Turn messy incident notes into a clean timeline.
Gaps shown, nothing invented.
Paste the Slack fragments, log lines, timestamps and scribbled notes you gathered during an incident. Logtrace returns a structured timeline — what happened, when, what was tried, and the moments nobody wrote anything down. All in your browser, no account needed.
How it works
01
Paste your raw material
Everything you scribbled during the incident. Timestamps, Slack snippets, log lines, SSH commands, thoughts. The more fragmented the better — the tool is built for the mess.
02
Get a structured timeline
Time-ordered entries with what was tried. Notes attach to the nearest preceding timestamp. Action lines and critical events are highlighted. Nothing you wrote is changed.
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See where your notes go quiet
Periods with no entries are marked as gaps — amber, visible, labeled with the time window. You see exactly what you don't know, instead of being left to guess.
What it does (and does not)
- Parses timestamps in common formats — HH:MM, HH:MM:SS, and ISO 8601
- Groups untimed lines under the nearest prior timestamp as context or notes
- Flags gaps of five minutes or more as silent periods, with duration shown
- Highlights critical entries (alerts, errors, root cause) and resolved items
- Exports to plain text, Markdown, and JSON — no account, no connection to your monitoring systems
- Does not connect to PagerDuty, Slack, Datadog or any other service. It reads what you paste, nothing more
- Does not page anyone, send email alerts, or trigger automation. It formats text
Sample output
Timeline — 8 entries, 2 gaps
2026-08-15
10:15 — Alert: CPU at 95% on api-03
10:17 — Checked dashboard, saw traffic spike
10:20 — Restarted nginx on api-03
10:25 — Checked logs, found DB connection pool exhausted
Gap: 5 minutes — no entries between 10:25 and 10:30
10:30 — Scaled up database connections from 20 to 50
10:32 — Traffic returned to normal
10:45 — Alert resolved
Gap: 1 hour, 15 minutes — no entries between 10:45 and 12:00
12:00 — Root cause identified: connection pool setting was unchanged in deployment config
“Logtrace formats what you paste and shows where your notes go quiet. A postmortem that invents a confident narrative is worse than one with honest holes.”
Turn today's incident into a timeline in seconds.
No account needed. No data leaves your browser. Just paste your notes and see what actually happened.
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