike hosted aggregators your logs stay on your box.
How much volume can it really handle?
Honestly, small-team volumes: SQLite comfortably handles millions of rows with retention doing its job. This is not an Elasticsearch cluster and does not pretend to be, and search is LIKE-based rather than a full-text index.