Logister

What Logister is

Logister is a self-hosted error-monitoring and bug-triage dashboard for teams that want to operate the software themselves. It collects errors, logs, metrics, transactions, spans, and check-ins, then groups recurring failures into issues that teams can assign and track as unresolved, resolved, ignored, or archived. Issue details can bring together request context, stack traces, occurrence history, and related logs for investigation.

Project Insights lets teams filter telemetry by time, environment, release, and custom attributes. Transaction cards summarize recent traffic with volume, throughput, P50 and P95 latency, error rate, and Apdex. Documented integrations cover Ruby, .NET, Python, JavaScript and TypeScript, Android, iOS, Cloudflare Pages, CFML, and direct HTTP. The ingestion API accepts JSON payloads with project tokens, and the CLI reads project telemetry using user-scoped access tokens.

Logister is open source under the MIT license, with versioned Docker images published through GitHub Container Registry and Docker Hub. The self-hosted plan is free. Its production baseline uses a Rails web process, PostgreSQL, Redis, and a Sidekiq worker. An optional hosted app is also described, while self-hosting is the primary product path.

Who it suits

Logister suits teams that want to monitor application telemetry and manage recurring errors in software they host themselves. It is especially relevant to teams using its documented language, platform, and direct HTTP integrations, and able to run the required Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Sidekiq services.

Limits

The free self-hosted plan is an open-source, forkable Rails app, and its documented production baseline requires Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Sidekiq. ClickHouse, S3-compatible archive storage, SMTP, and Cloudflare Turnstile are optional services for self-hosted installs.

Getting started

1. Visit https://logister.org/ to review the project and documentation.
2. Choose the free self-hosted plan at no cost.
3. Prepare a Rails web process, PostgreSQL, Redis, and a Sidekiq worker.
4. Use the published Docker images or the project source for a self-hosted deployment.
5. Keep secrets in a provider secret store and put HTTPS in front of the app before public exposure.
6. Connect telemetry through a documented integration or send project-token JSON to the ingestion API.

Verdict

Choose Logister if your team wants an open-source dashboard for telemetry review and error triage that it can self-host. Its free plan costs nothing, but the production baseline requires a Rails process, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Sidekiq. Teams looking for a hosted-first path should note that the hosted app is described as optional.