Bilis
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Bilis, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Bilis's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 projects/team · 5 members/team · 100,000 log records plus spans/day · 30-day log and span retention · 1,200 ingest requests/minute/API key · soft limits |
| Self-hosted | Free | Runs on your own hardware · no plan, allowance, or usage meter |
| Team | Priced on request | More projects and members · longer retention · volume sized to usage · priority support |
The facts
Each one read from Bilis's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Archive export
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Coding agents
- Claude Code telemetry can be ingested, and an assistant can search logs and open traces through a read-only MCP connection.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Data location
- The hosted service stores account and log data on OVH servers in France, within the EU.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- bothchecked 23 Sep 2026
- Durability
- A successful ingest response means data was queued, not durably written, and the maker advises keeping another copy of important data.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Ingestion
- It accepts OTLP/HTTP logs and traces in JSON or protobuf, plain JSON records, and Sentry SDK envelopes over HTTP.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Bilis works with OpenTelemetry exporters and existing Sentry SDKs through its HTTP ingest endpoints.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker describes Bilis as a tool for teams that run software in production and want to operate observability on hardware they own.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Limits
- Bilis v1 does not include alerting, user-defined dashboards, saved searches, eBPF collection, S3 tiering, ClickHouse replication, or OTLP over gRPC.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Live log tailing
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Log search
- The viewer supports full-text search over log bodies and filters for time, project, service, and severity; text matching is case-insensitive and whole-word only.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Bilis stores and searches application logs and traces, with a web viewer for filtering, live tail, and trace inspection.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Retention
- Hosted log records are retained for 30 days and then deleted automatically; the free plan also states 30-day retention for logs and spans.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- The maker states that hosted data is encrypted in transit with TLS and at rest, API keys are stored as hashes, production access uses multi-factor authentication, and project data is isolated at the query layer.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Storage format
- Logs and spans are stored in OpenTelemetry-compatible ClickHouse tables that the maker describes as portable and readable by other tools.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Structured log parsing
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Support
- Hosted service support is by email on business days; the Team plan offers priority support through a direct line.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Trace viewer
- Traces are shown as span waterfalls, with logs and traces linked to each other by trace ID.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Košice, Slovakiachecked 19 Oct 2026
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