Papertrail
pfornieri
Dec 6, 2018
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CommentsWhat is Papertrail?
Papertrail helps detect, resolve, and avoid infrastructure problems using log messages. Papertrail's practicality comes from our own experience as sysadmins, developers, and entrepreneurs.
Papertrail is a tool in the Log Management category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Intuitive Web-based log viewerPowerful command-line toolsLong-term archive (S3)REST APITeam-wide groups and searchesAutomated export for tables and chartsSearch alertsEasy SQL analytics (Hadoop)Unlimited systems and usersEncrypted logging
Papertrail Pros & Cons
Pros of Papertrail
- ✓Log search
- ✓Easy log aggregation across multiple machines
- ✓Integrates with Heroku
- ✓Simple interface
- ✓Backup to S3
- ✓Easy setup, independent of existing logging setup
- ✓Heroku add-on
- ✓Command line interface
- ✓Alerting
- ✓Good for Startups
Cons of Papertrail
- ✗Expensive
- ✗External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging
Papertrail Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Papertrail?
Logstash
Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). If you store them in Elasticsearch, you can view and analyze them with Kibana.
SLF4J
It is a simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) serves as a simple facade or abstraction for various logging frameworks allowing the end user to plug in the desired logging framework at deployment time.
Logback
It is intended as a successor to the popular log4j project. It is divided into three modules, logback-core, logback-classic and logback-access. The logback-core module lays the groundwork for the other two modules, logback-classic natively implements the SLF4J API so that you can readily switch back and forth between logback and other logging frameworks and logback-access module integrates with Servlet containers, such as Tomcat and Jetty, to provide HTTP-access log functionality.
