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Logbarn
Search, chart and keep your logs at a small-team price
- Score
- 56
- confidence 52
- Evidence
- 2
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 1
- named in sources
- First version
- 60 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2003
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Developers analyze logs and build dashboards from their desks during long troubleshooting sessions, not on the go. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Search
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About this appAI proposal
Logbarn is a log search and exploration tool for developers, DevOps engineers and system administrators on small teams. Send logs from servers and apps, search them in seconds, and turn any query into a chart or a saved view.
It is built for people who need to find what went wrong, not for large enterprise rollouts. Setup takes minutes, the query language is short, and the price is a plain monthly figure you can read before you ingest anything.
It runs as an installable web app, so you can open a saved search on a phone during an incident.
- Tagline
- Find the line that matters. Pay a price you can read.
- Voice
- PlainPracticalCalm
- Why this name
- A barn is where you store things in bulk and can still find them. Short, plain, easy to say.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Fast full-text and field search
Type words or field filters and get matching lines with context. Results stream in while the query runs.
No member yet
Short query language
A small set of pipe commands for filter, count, group and sort, with autocomplete and built-in examples.
No member yet
Charts from any query
Turn a result into a line, bar or table in one click and pin it to a dashboard.
No member yet
Saved searches and shared links
Save a query, share a link with a teammate, and open the same view on a phone.
No member yet
Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Find the line that matters. Pay a price you can read.
PricingAI proposal
Splunk's pricing page (verified) lists five paid plans from $6 to $100 a month plus a free plan. These tiers sit inside that range as a starting point to test; volumes are guesses.
Free
Free
- 1 GB ingest a month
- 3 days retention
- 1 user
Team
$19 a month
- 100 GB ingest a month
- 30 days retention
- Up to 10 users
- Email alerts
Growth
$79 a month
- 500 GB ingest a month
- 90 days retention
- Unlimited users
- Email alerts
Would you pay Team · $19 a month?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$190,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- No loop in the product. Logbarn is a tool teams use internally. Shared search links reach only teammates who already have access, so it does not spread by its own use.
- Do they become customers?
- Growth would come from content, developer communities and search. Test whether Splunk-priced-out teams sign up from migration guides and convert from the free tier.
- First customers
- Small DevOps teams of 2 to 15 engineers at startups that run their own servers and were quoted too much for Splunk.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News and dev forums: Post a write-up on moving off Splunk with a free tier link, and answer pricing threads.
- Migration guides: Publish how-to pages for exporting Splunk searches and sending the same logs to Logbarn.
- First milestone
- Ten teams send real logs on the free tier and five convert to a paid plan within 60 days.
Why people already pay for this
- Public claimSplunk has become too expensive after Cisco's acquisition
- VerifiedSplunk's pricing page lists 5 paid plans, from $6 to $100 a month, plus a free plan
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Log storage and searchColumnar store with full-text indexPostgres alone will not search large log volumes fast or cheaply.
- This app · Ingest endpointStateless HTTP and syslog receiver with queueAbsorbs bursts of log lines and writes them in batches.
RisksAI inference
- TechnicalFast search over high log volumes at a low price is hard; storage and query costs could erase the margin on heavy users.
- CommercialOther low-cost log tools exist and Splunk has a free plan. Price alone may not make teams switch.
- DataLogs can hold personal data and secrets. Customers will expect redaction, encryption and clear retention rules.
- CommercialThe evidence for the price complaint is one public claim; how many teams would move is untested.
- PlatformTeams with existing agents and dashboards need import paths or they will not move.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.