Purl
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Purl, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Purl's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Unlimited servers & agents · Unlimited users · Unlimited alert rules · Unlimited saved searches · Retention limited only by your own storage · Community support |
| Pro | $39 a month | Everything in Free · Custom dashboards · AI query assistant and log analysis · Ingest pipelines · Backup & restore · Elasticsearch-compatible API · Kubernetes monitoring · Webhook alerts · Priority email support · 1 license activation per key · Monthly |
| Enterprise | $199 a month | Everything in Pro · SSO / SAML 2.0 · LDAP / Active Directory · Audit logs & compliance · Dedicated support engineer · 1 license activation per key · Monthly |
The facts
Each one read from Purl's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Alert integrations
- The Free plan includes Telegram and Slack alerts; Pro adds webhook alerts.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Analytics
- The analytics dashboard reports health, query performance, ingestion, latency percentiles and storage metrics in real time.checked 8 Oct 2026
- API and limits
- The installation guide documents API key authentication and rate limiting at 1,000 requests per minute.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Authentication
- Log ingestion uses customer-configured API keys, while dashboard users authenticate with server-side session cookies.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Compliance limits
- Purl states it is not SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certified, has no HIPAA BAA, and has no third-party penetration test or bug bounty programme.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Container support
- Purl supports Kubernetes DaemonSet deployment, automatic pod and container metadata, Docker, containerd, and Kubernetes labels.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- self-hostedchecked 23 Sep 2026
- Deployment requirements
- The installation guide lists Linux server requirements of Ubuntu 20.04+, Debian 11+ or CentOS 8+, with at least 512 MB RAM and one CPU core.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Enterprise identity
- SSO / SAML 2.0 and LDAP / Active Directory are Enterprise features.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Live log tailing
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Log collection
- The Vector-based agent collects logs from /var/log/, systemd journal and Docker containers and ships them to the Purl server.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Log pipelines
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Paid from
- 39checked 23 Sep 2026
- Pattern analysis
- Purl automatically clusters logs into patterns using typed placeholders and reports occurrence counts.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Product
- Purl is lightweight, self-hosted log aggregation for searching and analyzing infrastructure logs.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Search
- Its KQL-style search supports field autocomplete, boolean operators, wildcards, facets, time histograms and saved searches.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Self-hosting and data
- The Purl server, ClickHouse database and dashboard run on infrastructure the customer controls, and log data is not transmitted to purlogs.com.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Structured log parsing
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Free-plan limits
- The Free plan has unlimited servers, agents, users, alert rules and saved searches, while log retention is limited by the customer's own storage.checked 8 Oct 2026
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