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What are your favorite cloud-based logging providers which do not require a business email to sign up? (kbin.run)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/programming

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I have been creating a bot using Node and would love to have a cloud-based logging solution to store my logs (since Fly.io monitoring isn't the greatest and doesn't store logs more than ~100 at a time). So far, I've looked at:

Coralogix
Logz.io
Sumo Logic

Sadly, all of these require a business email.

Since I'm doing a small personal project, I don't quite have one and I would prefer not to have to get one. I would also prefer the logging service be as simple as possible - this is a very small project and isn't customer-facing, so it really only needs the logging features (stuff like metrics are not needed and I'm handling exception logging with Sentry).

Lastly, it would be cool if it was cheap / free!

Thank you!

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[–] metacat 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Have these services actually turned you down? Usually this is a marketing thing where they prefer work email on forms to assess commercial opportunity, but I’d be surprised if they refuse a personal email.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Usually, I get blocked on the sign-up page. For example, on the Coralogix sign-up page, it won't let me create my account with an email with a @gmail.com extension

[–] metacat 2 points 9 months ago

Buying a domain that includes email would probably work, or just getting a less commonly used email service. Fastmail is good and has many alternative domains.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why would you need specifically "cloud" logging for that? Spinning up grafana and loki is rather trivial in the modern containerized world and that'd cover 90% of what you want from logs. Neither is a resource hog, too, it's so much better that e.g. the ELK stack for logs that you only look through occasionally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thank you for this advice. I actually ended up signing up for Grafana and Loki, however Loki and Grafana Cloud Logs were both overkill for my use case. As a result, I ended up going with Loggly after consulting a Reddit thread and that has been working perfectly. Thank you again, though!

[–] __init__ 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Have you looked into grafana cloud? I haven’t used it myself but they have a free tier. Or if you’re open to self-hosting you can run loki and grafana yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I ended up signing up for Grafana and Loki, however Loki and Grafana Cloud Logs were both overkill for my use case. As a result, I ended up going with Loggly after consulting a Reddit thread and that has been working perfectly. Thank you, though!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Does render fit the bill? I'm using it to run a mastodon bot using Node and in free instances it stores logs for 7 days iirc.