Self-hosted observability
LogForge documentation
Install LogForge, connect a Remote Agent and find your first logs and metrics. Your monitoring data stays in your deployment.
Start here
Choose your installation.
Both options run in your infrastructure. Choose online for internet-connected servers, or air-gapped for servers isolated from the internet.
Install online Install air-gappedAlready connected? Open your first workload.Get started
- Welcome to LogForge
Understand the server, Remote Agents and your accounts.
- Monitor your first workload
Follow one Docker workload from discovery to logs and metrics.
Install and connect
- Requirements
Check the host, storage, network and release package before you start.
- Install online
Clone the public repository and run one command to install the signed release.
- Install air-gapped
Transfer an offline bundle to a server without internet access.
- Networking and certificates
Choose reachable addresses and establish trusted HTTPS.
- Connect a Docker host
Connect a Remote Agent to collect logs and metrics from your host.
- Connect a Kubernetes cluster
Select the intended cluster and verify the generated Helm installation.
Use LogForge
- Find and follow logs
Understand retained history, live logs and collection gaps.
- Inspect workload metrics
Read resource use and check when observations were collected.
- Use Terminal and host files
Open an authorized container shell or set up restricted Linux host access.
- Test notification delivery
Configure a destination and confirm one real test message arrives.
- Create your first alert
Test a sample rule, enable its notification and verify the outcome.
Administration
- Keep your deployment data
Preserve installation identity, persistent storage and recovery material.
- Manage usage reporting
Review default aggregate reporting and inspect or change the preference.
- Manage people and access
Create a Member and verify their environment access.
- Update and recover a release
Review a supported update, verify progress and recover an incomplete operation.
Licensing and billing
- Editions and activation
Use Community or activate Business through connected or offline licensing.
Troubleshooting
- When data is missing
Check connection, collection and query state in a useful order.
Reference
- Installation settings
Set addresses, ports and storage in operator.env before startup.
- Supported environments
Check runtime, collection and interactive-access boundaries.