You don't need all that.

You're not Google.

Datadog wants $100/month. Sentry wants $26/month. New Relic, Splunk, Elastic—they're all building for companies with DevOps teams and compliance requirements.

You're running a SaaS with 500 users. A side project that makes $2k/month. An internal tool for your team. You don't need distributed tracing across 47 microservices. You need to know when something breaks.

Most software problems are simpler than the industry pretends. An error happened. Where? When? How often? That's it. You don't need a "platform."

Your data. Your server.

Every SaaS error tracker reads your stack traces. They see your file paths, your function names, your user IDs. Some "anonymize" it. Some sell insights. Some just store it forever because storage is cheap and data is valuable.

Self-hosted means your errors stay on your server. No vendor has access. No "anonymous telemetry." No third-party subprocessors in your privacy policy.

When a customer asks "who can see our error logs?" The answer: "only us."

One container. SQLite. Done.

The industry loves complexity. Kubernetes clusters. Redis for caching. Elasticsearch for search. Kafka for "event streaming." PostgreSQL replicas. Load balancers. Service meshes.

LogNorth is one Docker container. SQLite for storage. Runs on a $5 VPS. No external dependencies. No cluster to manage. No infrastructure team required.

Boring technology. The kind that still works in 10 years. The kind you can understand in an afternoon. The kind that lets you sleep at night.

No subscription treadmill.

SaaS pricing is designed to extract maximum value over time. "Free tier" until you need it. Then $29/month. Then $99/month. Then "contact sales."

LogNorth is $100 once. That's it. Not $100/month forever. Not per-seat. Not per-event. One price. You own it.

In 5 years, you'll have paid $0 more. In 10 years, $0 more. The math is simple because the model is simple.

Built for people who ship alone.

Most tools are built for teams. Dashboards for managers. Permissions for enterprises. Integrations with tools you don't use.

LogNorth is built for the solo developer. The indie hacker. The small team without a DevOps person. The founder who writes code and talks to customers and does everything else too.

No onboarding calls. No sales demos. No "implementation specialists." docker run and you're done.

Your AI knows your codebase. Now it knows your logs.

Claude Code, Cursor, Codex can query your production logs directly.

"Why are payments failing?"
"What's the error rate on sign_up?"
"Show me checkout errors from the last hour."

Your AI reads your logs. Finds the issue. You fix the code. Never leave your editor.

Ask a question. Get an answer. Fix the bug. That's the workflow.