Self-hosted · One-time payment · No vendor lock-in
Centralized logging for small teams. Pay once. Own it forever.
A complete logging, alerting, cron monitoring and uptime system you install on one of your own servers in under five minutes. No SaaS bills. No per-GB pricing. No Kubernetes.
Free download · No credit card · Linux, macOS, BSD
One executable. No Docker, no Kubernetes, no config files.
Auto TLS, auto systemd, auto updates. No on-call for the logger itself.
No per-GB. No per-user. No annual renewal. Yours to keep.
Built for teams that don't have a platform team
If you're spending more time on observability infrastructure than on your own product, you're our customer.
You ship the product. Don't ship a sidecar fleet just to see your logs.
Run one Central Logging install per client server, on their infra. They own the data.
A Datadog bill is a tax on growth. Drop it for a one-time $187.
One binary on the same box that runs your other services. That's it.
Silent failures are costing you customers right now
The worst outages are the ones you don't notice for hours. Centralized logs catch them in seconds.
Your app is broken in Firefox
It looks fine in Chrome on your laptop. Meanwhile half your visitors hit a blank page and bounce — and you never know.
Someone just SSH'd into your server
Was it you? When was it last patched? If an attacker wipes the local logs, would you even know what they touched?
That cron job stopped weeks ago
The weekly invoice email. The nightly backup. The hourly sync. Cron failures are silent by default — until a customer asks why they didn't get something.
How much does an hour of downtime cost your business? If you can't answer that quickly, you need centralized logging.
Everything in one binary
Logging, alerting, cron monitoring, and uptime checks — built to work together out of the box.
Get alerted on what matters
- Application errors — exceptions, 5xx spikes, stack traces
- Security events — SSH logins, unknown admin IPs, failed auth bursts
- Disk and host health — disk over 90%, host offline, service crashed
- Cron heartbeats — backups that didn't run, jobs that didn't finish
- Uptime & latency — site down, page load over threshold, EU vs US
Cron monitoring with run history and alert rules
Familiar query language
Search every log with standard SQL
No proprietary DSL to learn. If you know SELECT and WHERE, you can answer questions across every server, app, and service you run.
- ✓ Full-text search across all sources
- ✓ Save queries and turn any query into an alert rule
- ✓ Export to CSV, forward to other systems
No Kubernetes required
Deploy in two steps
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1
Put the executable on a server.
One static binary. No installer, no runtime, no dependencies.
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Run it.
It fetches its own TLS certificate, registers a systemd service, and starts accepting logs immediately.
Need to move it to a new box? Copy one binary and one data folder. Done. Your logs sit in open formats — no vendor lock-in, ever.
How it compares
For small teams, the cheapest option is often the simplest.
| Central Logging | Datadog / Splunk | Loki + Grafana | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | $187 once | Per-GB / per-host monthly | Free, but you pay for hosting |
| Setup time | Under 5 minutes | Hours (agent rollout) | Days (multi-component) |
| Components to run | One binary | Cloud (managed) | Loki, Promtail, Grafana, object store |
| Data ownership | Yours, on your hardware | Their cloud | Yours |
| Query language | Standard SQL | Proprietary DSL | LogQL |
| Cron & uptime monitoring | Built in | Add-on / extra cost | Separate tools |
| Best for | < 10GB/day, small teams | Enterprises with budget | Teams with a platform engineer |
Comparison reflects typical small-team experience. Your mileage may vary.
Do the math
Industry-leading SaaS centralized logging starts around $150 / GB / month.
For less than one month of the leading SaaS, you own a logging system that grows with you — no per-GB tax, no data hostage situation.
Lifetime license
Pay once. Log forever.
No tiers. No usage caps. No surprise renewal email a year from now.
Free trial
Try every feature, no signup.
$0
- Every feature, fully working
- 10,000 logs / day
- One user, 10 machines
- Free updates within 1.x
No credit card. Upgrade any time.
Unlimited license
For when free isn't enough.
$299
$187/once
- Unlimited logs, users, machines
- One-time payment, lifetime use
- Free updates within 1.x
- 14-day no-questions refund
Pay once. Send unlimited data.
Frequently asked questions
Just $187, once, really?
Yes. No monthly fees, no annual fees, no per-user fees, no support contracts, no upsells. You don't rent Central Logging like SaaS — you buy it, it's yours.
What exactly do I get?
A statically linked, self-contained executable. It runs an HTTPS server (with auto-issued TLS certificates), a web UI for searching logs, a REST API for ingesting them, plus Linux and BSD agents for shipping system and service logs.
Is my log data secure?
Your data lives on your server, behind your firewall, on disks you own. We never see it. The web UI is served over auto-issued TLS, and ingest tokens authenticate every log source. There's no telemetry or call-home.
What about retention and storage?
You decide. Logs are written to SQLite databases on local disk in an open, readable format. Set a retention window in the UI, or let logs accumulate for as long as you have disk. Backups are just files.
What log sources are supported?
Anything that can make an HTTP POST. We ship agents for Linux and BSD that tail systemd, syslog, files, and journald out of the box. Apps in any language can ship logs in one line of code via the REST API.
Does it scale?
Surprisingly well. It concurrently ingests logs and batch-writes to SQLite databases with WAL enabled. Central Logging is designed for small businesses doing under 10GB / day. If you have petabytes, this isn't for you.
How does this compare to Loki, ELK, or SigNoz?
Those are powerful, but they're multi-component systems that need real operations work — Loki + Promtail + Grafana + object storage, or Elasticsearch + Logstash + Kibana, or several Docker containers with a database. Central Logging is one file, designed for teams that don't want to run a logging stack.
What happens if my disk fills up?
Central Logging will alert you long before that — disk-usage thresholds are one of the built-in alert rules. You can also configure retention to auto-prune older logs.
Is there an installer or dependencies required?
No installer, no runtime, no dependencies. It's a standalone static executable. Run it once and it provisions a TLS cert and a systemd service for you.
Is there a demo?
Yes — the free download is a fully functional system. No credit card needed. Watch the demo video above, then try it on your own server in five minutes.
Can I get a refund if I don't like it?
Yes. 14-day, no-questions-asked refund policy.
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