I Built a Log Analyzer That Replaced My $200/Month Splunk Subscription

I Built a Log Analyzer That Replaced My $200/Month Splunk Subscription Here's what I was doing: Every morning, I'd log into Splunk to check production errors. Cost: $200/month. Splunk's pitch: "Real-time log aggregation!" "Search billions of events!" "Enterprise analytics!" What I actually needed: Find ERROR logs in my production server See what happened in the last hour Debug without manually SSHing into servers Splunk was overkill. And expensive. So I spent 3 hours building Log Analyzer CLI — a tool that parses gigabytes of logs, finds errors, patterns, and anomalies instantly. Result: Never paid Splunk again. Saved $2,400/year. The Problem: Enterprise Logging Costs Fortune Log aggregation tools are expensive because enterprises use them. So vendors target enterprise: Tool Cost What You Get Splunk $200+/mo Overkill for most ELK Stack $100-300/mo (self-hosted) Complex to maintain Datadog $150+/mo More than you need CloudWatch $50+/mo AWS lock-in My tool Free 80% of use cases I did the