Self-Hosted Papertrail Alternatives

Papertrail is not available as a self-hosted solution but there are plenty of alternatives for power users and business that want to host a solution on-premise. The best Self-Hosted alternative is Grafana, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Papertrail and 12 are available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted alternatives to Papertrail are Open Web Analytics, Graylog, Sentry and Grafana Loki.

Papertrail alternatives are mainly Web Log Analyzers but may also be Log Management Tools or Error Loggers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Papertrail.

Papertrail

Paid • Proprietary
Web Log Analyzer

Hosted log management for servers, apps, and cloud services. Papertrail aggregates syslog, Text log files, Apache, MySQL,...

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Grafana
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Cloudron
Node.JS
51 Grafana alternatives
Grafana provides a powerful and elegant way to create, explore, and share dashboards and data with your team and the world.
- - Grafana is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Papertrail.
- - Grafana is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Papertrail.
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Metrics
Web-Based
Web interface
CPU Monitoring
Dashboard
Hardware Monitoring
Data visualization
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nopro404
Papertrail is for logs Grafana is for metrics
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Open Web Analytics
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Free • Open Source
Web Analytics Service
Self-Hosted
139 Open Web Analytics alternatives
Open Web Analytics - Web Analytics – Open Source Web Analytics Framework

The Open Web Analytics (OWA) framework provides a generic set of PHP and HTTP APIs that application developers can use to integrate web analytics into any application. The Framework also has built-in suppor.
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Open Web Analytics Features
1. Privacy focusedOpen Web Analytics is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
Graylog
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Free • Open Source
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Java
59 Graylog alternatives
Graylog is an open source syslog implementation that stores your logs in Elasticsearch. It consists of a server and web interface written in Java that accepts your syslog messages via TCP or UDP (or GELF messages) and stores it in the database.
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Graylog Features
Log Indexing
Logging
Sentry
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Freemium • Proprietary
Error Logger
Network Monitor
Online
Self-Hosted
56 Sentry alternatives
Sentry’s real-time error tracking gives you insight into production deployments and information to reproduce and fix crashes—before your users contact you.
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Sentry Features
Performance Monitoring
Exception Tracking
Real-time analytics
Application Performance Monitoring
Grafana Loki
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Free • Open Source
Web Log Analyzer
Log Management Tool
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58 Grafana Loki alternatives
Grafana Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate. It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream.
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Grafana Integration
SigNoz
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Error Logger
Web Log Analyzer
Self-Hosted
180 SigNoz alternatives
Open source observability platform. SigNoz helps developers find issues in their deployed applications & solve them quickly.
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SigNoz Features
Application Monitoring
APM monitoring
Server Monitoring
Nagios Log Server
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Web Log Analyzer
Log Management Tool
Log Analyzer
Windows
Linux
Online
Self-Hosted
68 Nagios Log Server alternatives
Nagios Log Server is a powerful enterprise-class log monitoring and management application that allows organizations to quickly and easily view, sort, and configure logs from any source on any given network.
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Nagios Log Server Features
Data visualization
Logging
Data analytics
Hardware Monitoring
logsniffer
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49 logsniffer alternatives
logsniffer is a sophisticated open source web tool for viewing, monitoring and analyzing log data. It provides a modern and intuitive end to end web interface and log viewer to keep an eye on all your logs - in one place and in real-time.
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Logging
Discontinued
logsniffer is no longer maintained. Last version, 0.5.6, released in July 2016, can be still downloaded from GitHub.
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vit1251
The big problem of comparison; Papertrail is web based and logsniffer is a self-hosted, standalone application.
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Bugfender
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Freemium • Proprietary
Error Logger
Android Development Tool
Online
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
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16 Bugfender alternatives
Bugfender is a log storage service for application developers. Bugfender collects everything happening in the application, even if it doesn’t crash, in order to reproduce and resolve bugs more effectively and provide better customer support.
- - Bugfender is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to Papertrail.
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Logging
Humio
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Paid • Proprietary
Web Log Analyzer
Log Management Tool
Linux
Online
Self-Hosted
24 Humio alternatives
Humio unlocks the power of having your system’s data at your fingertips by empowering you to answer any question you need to do your job. Get a free trial today.
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Humio Features
Real-time analytics
log.io
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Free • Proprietary
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42 log.io alternatives
Harvesters watch log files for changes, send new log messages to the server, which broadcasts to web clients. Log messages are tagged with stream, node, and log level information based on user configuration.
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log.io Features
Logging
Server Monitoring
Discontinued
Hasn't been updated in four years. See https://github.com/NarrativeScience/Log.io
Logpoint
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Paid • Proprietary
Log Management Tool
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Self-Hosted
50 Logpoint alternatives
Logpoint provides a converged cybersecurity platform that empowers organizations to thrive in a world of evolving threats. Established in 2012, Logpoint has consistently championed the mission of fortifying the digital heart of organizations.
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