Built a Docker log viewer for myself – turned it into a SaaS for devs like me
Hey Indie Hackers,
I’ve been running a few apps on multiple VPSs with plain Docker (no k8s, no ECS), and got tired of ssh-ing into each one just to check logs or figure out memory issues.
I didn’t want to spin up Grafana/Prometheus/ELK or some big observability stack. So I built a small agent that grabs all logs + system metrics and sends them to a central dashboard.
This turned into a little SaaS I just launched: DockStats.
🐳 Drop the agent on any Docker host – no config, it auto-discovers everything
🧾 Structured logs get parsed (level, env, app, etc.)
🧠 You can remap or inject metadata if logs are messy
🧱 Super lightweight – nothing stored locally
🔒 Encrypted in transit
Still working on search, alerting, uptime monitoring, and all that good stuff. For now, it’s free while I collect feedback.
If you’re running Docker without Kubernetes, I’d love to hear what you’re using for logs + metrics, and whether this could be useful.
Thanks!
