Amir Raminfar
Amir Raminfar is an individual software engineer, engineering manager, mentor, and open-source creator—not an organization. He builds useful software and maintains open-source developer tools, most notably Dozzle, while leading Netflix's Discovery Platform team.
At a Glance
- Self-hosting and homelab enthusiasts
- Individual developers
- DevOps and SRE teams
- Teams operating Docker, Swarm, or Kubernetes
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AI Tools by Amir Raminfar
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Dozzle
Open Source Docker Log Viewer
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Latest News
Dozzle v11.1.3 released, adding bulk container updates, automatic updates for labelled containers, UI agent setup with optional private certificates, and additional integrations/icons.
Dozzle v11.1.2 released, including a setup-wizard disable option, MCP OAuth sign-in, and additional authentication and UI updates.
Dozzle v11.1.1 released with expanded OIDC scopes, improved host/stat interfaces, more service icons, text-prefixed JSON parsing, and PWA updates.
Dozzle v11.1.0 released with an OIDC authentication provider, certificate-generation support for agents, host selection improvements, and expanded integrations.
Products & Services
Lightweight web UI for real-time Docker logs across Docker, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes; includes live metrics, structured-log parsing, stack-trace grouping, multi-host support, alerts, webhooks, authentication, shell access, container actions, and an embedded SQL engine.
Optional managed layer for self-hosted Dozzle instances, adding AI-summarized and grouped alerts, daily infrastructure/error digests, usage history, and a chat agent accessible through Slack, Telegram, or Discord.
Native macOS disk-space visualizer written in SwiftUI; displays an interactive donut of disk usage and flags reclaimable items such as node_modules and caches.
Rust terminal UI for watching Docker containers across hosts, including live CPU, memory, and network metrics, with Dozzle integration.
Market Position
Dozzle is positioned as a lightweight, fast, self-hosted alternative to heavier log stacks such as ELK and Loki and to the basic one-container-at-a-time docker logs workflow. Its differentiators are installation in minutes, a single binary, no database or agent, logs remaining on the user's network, and a unified UI for logs, metrics, multi-host environments, shell access, and alerts.
Leadership
Founders
Amir Raminfar
Software engineer and engineering leader; studied computer science at George Washington University, began at AOL, led engineering for Opower's Home Energy Reports, co-founded Tilofy in 2014, joined Google in 2019, and is currently a manager at Netflix.
Founding Story
Amir says Dozzle began as a weekend project to solve a personal problem: viewing Docker logs in a browser without installing a heavy ELK- or Loki-style stack. He wanted something easy to install, with no agent, database, or account required; it grew through word of mouth into a widely used open-source project.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Dozzle core is free and MIT-licensed, self-hosted open source. Dozzle Cloud is an optional subscription managed service, with payment handled through Stripe; the creator also accepts voluntary financial support through Buy Me a Coffee.
Pricing Tiers
Alert triage, smart alerts, search indexing, stats monitoring, every channel, remote control, and unlimited MCP access; the pricing page describes 10 GB and 24-hour search/stat retention and weekly proactive review after the initial period.
Everything in Free plus proactive daily log analysis, full findings, live container inspection, fixes, and deeper investigations; 50 GB and 30-day search/stat retention.
Pro features for up to five people with shared team activity; 100 GB and 30-day search/stat retention.
Target Markets
- Self-hosting and homelab enthusiasts
- Individual developers
- DevOps and SRE teams
- Teams operating Docker, Swarm, or Kubernetes
- Small teams wanting managed AI-assisted log triage
- Developer and local Docker debugging
- Homelab and self-hosted infrastructure monitoring
- Production incident triage
- Monitoring Docker Swarm and Kubernetes environments
- Multi-host container operations
- AI-assisted log investigation and alert management
- Dozzle has approximately 50,000 active users, according to Amir's 2026 interview; the project is especially popular among self-hosting enthusiasts.