Central Logging
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Central Logging, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Central Logging's own pricing page, checked 2 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free trial | Free | 10,000 logs / day · One user, 10 machines · Every feature fully working · Free updates within 1.x |
| Unlimited license | $187, paid once | Unlimited logs, users, machines · Lifetime use · Free updates within 1.x · 14-day no-questions refund · One-time payment |
The facts
Each one read from Central Logging's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Archive export
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Backups
- The product supports nightly S3 backups to AWS S3 or an S3-compatible server, retaining those backups for up to 15 days.checked 2 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- It runs as a statically linked, self-contained executable with no installer, runtime, or dependencies.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- self-hostedchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- The site documents log shipping guides for Nginx, Caddy, Docker, Kubernetes, Proxmox, PostgreSQL, rsyslog, systemd, and Python.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker targets small teams without a platform team, including indie SaaS founders, agencies, bootstrapped teams, and homelab users.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Live log tailing
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Log inputs
- Linux and BSD agents collect systemd, syslog, files, and journald logs, and applications can send logs through the REST API.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Log pipelines
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Log retention
- 15checked 22 Sep 2026
- Monitoring
- Built-in alerts cover application errors, security events, disk and host health, cron heartbeats, uptime, and latency.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Central Logging is a self-hosted logging, alerting, cron monitoring, and uptime system installed on the customer's server.checked 2 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Search
- Users can search logs across sources with standard SQL and full-text search, save queries as alert rules, and export results to CSV.checked 2 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Structured log parsing
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Support and refund
- The maker offers a 14-day no-questions-asked refund and states there are no support contracts.checked 2 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- The site lists Linux amd64, Linux arm64, and macOS Apple Silicon downloads, and also describes agents for Linux and BSD.checked 2 Oct 2026
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