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pooml (Poor Man's Logger)
Single-binary logs and metrics on SQLite, queried with SQL
pooml is a logs and metrics server that runs on peanuts: one small binary, happy on the cheapest VPS. Point your services at it, and five minutes after install you have logs, metrics, dashboards, and alerts on your phone. You query it all in plain SQL, the language you and your AI assistant already know. Your data stays in three SQLite files you can copy or open with any SQLite tool. Open source (AGPL).
Hello there, Product Hunt!
I built pooml for an app I run in production, for two reasons. I wanted logs and metrics that are easy and cheap to set up and run. And I didn't want to learn yet another query language: SQL is something every developer already speaks, so pooml is SQL all the way down. Even the metrics shortcut in the video just writes SQL you can read and edit.
That also means your AI assistant speaks it. With the MCP server, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or any MCP client can query your pooml for you. Ask "what broke last night?" and it writes the query. It's read-only, and off until you turn it on.
pooml is small on purpose, and I plan to keep it that way. It's a good fit if you value simplicity over features.
If setup takes you more than 5 minutes, tell me where you got stuck.
About pooml (Poor Man's Logger) on Product Hunt
“Single-binary logs and metrics on SQLite, queried with SQL”
pooml (Poor Man's Logger) was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #82 on the daily leaderboard. pooml is a logs and metrics server that runs on peanuts: one small binary, happy on the cheapest VPS. Point your services at it, and five minutes after install you have logs, metrics, dashboards, and alerts on your phone. You query it all in plain SQL, the language you and your AI assistant already know. Your data stays in three SQLite files you can copy or open with any SQLite tool. Open source (AGPL).
On the analytics side, pooml (Poor Man's Logger) competes within Open Source, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 631.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how pooml (Poor Man's Logger) performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted pooml (Poor Man's Logger)?
pooml (Poor Man's Logger) was hunted by Myko Nordy. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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