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About LogTide

LogTide is open-source log management and SIEM for teams that want to own their data. You can run it on your own servers or use the managed EU cloud, and the core is the same in both.

Why it exists

LogTide started on November 26, 2025, with a first commit and a dev.to post a few days later: I built an Open Source Datadog alternative because ELK was eating my RAM. The goal has not changed since: logs, traces and threat detection in one product, without an Elasticsearch cluster to babysit.

The numbers from the first year, good and bad, are in Logtide: 1 Year After the First Commit.

Who builds it

LogTide is created and maintained by Giuseppe Pollio, who also writes the articles on this blog. Giuseppe is an AWS Community Builder and publishes technical posts on dev.to. Most of the code so far has been written by one person, with contributions from the community on GitHub.

How the project is run

  • The core is open source under the AGPLv3 license, and development happens in public.
  • Release notes for every version are in the changelog.
  • Vulnerabilities can be reported privately to [email protected].
  • Company and data processing details are in the terms and the data processing agreement.

Where to go next

Start with the getting started guide, see how LogTide compares in the comparison pages, or get in touch.