What are the best logging add-ons for Heroku?

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Best logging add-ons for Heroku	Price	Type	Hosting options
-- Logentries	-	aggregation & monitoring	Cloud hosted
-- Papertrail	-	aggregation & monitoring	aggregation & monitoring
-- coralogix	-	–	–

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Logentries

Top Pro

Great search

LogEntries has human readable, intuitive and powerful search with support for logical expressions, comparison expressions, regular expressions and ability to search based on field, group based on approximations over time, use functions such as count, sum, average and unique as well as save searches. See More

Top Con

Grouping is unsorted and limited

Eg. you can't really check what browsers people use, because the report is limited to 40 unique strings. See More

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Type:aggregation & monitoring

Hosting options:Cloud hosted

Supported languages:Android / GoLang / JavaScript/HTML5 / iOS / Java / .NET / .NET Serilog / PHP Logging / Python

Integrations:AppEngine / AppFog / AppHarbor / Azure / Cisco / Cloud 66 / CloudBees / CloudControl / Engine Yard / Heroku / Jelastic / Joyent / Nodejitsu / OpenShift / Fastly / AWS (S3 / Archiving / CloudWatch) / DataHub / CloudTrail

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Excellent documentation

LogEntries has comprehensive documentation that's easy to read and understand and includes lots of screenshots and examples. See More

Top Con

There's a limit of 100 logs per server

Should you have a webserver that hosts many sites, you'll hit this undocumented limit. The token-based alternative solution is inconvenient to set up and maintain. See More

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Offers an easy way of visualizing data via graphs

LogEntries allows each logfile to have a separate dashboard of various graphs & widgets put together for visualizing data. A dashboard is put together by dragging & dropping graphs and widgets into place. Graphs and widgets include charts, tables, gauges, event counts among other forms of data visualization. See More

Top Con

Character limit for each log entry

Currently log entries are limited to 8192 characters, if your log entry runs over this amount then it will be truncated where the excess log will be a new entry in the UI. This can easily cause a problem JSON structure with java stacktraces. See More

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Free up to 5 GB

Logentries free product allows uploading up to 5 GB of logs a month and has a 7-day retention period. The free product is available after the 30-day trial ends. See More

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Supports a diverse set of programming languages

Including Java, .Net, Ruby, PHP, node.js, Python. See More

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Supports the most popular programming frameworks

Supports the most popular programming frameworks, including Ruby and node.js. See More

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Real-time alerts

Alerts can be created based on tags or by setting criteria via the intuitive and powerful search capabilities of LogEntries. To not flood notifications it's possible to specify limitations for alerts, such as how many times an hour an event has to happen for it to trigger a notification. Notifications can be sent by email, mobile messaging or via webhooks (webhooks are sent server in real-time, so there's no need for polling for changes). See More

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Real-time tagging makes reading logs easier

Colored indicators can be set that highlight events in a log in real-time based on given criteria. Criteria are set via intuitive and powerful search capabilities of LogEntries. See More

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Event and search updates can be viewed in real-time

In Live Tail mode events and searches update in real-time. Live Tail mode can be used in Aggregate View, that allows selecting a combination of logfiles to be viewed together, and with any log groups created. These events are supplemented with tags to allows getting an overview of current events quickly at a glance. See More

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Papertrail

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Logs can be colorized via third-party software

Logs can be colorized by installing Stylish, a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that overrides CSS stylesheets, and writing a custom stylesheet. Papertrail's log entries have various attributes that can be used to change css properties for specific programs or systems, or based on message contents. Logs can also be colorized within the actual logs by adding ANSI escape codes (will override user-specific colorization). See More

Top Con

No built-in graphing

Papertrail can integrate with Librato Metrics and StatHat to graph event occurrence count over time, but there's no built-in way to visualize data. See More

Specs

Type:aggregation & monitoring

Top Pro

Simple interface

The default view is mostly taken up by log events with a small row at the bottom for entering a search query, setting date range, accessing saved searches and enabling or disabling real-time logging. See More

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coralogix

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Automatic data clustering (AKA Loggregation)

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Integrates to Heroku Pipelines

Coralogix integrates with Heroku pipelines and creates an automatic quality status for each build done on Heroku. See More

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Automatic data clustering

Coralogix’s automatically clusters Heroku log data back into its original patterns and modules the log variables so that it is possible to view hours of data in a few minutes and drill into specific patterns or variables. See More

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Hosted Kibana

On top its own log query, alerts, and live tail, Coralogix provides a fully hosted Kibana for dashboard creation and elasticsearch querying. See More

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Automatic log flow anomaly detection

Coralogix maps software flows and automatically detects production problems See More

What are the best logging add-ons for Heroku?

3 Options Considered

Logentries

My Recommendation for Logentries

My Recommendation for Logentries

Great search

Grouping is unsorted and limited

Excellent documentation

There's a limit of 100 logs per server

Offers an easy way of visualizing data via graphs

Character limit for each log entry

Free up to 5 GB

Supports a diverse set of programming languages

Supports the most popular programming frameworks

Real-time alerts

Real-time tagging makes reading logs easier

Event and search updates can be viewed in real-time

Papertrail

My Recommendation for Papertrail

My Recommendation for Papertrail

Logs can be colorized via third-party software

No built-in graphing

Simple interface

coralogix

My Recommendation for coralogix

My Recommendation for coralogix

Automatic data clustering (AKA Loggregation)

Integrates to Heroku Pipelines

Automatic data clustering

Hosted Kibana

Automatic log flow anomaly detection

Centralized Live Tail

Alerts to email/Slack

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