Overview
Choose the guide that matches your project type.
Logister provides public documentation for running your own instance first, then connecting Ruby, .NET, Python, CFML, and JavaScript apps to it. Start with self-hosting when you are planning infrastructure, or with the integration guide that matches how your application sends data today.
Logister is self-hosted and self-hostable first. The public logister.org app is a secondary hosted option; the source, GHCR and Docker Hub images, release notes, and operations docs are here so teams can run it themselves.
| Guide | Best for | Main setup path |
|---|---|---|
| Operations guides | Teams self-hosting Logister | Local development, deployment, ClickHouse, and HTTP reference |
| Ruby integration | Ruby apps and Rails services | logister-ruby gem |
| .NET integration | ASP.NET Core apps and C# services | logister-dotnet SDK with ASP.NET Core middleware |
| Python integration | FastAPI, Django, Flask, Celery, and general Python apps | logister-python package with framework helpers and Python logging support |
| CFML integration | Lucee and Adobe ColdFusion sites | cfhttp plus structured event payloads |
| JavaScript integration | JavaScript and TypeScript apps | logister-js package with optional Express middleware and console capture |
Use cases
Start from the problem or comparison your team is evaluating.
Self-hosting
Self-hosted error monitoring
Run Logister yourself with Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, SMTP/Amazon SES, optional ClickHouse, and registry images.
Comparison
Sentry alternative
Evaluate Logister when you want forkable source, owned infrastructure, grouped errors, assignment, and release context.
Comparison
Bugsnag alternative
Evaluate Logister when first-occurrence alerts, digest emails, and team-owned triage should live in your own stack.
Comparison
Bugzilla alternative
Use production error context as the start of bug ownership, not a separate manual ticket-writing step.
Operations
Docker registry self-hosting
Run versioned Docker images with separate Rails web and Sidekiq worker containers in your own infrastructure.
Workflow
Error assignment and team triage
Assign grouped production errors to teammates, filter by assignee, and keep ownership close to the event context.
Notifications
Amazon SES alert emails
Send first-occurrence alerts and daily or weekly digest emails through Rails SMTP settings backed by SES.
What Logister helps with
Use Logister to move from raw events to decisions.
Overview
See cross-app signals before drilling in
The dashboard surfaces event mix, needs-attention summaries, and active project signals across the apps you monitor.
Triage
See which errors still need attention
Grouped issues, status filters, search, and occurrence history help your team decide what to fix, ignore, archive, or reopen.
Investigate
Open one event and get the surrounding context
Runtime-aware details, request context, release metadata, and related logs keep the investigation close to the problem.
Operate
Watch performance and project lifecycle
Transaction metrics, release health, check-in monitors, archived projects, and notification preferences help teams operate the instance cleanly.
Read the product guide for the user-focused tour of what teams can do in Logister.
Guides
Everything you need to get from zero to a working event feed.
Start here
Set up your first project
Create a project, choose the right integration type, generate an API key, and send your first event.
Product guide
See what your team can do in Logister
Use this guide to understand the dashboard, inbox, event details, performance views, monitors, notifications, project lifecycle, sharing, and self-hosted operations.
Operations
Self-host Logister
Use the operations docs for local boot, deployment configuration, ClickHouse, and HTTP payload reference.
Ruby
Install the Ruby package
Use the Ruby integration guide when your app already runs on Ruby or Rails.
.NET
Install the .NET SDK
Use the .NET integration guide for ASP.NET Core apps, C# services, custom metrics, and check-ins.
Python
Install the package
Use the Python integration guide for FastAPI, Django, Flask, Celery, shared-client Python apps, and native Python logging capture.
CFML
Send direct payloads
Use the CFML guide for Lucee or Adobe ColdFusion apps that talk to Logister over HTTP.
JavaScript
Install the npm package
Use the JavaScript guide for JavaScript and TypeScript apps using the logister-js package, with optional Express middleware and console capture when you need them.
Getting started next
Follow the shortest path to your first event.
- Create a project and choose the right integration type.
- Generate an API key and store it immediately.
- Pick the Ruby, .NET, Python, CFML, or JavaScript guide based on your application stack.
- Use the HTTP API page when you need the exact request shape.
- Send one known-good event before broadening instrumentation.
Growing the docs
This is the base for a standalone documentation site.
This static export is designed so the docs can live separately from either a self-hosted Logister instance or the secondary hosted app. It keeps the same information
architecture as the product docs while removing the app runtime dependency, and includes a machine-readable
/llms.txt index for AI tools that need the public docs map.
The fuller /llms-full.txt file gives agents a denser product, operations, release, and comparison context.
- Integration guides stay public and easy to share.
- Operations docs no longer need to live in the README.
- Future product docs can be added as plain HTML in this directory.
Credits
Interface icon attribution
Logister's product interface uses Streamline Freehand free icons by Streamline, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
