Logentries vs Cloudlytics

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).

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

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.

Logentries works with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, AppFog, Engine Yard and other platform as a service (PaaS) providers, along with Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure and other infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers.

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.

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

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.

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.

Logentries can be set up quickly and with relative ease.

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.

Unlike Loggly, LogEntries displays timestamps in your timezone. You don't even have to configure anything.

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

Answer incidents pretty quickly.

Easy to get information fast with integrated dashboards. Also I can change as I want easy by rewriting query

CloudFront analytics allows tracking what content is accessed and organize requests based on origin, amount, data transfered, OS/device/browser used, time, etc.

Cloudlytics can be used to analyze CloutTrail's API calls to understand the geographical origin of requests and identifying unauthorized access attempts.

Provides tools for analyzing bills.

Can schedule turning EC2 instances on and off to optimize resource cost.

Allows setting expenditure threshold values that will trigger an alert if a bill of a service has consumed 80%, 100% or more of set threshold.

Cloudlytics provides insight into requests made to load balancer, including average response time, request path, server responses and client IP addresses.

Usage of development and test environments can be optimized via scheduler. EC2 instances can be turned off when not needed.

The free trial lasts a month and allows uploading 200 MB of logs.

Cloudlytics can gather logs from Amazon's S3, CloudFront, CloudTrail and ELB services and provide insight into access patterns, API calls, requests made to load balancer as well as identify unauthorized access attempts, spam attacks, and help manage expenditure.

Cloud audit can be turned on via CloudTrail. It allows identifying unauthorized access attempts, IP addresses and request statuses.

Spam Reports can be used to identify possible spam requests and the IP address making them.

Custom reports can be used to get insights for specific needs. For example, it's possible to add filters for parameters like edge locations, status, URL query etc. on various available fields like total requests, edge result type.