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3 Options ConsideredPriceTypeHosting options
Logentries
aggregation & monitoringCloud hosted
Papertrail
aggregation & monitoring–
coralogix
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Logentries

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Andris Pelcbergs
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Great search 

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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 searche...
Andris Pelcbergs
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Excellent documentation 

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LogEntries has comprehensive documentation that's easy to read and understand and includes lots of screenshots and examples.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Offers an easy way of visualizing data via graphs 

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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 d...
Andris Pelcbergs
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Free up to 5 GB 

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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.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Supports a diverse set of programming languages 

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Including Java, .Net, Ruby, PHP, node.js, Python.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Supports the most popular programming frameworks 

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Supports the most popular programming frameworks, including Ruby and node.js.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Real-time alerts

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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. Notifi...
Andris Pelcbergs
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Real-time tagging makes reading logs easier

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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.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Event and search updates can be viewed in real-time 

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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 qu...
Andris Pelcbergs
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Grouping is unsorted and limited 

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Eg. you can't really check what browsers people use, because the report is limited to 40 unique strings.
Andris Pelcbergs
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There's a limit of 100 logs per server 

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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.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Character limit for each log entry 

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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.
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Papertrail

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Logs can be colorized via third-party software

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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 mes...
Andris Pelcbergs
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Simple interface 

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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.
Andris Pelcbergs
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No built-in graphing  

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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.
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coralogix

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Automatic data clustering (AKA Loggregation)

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Ariel Assaraf
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Integrates to Heroku Pipelines

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Coralogix integrates with Heroku pipelines and creates an automatic quality status for each build done on Heroku.
Ariel Assaraf
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Automatic data clustering

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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.
Ariel Assaraf
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Hosted Kibana

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On top its own log query, alerts, and live tail, Coralogix provides a fully hosted Kibana for dashboard creation and elasticsearch querying.
Ariel Assaraf
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Automatic log flow anomaly detection

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Coralogix maps software flows and automatically detects production problems
Ariel Assaraf
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Centralized Live Tail

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Real time live tail from all servers + filtering options
Ariel Assaraf
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Alerts to email/Slack

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Activity / Inactivity alerts to email or slack rooms
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