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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SolarWinds Loggly

    Score7.7 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Loggly is a cloud-based log management service provider. It does not require the use of proprietary software agents to collect log data. The service uses open source technologies, including ElasticSearch, Apache Lucene 4 and Apache Kafka.

    $79

    per month/billed annually

    PagerDuty

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/APagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) provides digital operations management. Serving organizations of all sizes, PagerDuty aims to help them deliver a perfect digital experience to their customers, every time.

    $25

    per month per user

    Pricing
    SolarWinds LogglyPagerDuty
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $79
    per month/billed annually
    Pro
    $159
    per month/billed annually
    Enterprise
    $279
    per month/billed annually
    Professional
    $25
    per month per user
    Business
    $49
    per month per user
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    SolarWinds LogglyPagerDuty
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFree trial for Standard and Pro plans for 14 days with all features.Discount available for annual pricing.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    SolarWinds LogglyPagerDuty
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (48 ratings)
    8.6
    (173 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (7 ratings)
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (86 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SolarWinds LogglyPagerDuty
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds Loggly is great for capturing and organizing logs from 3rd party sources such as NGINX. Without SolarWinds Loggly it's really difficult to manage the logs overtime, find traffic patterns, and identify issues before they become a problem. Anyone who is routinely searching through massive log files could quickly benefit from the SolarWinds Loggly and it's capabilities.
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    PagerDuty
    To be sincere, PagerDuty is a powerful, intelligent, and dependable on-call and incident management tool that provides amazing solutions to our company. Therefore, if someone is looking for reliability and accuracy in incident management, I will not hesitate to recommend PagerDuty. It is easy to use, and it will give you value for money.
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    Pros
    SolarWinds
    • Putting our logs in one place and making them searchable. We use AWS, and CloudWatch has always been a little frustrating in this regard (though it has gotten better recently).
    • Deriving metrics from our logs. I think log-based metrics is such a good idea because your logs are the ultimate source for truth in regards to what the hell is going on inside your app. I have really loved the simplicity with which I can just count certain statements and call that a metric because just through the normal course of development certain log statements just naturally become a straightforward recording of an event having occurred.
    • Alerts. I actually have a few complaints about email alerts, but just the way I was able to set them up so easily has been huge. Since we started using Loggly, there have been at least 3 bugs that Loggly exposed that were frankly very bad. And withoutt Loggly or without a user reporting them, we would have never known they were happening! This is stuff I tried to set up in CloudWatch in various ways, but because of my own ignorance or perhaps the complexity/limitations of CloudWatch (or the complexity of my stack?), I wasn't getting the information that I needed until I was able to just tell Loggly to send me an email whenever the word "error" showed up.
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    PagerDuty
    • PagerDuty sends the alerts set on high severity incidents on time and never misses any single instance.
    • PagerDuty help to send alert to mobile calls and Team channel for outage.
    • PagerDuty also resolves some of the high severity incidents as part of self healing mechanism.
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    Cons
    SolarWinds
    • Not all searches are intuitive.
    • We have to use a log aggregating device to ship our logs to Loggly as our network devices can not connect on an encrypted protocol. I would prefer if we could use some sort of VPN-based connector to ship logs securely.
    • Sometimes when drilled down, it can be difficult to fully reset a search term to back all the way out of a drill down.
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    PagerDuty
    • When I open PagerDuty the page does look a little cluttered or busy.
    • It would be nice to go to the page with clear and straightforward instructions on what I must address.
    • Ability to change the color background.
    • Add a timer and alarms for tasks that need completed.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SolarWinds
    Management is not open to having an agent sending the data to the cloud instance.
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    PagerDuty
    They have been rock solid for us thus far and are not very expensive and to be honest no time to evaluate other software at this point.
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    Usability
    SolarWinds
    Loggly's easy setup, very good customer support, and intuitive interface make Loggly very easy to use. User access management is also very easy as we can tailor the experience for each of our developers to access the information they need without having to wade through other information. While there was a slight learning curve in how to view the logs the way some specifically wanted, everything was possible and quite easy to do.
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    PagerDuty
    The UI is more complex than I would like. Part of the challenge is that most users use PagerDuty infrequently; I don't remember how I changed a policy last time. Another part of the challenge is that some users expect alerting to be a trivial feature, and are reluctant to invest any time in reading the documentation.
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    Support Rating
    SolarWinds
    The support team have been great when we have logged tickets or had issues, most of the time it is down to user training, however we have had a couple of bugs that they have been able to iron out for us.
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    PagerDuty
    PagerDuty is reliable and easy to set up. It gives an effective way to notify the team about critical incidents which results in a faster turnaround time on issues. users can customize their alerts rules based on their preferences. Overall it's effective and easy to use which adds great business value.
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    Implementation Rating
    SolarWinds
    It has good architecture, which focus on ese of use.
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    PagerDuty
    When I setup notifications to PD thru the Python API I was impressed with the ease with which I could set up the software/service.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SolarWinds
    We were using Zabbix. While it is an open-source solution that you can install for free the following things were limitations of the solution. 1) The scale and uptime of the solution are now your own problem. Since we were hosting at AWS this meant we still had a cost of the AWS solution. 2) The product is complicated from a configuration standpoint. In order to get anything meaningful out of it, you had to invest a lot of time and effort. We did consider NewRelic. I have experience with that product and do think that it is a solid alternative. Ultimately experience with the simplicity and speed of deployment with Loggly encouraged me to suggest using this again.
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    PagerDuty
    OpsGenie was useful, mainly for teams already using Atlassian tools, and xMatters was good for handling team communication during incidents, but PagerDuty felt more complete for managing the full incident process in one place. We went with PagerDuty because it manages alerts, escalations, and on-call duties in a more organized and dependable way, which fits better with how our teams work daily.
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    Return on Investment
    SolarWinds
    • Unfortunately, we hit our logging cap on a weekly basis and we lose logs after that.
    • We have lost logs after hitting the maximum during service outages. We have become accustomed to not being able to rely on having them, then things go poorly.
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    PagerDuty
    • Allow our service to be available 24/7 with minimal downtime, improving customer experience
    • Monitor incidents and allow us to customize/schedule alert notifications, making engineers' jobs easier and preventing turnover
    • Prevent SEVs that could deteriorate, bring down our service, and cost us millions of dollars from loss in bookings
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    PagerDuty Screenshots

    Screenshot of Similar Incidents [Apple iPad], Open Incidents [iPhone 8], On-Call Schedule Menu [Apple Watch])Screenshot of the Machine Learning with Technical Service Dependencies, used to better understand related incidents.Screenshot of a glimpse of service health and team performance via PagerDuty’s Intelligent Dashboards.