Alert Logic vs Papertrail

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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
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Pros of Alert Logic
Pros of Papertrail
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    • 85
      Log search
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      Easy log aggregation across multiple machines
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      Integrates with Heroku
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      Simple interface
    • 26
      Backup to S3
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      Easy setup, independent of existing logging setup
    • 15
      Heroku add-on
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      Command line interface
    • 1
      Alerting
    • 1
      Good for Startups

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    Cons of Alert Logic
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        Expensive
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        External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging

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      What is Alert Logic?

      Alert Logic offers SIEMless Threat Management that connects platform, intelligence, & experts to provide the best security and peace of mind for your business.

      What 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.

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