Cheap and dirty: how to collect logs from remote clients over HTTP

2025-11-12

Do you have an application spread across hundreds of client devices? Or a fleet of IoT sensors sending telemetry? Sooner or later the question arises: “What’s actually happening over there?” And right after it — “How do I collect logs without bankrupting myself on Splunk or Datadog?”

If your clients can send HTTP requests, you already have ninety percent of the solution. HTTP(S) is a universal and firewall-friendly protocol. All we need is a listener (endpoint) that will accept these logs.