ZinaLog

A lightweight, self-hosted logging server with a web dashboard without the complexity of ELK or Grafana.

Quick Start

Requires Node.js 20+

npx create-zinalog my-app
cd my-app
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:4000

Docker

https://zinalog.com/docs/getting-started

Features

• HTTP log ingestion (POST /api/logs)
• Real-time log streaming
• Dashboard for logs, errors, and metrics
• Role-based access (admin, operator, viewer)
• API key authentication with IP restrictions
• Rate limiting
• Alerts (email, Slack, Telegram, Discord)
• SQLite-based storage no external DB

Data Persistence

Logs are stored locally in ./data on your machine, not deleted on docker compose down -v.

If you hit permission issues:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER data

Documentation

Full docs at zinalog.com