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Papertrail vs Sematext: What are the differences?
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; Sematext: Detect and troubleshoot issues with logs, metrics, synthetic, and real user monitoring. Sematext pulls together performance monitoring, logs, user experience and synthetic monitoring that tools organizations need to troubleshoot performance issues faster.
Papertrail and Sematext can be primarily classified as "Log Management" tools.
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, Sematext provides the following key features:
- Available in the Cloud and On Premises
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Application Performance Monitoring
According to the StackShare community, Papertrail has a broader approval, being mentioned in 319 company stacks & 259 developers stacks; compared to Sematext, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
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
Pros of Sematext
- ECS integration5
- Great filtering and grouping5
- Easy to set up5
- Centralized log management5
- Vercel integration5
- Custom dashboards4
- Built-in dashboards4
- Live logging3
- Includes Kibana3
- Flexible plans2
- Full monitoring platform1
- Easy setup1
- Elasticsearch API1
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Cons of Papertrail
- Expensive2
- External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging1
Cons of Sematext
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