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Central Logging

centrallogging.com

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Spec sheet

Purpose
Central Logging is a self-hosted logging, alerting, cron monitoring, and uptime system installed on the customer's server.Read 2 Oct 2026 · centrallogging.com
Intended users
The maker targets small teams without a platform team, including indie SaaS founders, agencies, bootstrapped teams, and homelab users.Read 2 Oct 2026 · centrallogging.com
Platforms
The site lists Linux amd64, Linux arm64, and macOS Apple Silicon downloads, and also describes agents for Linux and BSD.Read 2 Oct 2026 · centrallogging.com
Deployment
It runs as a statically linked, self-contained executable with no installer, runtime, or dependencies.Read 2 Oct 2026 · centrallogging.com
Free plan
YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · centrallogging.com
Integrations
The site documents log shipping guides for Nginx, Caddy, Docker, Kubernetes, Proxmox, PostgreSQL, rsyslog, systemd, and Python.Read 2 Oct 2026 · centrallogging.com
Archive export
YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · centrallogging.com
Backups
The product supports nightly S3 backups to AWS S3 or an S3-compatible server, retaining those backups for up to 15 days.Read 2 Oct 2026 · centrallogging.com
Data security
The maker says log data stays on the customer's server, the web UI uses auto-issued TLS, ingest tokens authenticate sources, and the software has no telemetry or call-home.Read 2 Oct 2026 · centrallogging.com
Live log tailing
YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · centrallogging.com
Log inputs
Linux and BSD agents collect systemd, syslog, files, and journald logs, and applications can send logs through the REST API.Read 2 Oct 2026 · centrallogging.com
Log pipelines
YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · centrallogging.com
Log retention
15Read 22 Sep 2026 · centrallogging.com
Monitoring
Built-in alerts cover application errors, security events, disk and host health, cron heartbeats, uptime, and latency.Read 2 Oct 2026 · centrallogging.com
Scale limit
Central Logging runs on one node and is designed for teams under roughly 10GB of daily ingest; the maker says it is unsuitable for horizontal scale or terabytes per day.Read 2 Oct 2026 · centrallogging.com
Search
Users can search logs across sources with standard SQL and full-text search, save queries as alert rules, and export results to CSV.Read 2 Oct 2026 · centrallogging.com
Storage and retention
Logs are stored in local SQLite databases; retention is configurable per source and defaults to 15 days with older entries cleaned automatically.Read 2 Oct 2026 · centrallogging.com
Structured log parsing
YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · centrallogging.com
Support and refund
The maker offers a 14-day no-questions-asked refund and states there are no support contracts.Read 2 Oct 2026 · centrallogging.com

Plans and prices

Free trial Free 10,000 logs / day · One user, 10 machines · Every feature fully working · Free updates within 1.x Read 2 Oct 2026 · centrallogging.com
Unlimited license $187 a month One-time payment, lifetime use Unlimited logs, users, machines · Lifetime use · Free updates within 1.x · 14-day no-questions refund Read 22 Sep 2026 · centrallogging.com
Unlimited license $187, paid once One-time payment Unlimited logs, users, machines · Lifetime use · Free updates within 1.x · 14-day no-questions refund Read 2 Oct 2026 · centrallogging.com

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