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Papertrail vs Alert Logic: What are the differences?
What is Papertrail? Hosted log management for servers, apps, and cloud services. Papertrail helps detect, resolve, and avoid infrastructure problems using log messages. Papertrail's practicality comes from our own experience as sysadmins, developers, and entrepreneurs.
What is Alert Logic? Fully managed security-as-a-service and compliance solution. Alert Logic offers SIEMless Threat Management that connects platform, intelligence, & experts to provide the best security and peace of mind for your business.
Papertrail and Alert Logic are primarily classified as "Log Management" and "Security" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Papertrail are:
- Intuitive Web-based log viewer
- Powerful command-line tools
- Long-term archive (S3)
On the other hand, Alert Logic provides the following key features:
- Threat monitoring and visibility
- Intrusion detection
- Security analytics
Pros of Alert Logic
Pros of Papertrail
- Log search85
- Easy log aggregation across multiple machines43
- Integrates with Heroku43
- Simple interface37
- Backup to S326
- Easy setup, independent of existing logging setup19
- Heroku add-on15
- Command line interface3
- Alerting1
- Good for Startups1
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Cons of Alert Logic
Cons of Papertrail
- Expensive2
- External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging1