Logentries vs Loggly vs Papertrail

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Logentries

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Loggly

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Papertrail

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Pros of Logentries
Pros of Loggly
Pros of Papertrail
  • 34
    Log search
  • 27
    Live logs
  • 19
    Easy setup
  • 14
    Heroku Add-on
  • 5
    Backup to S3
  • 2
    Easy setup, independent of existing logging setup
  • 2
    Free
  • 2
    Search/query with regex
  • 0
    E
  • 37
    Centralized log management
  • 25
    Easy to setup
  • 21
    Great filtering
  • 16
    Live logging
  • 15
    Json log support
  • 10
    Log Management
  • 10
    Alerting
  • 7
    Great Dashboards
  • 7
    Love the product
  • 4
    Heroku Add-on
  • 2
    Easy to setup and use
  • 2
    Easy setup
  • 2
    No alerts in free plan
  • 2
    Great UI
  • 2
    Good parsing
  • 2
    Powerful
  • 2
    Fast search
  • 2
    Backup to S3
  • 85
    Log search
  • 43
    Easy log aggregation across multiple machines
  • 43
    Integrates with Heroku
  • 37
    Simple interface
  • 26
    Backup to S3
  • 19
    Easy setup, independent of existing logging setup
  • 15
    Heroku add-on
  • 3
    Command line interface
  • 1
    Alerting
  • 1
    Good for Startups

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Cons of Logentries
Cons of Loggly
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    • 3
      Pricey after free plan
    • 2
      Expensive
    • 1
      External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging

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    What is Logentries?

    Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes. With the broadest platform support and an open API, Logentries brings the value of log-level data to any system, to any team member, and to a community of more than 25,000 worldwide users.

    What is Loggly?

    It is a SaaS solution to manage your log data. There is nothing to install and updates are automatically applied to your Loggly subdomain.

    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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