jetlog
A self-hostable personal flight tracker and viewer for logging and visualizing your flight history.
What is jetlog?
Jetlog is a self-hostable personal flight tracker and viewer that allows aviation enthusiasts and frequent flyers to log, visualize, and analyze their flight history. It provides an interactive world map view of flights, detailed statistics, and tools for managing flight data while maintaining complete privacy and data ownership.
Aviation enthusiasts, frequent travelers, pilots, and anyone who wants to maintain a private, self-hosted record of their flight history with visualization and analysis capabilities.
Jetlog offers complete privacy and data control through self-hosting, comprehensive flight visualization and statistics, and easy data import/export functionality—all without relying on third-party cloud services that might compromise user data.
Overview
Personal flight tracker and viewer
Use Cases
Best For
- Tracking personal flight history with privacy in mind
- Visualizing flight routes on an interactive world map
- Maintaining a private log of aviation travel
- Importing flight data from MyFlightRadar24
- Self-hosting flight tracking applications
- Analyzing flight statistics and travel patterns
Not Ideal For
- Real-time flight tracking and live status updates
- Enterprise deployments needing advanced user roles and permissions
- Casual users who prefer a no-setup, cloud-based solution
Pros & Cons
Pros
Provides an interactive world map view to visualize all flights, as demonstrated in the preview images and features list.
Supports importing from MyFlightRadar24 and CSV, and exporting to CSV and iCal, allowing easy data migration and backup as detailed in the importing wiki.
Fully self-hostable with no external data collection by default, emphasizing user privacy and data ownership as stated in the philosophy and privacy notice.
Includes secure authentication and support for multiple users, enabling shared use while maintaining data control, as listed in the features.
Cons
Features like automatic flight fetching depend on the adsbdb API, which users must opt out of for complete privacy, adding complexity and potential privacy concerns as noted in the privacy notice.
Requires Docker setup and environment variable configuration, with documentation split into a wiki, which can be daunting for non-technical users, as seen in the installation instructions.
Uses SQLite as the database, which may not scale well for large flight datasets or high numbers of concurrent users, though this is not explicitly addressed in the README.
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