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AWS CloudTrail vs Loggly: What are the differences?
Developers describe AWS CloudTrail as "Record AWS API calls for your account and have log files delivered to you". With CloudTrail, you can get a history of AWS API calls for your account, including API calls made via the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and higher-level AWS services (such as AWS CloudFormation). The AWS API call history produced by CloudTrail enables security analysis, resource change tracking, and compliance auditing. The recorded information includes the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, the request parameters, and the response elements returned by the AWS service. On the other hand, Loggly is detailed as "Log Management, Simplified in the Cloud". The world's most popular cloud-based log management service delivers application intelligence.
AWS CloudTrail and Loggly can be categorized as "Log Management" tools.
Some of the features offered by AWS CloudTrail are:
- Increased Visibility- CloudTrail provides increased visibility into your user activity by recording AWS API calls. You can answer questions such as, what actions did a given user take over a given time period? For a given resource, which user has taken actions on it over a given time period? What is the source IP address of a given activity? Which activities failed due to inadequate permissions?
- Durable and Inexpensive Log File Storage- CloudTrail uses Amazon S3 for log file storage and delivery, so log files are stored durably and inexpensively. You can use Amazon S3 lifecycle configuration rules to further reduce storage costs. For example, you can define rules to automatically delete old log files or archive them to Amazon Glacier for additional savings.
- Easy Administration- CloudTrail is a fully managed service
On the other hand, Loggly provides the following key features:
- See what your application is doing during development
- Catch exceptions and track execution flow
- Graph and report on the number of errors generated
"Very easy setup" is the top reason why over 6 developers like AWS CloudTrail, while over 35 developers mention "Centralized log management" as the leading cause for choosing Loggly.
Instacart, Heroku, and Accenture are some of the popular companies that use Loggly, whereas AWS CloudTrail is used by Netflix, Slack, and Seat Pagine Gialle. Loggly has a broader approval, being mentioned in 95 company stacks & 15 developers stacks; compared to AWS CloudTrail, which is listed in 38 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.
Pros of AWS CloudTrail
- Very easy setup7
- Good integrations with 3rd party tools3
- Very powerful2
- Backup to S32
Pros of Loggly
- Centralized log management37
- Easy to setup25
- Great filtering21
- Live logging16
- Json log support15
- Log Management10
- Alerting10
- Great Dashboards7
- Love the product7
- Heroku Add-on4
- Easy to setup and use2
- Easy setup2
- No alerts in free plan2
- Great UI2
- Good parsing2
- Powerful2
- Fast search2
- Backup to S32
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Cons of AWS CloudTrail
Cons of Loggly
- Pricey after free plan3
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