Building Kelops — simple log monitoring for solo devs and small teams ($10/mo)

Hey! 👋

I'm building Kelops — a log monitoring and analysis service for developers who don't need (or can't afford) the complexity of Datadog, New Relic, and similar observability platforms.

The problem: if you're a solo dev or a small team, you don't need 50 dashboards and a $500/mo bill. You just need to know when something breaks — without drowning in noise.

Important: this isn't meant to compete with giants like Datadog — I'm not trying to match them feature-for-feature. Kelops is for people who want a simple tool with no complex setup, not a full-blown observability platform.

What's already built:
Ingest API — send logs from your apps
Log explorer UI — search and filter logs

What's in progress:
Traces — follow a request's path through the system
Log stream analysis, to surface only what actually matters
AI-based error grouping — recurring bugs get clustered automatically
Notifications in Telegram and Slack: error spikes, new error types, service downtime, periodic summaries
Authentication (not there yet)

Focus: fast setup — minimal configuration so you're getting logs in within a couple of minutes, not half a day of config wrangling.

Stack: Go + Kafka + ClickHouse on the backend, Next.js on the frontend — built for scale, priced for solo devs.

Pricing: ~$10/month. That's it. No enterprise tiers, no "contact sales."

There's already a live site, but it's still under active development — it may go down, and there's no auth yet, so think of it as a preview rather than a stable product. https://kelops.dev

Would love feedback on:
Which notification channels matter most to you — Telegram, Slack, email, something else?
What's the #1 thing stopping you from setting up log monitoring right now?