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
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Rapid7 InsightOps
Score 9.4 out of 10
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Rapid7 InsightOps (formerly Logentries) allows users to collect data from any source, in any format. Search and analyze logs using simple keywords or analytic functions to find answers.
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$79
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Pro
$159
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Enterprise
$279
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Free trial for Standard and Pro plans for 14 days with all features.
Loggly had the best parsing and also UI was very easy for the beginner that wants to track some logs and patterns. Anomaly pattern was very good feature. Also, alerting on Loggly was very easy to setup. The Logsense setup was very bad and painful. Sematext had very good UI, but …
We chose Loggly because we found it to be a good balance between costs, functionality, and available documentation/integrations. Logentries and PaperTrail were pretty closely tied for second place at the time. All 3 of the main contenders have been bought out by other companies …
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.
Rapid7 InsightOps has been able to highlight threats that we have been able to mitigate. It has given us data enriched graphs that can be used by technical staff to assist in strengthening our defenses against cyber threat actors It also has given us data that can be used by nontechnical staff and management for strategic decision making
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rapid7 InsightOps has much deeper integration and logging capabilities and has made the Rapid7 InsightOpssecurity of our environment an ongoing improvement. We use InsightOps' Search capabilities to discover precise, contextual information about our infrastructure. We have set up automatic notifications when important events happen within our network and domain. Rapid7 InsightOps has allowed us to create Dashboard visualizations based on our data to gain better insight into what is going on.
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.
