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| 2 Recommended Products | Recommendations | Type | Hosting options | Supported languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 Logentries· · · | 4 | 0 | aggregation & monitoring | Cloud hosted | Android / GoLang / JavaScript/HTML5 / iOS / Java / .NET / .NET Serilog / PHP Logging / Python |
| #2 Papertrail· · · | 2 | 0 | aggregation & monitoring | – | – |
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 searche...
Pro Excellent documentation
LogEntries has comprehensive documentation that's easy to read and understand and includes lots of screenshots and examples.
Pro 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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pro 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 me...
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.
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