Self-hosted log aggregation with live tail, search and alert rules.
Developers rent API docs, monitoring, secrets and webhook plumbing by the month for side projects that earn nothing yet. Self-hosted pay-once utilities cost less than one month of the SaaS they replace.
The tool this job usually means renting is Papertrail, at $7/mo — roughly $84 a year, every year. Logbin does the job for a one-time $34 — running on infrastructure you control.
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.
For developers, ingest anything pays off while you're shipping, not managing vendor accounts — and it's covered by the same one-time $34, not metered per month.
An SSE stream with source and level filters, text matching, pause/resume and auto-scroll.
For developers, live tail pays off while you're shipping, not managing vendor accounts — and it's covered by the same one-time $34, not metered per month.
Text search with match highlighting, per-source and per-level filters and saved views.
For developers, search and filter pays off while you're shipping, not managing vendor accounts — and it's covered by the same one-time $34, not metered per month.
One payment of $34 gets you the packaged 1-click installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/log-viewer-aggregator-mvp and run it yourself for free.
docker compose up on a $5 VPS for real ingestion, or run the Electron desktop build for local dev-log tailing.
POST a log line with a source API key, or point the syslog listener and shipper scripts at your servers, then tail and search everything in the UI.
Logbin is $34, once. Papertrail at $7/mo — roughly $84 a year, every year. A handful of months on a metered log plan already beats Logbin's one-time $34, and the first outage that would have bumped your tier pays it off outright.
A handful of months on a metered log plan already beats Logbin's one-time $34, and the first outage that would have bumped your tier pays it off outright. Logbin costs $34 once; Papertrail charges $7/mo — about $84 a year. For developers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
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.
Never. Logbin stores everything in SQLite on your own server, so unlike hosted aggregators your logs stay on your box.