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Papertrail vs Timber.io: What are the differences?
Developers describe Papertrail as "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. On the other hand, Timber.io is detailed as "Automatically convert logs from messy, hard-to-use, raw text to rich, useful, clean events". Timber.io is a cloud based logging platform, specifically engineered for Ruby, Elixir and Node apps. It automatically structures your log data with it's open source packages, makes the lines readable, adds valuable context, and lets you easily create graphs and alerts from your logs.
Papertrail and Timber.io can be primarily classified as "Log Management" tools.
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 Papertrail
- Expensive2
- External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging1
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