Retrospective
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Retrospective, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Retrospective's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Personal License | $92, paid once | For private persons only · One Year Free Updates · One Year Support |
| Company License | $265, paid once | For companies & organizations · One Year Free Updates · One Year Support |
The facts
Each one read from Retrospective's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Archive export
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Evaluation
- The product may be downloaded and evaluated for free, but a license is required for continued use.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Export and visualization
- Results can be exported as HTML, text, CSV, Excel, or JSON, and the maker also describes exporting to Koia for visualization.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations and limits
- Retrospective reads files written by syslog servers such as WinSyslog but does not receive syslog messages itself.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The FAQ describes use cases including ad-hoc log search, production support, software development, and setups where centralized collection or indexing is impractical.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Live log tailing
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Local data handling
- Collected data is kept in memory or paged to a database, and saved configuration profiles are encrypted.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Log sources
- It collects log data from local files, remote files over SSH, Docker containers, and Kubernetes.checked 11 Oct 2026
- No agents required
- The maker says Retrospective requires no log collector agents or additional software for its log search and monitoring workflows.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Retrospective searches and monitors large collections of log files from local and remote sources.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Querying and structuring
- Users can filter collected logs with Retrospective Query Language and define custom columns using regex or separators.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Remote access
- SSH access supports passwords or keys, client certificates, sudo/su, jump hosts, and imported PuTTY sessions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Resource controls
- The FAQ says users can control Retrospective's memory and disk storage use for large log volumes.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Search and monitor
- Search filters existing log data, while Monitor fetches matching data as it is produced.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Structured log parsing
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Support
- A Company License includes development-team support on Swiss working days from 9am to 5pm, with a guaranteed response within at most five working days.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 21 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Gümligen, Switzerlandchecked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform limit
- Since version 5.6, the maker says Windows, Mac, and Linux releases are 64-bit only.checked 11 Oct 2026
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