Papertrail vs Fluentd

To set Papertrail up, use NXLog, or simply direct logs to a URL provided by Papertrail. No proprietary agent.

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.

By default log events and searches in Papertrail are updated in real-time.

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).

Gives structure to unstructured logs.

Logs aren't lost due to network issues.

With a list of 150+ plugins, Fluentd can perform all kinds of in-stream data processing tasks.

Fluentd has a plugin ecosystem that has resulted in developers creating over 150 plugins for the service.

For example, inputs and outputs have built-in support for buffering, load-balancing, timeouts and retries so to be able to deliver data reliably.

Licensed under Apache 2.0.