Rocana vs Timber

Beyond simple rules-based alerting, Rocana Ops creates statistical models for each of the metrics you want to track and evaluates as data streams in to provide nearly instantaneous feedback on how your systems are performing. Unique WARN (Weighted Analytic Risk Notifications) Scores indicate components that are trending to the good or bad. Users can create custom metrics, which get evaluated just the same as "out-of-the-box" metrics.

Collect and analyze multiple TBs of data per day, built on Hadoop components Rocana Ops is a highly-distributed system offering massive scalability using commodity hardware. Rocana has customers collecting 10+ TBs of log data per day.

Rocana One free option provides up to 1TB of daily data volume for free.

The retention Timber offers is exceptionally longer. The default is generally 2 - 4 weeks, Timber offers 6 months.

Timber offers a really great simple search, with a support for advanced features like: term negation, condition grouping (parenthesis), regex, field searches and conditions, etc.

The Timber interface stands out in the space:

1. It's beautiful, easy, and modern.
2. It's fast. It uses advanced front-end technologies to maximize performance and usability (react, redux, etc).

Because Timber fully embraces structured data, graphing is simple, real time, and fast. They provide a number of aggregates you can graph on.

Timber provides native libraries that automatically attach metadata to your logs. They've designed a schema that defines events and context, which normalizes the data and makes querying, alerting, and graphing simple and reliable.

Timber can be installed in < 1 min and usually with a single command. It asks your for your application details and provides 1 set of simple instructions.

Besides the free plan, Timber doesn't impose limits on the number of users, alerts, etc. It's entirely based on the amount of data allowed for the plan. It's refreshingly straightforward.

The alerts are real-time and the approach is thoughtful. Instead of blasting you with alerts every time it's triggered, they change the state of the alert once, notify you once, and then notify you again when the alert is no longer an issue.

Timber's docs are detailed and thoughtful, both for the service as well as the libraries they offer.

Beyond the space your plan is allowed to use, there is no rate limiting.

Logs show up < 3 seconds of when they are generated

Timber allows you to SQL query your logs just like you would a traditional database. The JOIN support is very powerful.