Get started with Rootprint in under five minutes

Deploy Rootprint locally and send your first logs. You need only Docker.

Install Rootprint

Download the Compose file and start it. For other options, see Docker Compose.

curl -o docker-compose.yml https://docs.rootprint.io/files/docker-compose.full.yaml
docker compose up -d

Create the admin account

Open http://localhost:8282. On first boot, Rootprint redirects you to the setup wizard. Enter the admin credentials and submit the form.

Create an ingest API key

In the sidebar, open Settings → API keys.
Click Create ingest key, give it a name, and pick the bundled otel-logs-v0_9 index.
Copy the key, then click Done. To see it again later, click the eye icon on the key’s row.

Send sample logs

Set TOKEN to your ingest API key and post two NDJSON log lines:

export TOKEN='<your-ingest-api-key>'
curl -X POST 'http://localhost:8282/api/ingest/ndjson' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/x-ndjson' \
  --data-binary @- <<EOF
{"timestamp_nanos":$(date +%s)000000000,"severity_text":"INFO","body":{"message":"User logged in"},"service_name":"frontend","attributes":{"user_id":"alice"}}
{"timestamp_nanos":$(date +%s)000000000,"severity_text":"ERROR","body":{"message":"Connection timeout"},"service_name":"api-gateway"}
EOF

Search your logs

Go back to http://localhost:8282 and select the otel-logs-v0_9 index. The two log entries you sent appear in the results. Try filtering by severity_text:ERROR to see only the error entry.

Next steps

Send logs from your apps over OTLP or the NDJSON gateway.
Learn the search query syntax to filter your logs precisely.
Set up Google OAuth to let your team sign in with their company Google accounts.

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